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Back to SearchNoah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 27
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “coun…
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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
Episode 473
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Coun…
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Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 271
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultura…
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Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 62
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediae…
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Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Episode 60
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
Episode 2
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The r…
1 year, 10 months ago
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that dramatic narratives about mon…
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Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Episode 98
In this episode, I speak with Marc Redfield, professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies at Brown University about his most rece…
1 year, 10 months ago
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
Episode 540
"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red an…
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Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 257
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Ba…
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