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Back to SearchLiterary Nomads for Students
3 Oct 2025
Episode 0.2 - Literary Nomads for Students
What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Noma…
6 months, 1 week ago
Literary Nomads for Readers
26 Sept 2025
Episode 0.1 - Literary Nomads for Readers
What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nom…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Le Guin – What I Carry With Me
19 Sept 2025
Episode 6.14 - Le Guin - What I Carry With Me
Now that we’ve wrestled in and with Omelas for a bit, what questions remain for us t…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
12 Sept 2025
Episode 6.13 - Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant–or r…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin
5 Sept 2025
Episode 6.12 - Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay - N. K. Jemisin
Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more leve…
7 months ago
Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth
29 Aug 2025
Episode 6.11 - Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth
Sure, the Omelas dilemma is tough, but at least we have our narrator as ally, righ…
7 months, 1 week ago
Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness
22 Aug 2025
Episode 6.10 - Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness
Is this story really about that suffering child? Or is it more about how we wall it…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
15 Aug 2025
Episode 6.09 - Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
At last we settle in to think about Le Guin’s Omelas story and set aside some common appro…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias
8 Aug 2025
Episode 6.08 - Gardens of Imagination - Narrative Utopias
Let’s niche down into a small sub-genre of fantasy and explore our desire for i…
8 months ago
In Defense of Fantasy
1 Aug 2025
Episode 6.07 - In Defense of Fantasy
Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Gu…
8 months, 1 week ago