Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSamantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
Episode 119
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through spa…
2 years, 5 months ago
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Episode 26
As per William Shakespeare, ‘all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage of th…
2 years, 5 months ago
"The Sun" Magazine: A Chat with Derek Askey
Episode 4
Derek Askey is an associate editor on staff at The Sun magazine, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
What qualifies as a Sun essay? As noted by my…
2 years, 5 months ago
"Solstice" Magazine: A Discussion with Richard Hoffman
Episode 3
Richard Hoffman is the creative nonfiction editor at Solstice and is the author of seven books, including two memoirs and four books of poetry. He’s …
2 years, 5 months ago
Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023)
Episode 432
How do fiction and research intersect? In The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2023), Beth Driscoll, an Associate …
2 years, 5 months ago
Bill Meiners, "Sport Literate" and "Game: A Sport Literate Anthology" (2023)
Episode 2
William Meiners is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He created Sport Literate as a graduate student at Columbia Coll…
2 years, 5 months ago
"n+1" Magazine: A Discussion with Dayna Tortorici
Episode 1
Dayna Tororici is the co-editor of n + 1 magazine, located in New York City. She’s been on staff for the past 10 years, following her studies at Brow…
2 years, 5 months ago
Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
Episode 60
John Gower’s "Confessio Amantis" ("The Lover’s Confession") is one of the most important English works of the fourteenth century. Within its frame of…
2 years, 5 months ago
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
Episode 431
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic (LSU Press, 2023) by Dr. Cassander L. Smith examines the means through which people of African des…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 157
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are probably history’s most famous folklorists. Their collection of folk tales – the Children’s and Household Tales – is one …
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