Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBook Talk 65 Emily Dickinson, with Sharon Cameron
We need Emily Dickinson’s startling originality today more than ever. This is why I sat down with Sharon Cameron, one of the greatest commentators on…
1 year, 2 months ago
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 387
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on …
1 year, 2 months ago
Reading Parties: A Discussion with Ben Bradbury, Founder of "Reading Rhythms"
Episode 114
In this podcast interview, Richard Lucas hosts Ben Bradbury, founder of Reading Rhythms, to discuss the back story leading to founding Ben's his uniq…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nora Gold, "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages" (Cherry Orchard, 2023)
Episode 634
18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages (Cherry Orchard, 2023) is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: …
1 year, 2 months ago
Jina B. Kim, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 59
In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-col…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Great Gatsby is an American Dystopia
Episode 29
It’s the UConn Popcast, and on the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, we explore what The Great Gatsby means in America today.…
1 year, 2 months ago
9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper
Episode 60
What work can genre do today? And can the genre system become more than a method of reductive containment and market segmentation—can it be a generat…
1 year, 2 months ago
Christian Sheppard, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer's Odyssey to the World Series" (Greenleaf, 2025)
Who are you, how are you supposed to live, and what about happiness? Answers to age-old questions are offered in classic myths about heroes, gods, an…
1 year, 2 months ago
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 34
The beguiling ruins of Rome have a long history of allure. They first engaged the attention of later mediaeval tourists, just as they do today. The i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Elana Wolff, "Faithfully Seeking Franz" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
Episode 478
The itinerary of Faithfully Seeking Franz comprises an irregular quest for dead mentor, modernist author Franz Kafka--in places he lived, worked, vac…
1 year, 2 months ago