Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Episode 205
Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the po…
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Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 255
In Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2024), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative histor…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
Episode 287
From the acclaimed author of American Comics comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in America…
1 year, 6 months ago
Booksellers’ Best 2024
Episode 148
Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 7 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 256
This episode features Daniel Majchrowicz, Associate Professor of South Asian Literature & Culture at Northwestern University, discussing his new book…
1 year, 6 months ago
“I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”
Episode 55
Eighteenth century prison break artist and folk hero Jack Sheppard is among history’s most frequently adapted rogues: his exploits have inspired Dani…
1 year, 6 months ago
Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 290
Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union (Columbia UP, 2024) examines political relations and literary translatio…
1 year, 6 months ago
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 20
In James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues (Oxford University Press, 2024), Tom Jenks follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the patte…
1 year, 6 months ago
Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
Episode 324
Margaret Ziolkowski’s Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building (University of Wyoming Press, 2022) reveals…
1 year, 6 months ago
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1520
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for …
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