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Back to SearchLe 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…
11 months 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…
11 months, 1 week 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…
11 months, 2 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…
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
1 year ago
Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
25 July 2025
Episode 6.06 - Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
What do a children’s story and horror film have in com…
1 year ago
Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
18 July 2025
Episode 6.05 - Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Ch…
1 year ago
Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
11 July 2025
Episode 6.04 - Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Still another famous writer has posed the Le Guin question…
1 year ago
Otium and The Moral Philosopher – William James
4 July 2025
Episode 6.03 - Otium and The Moral Philosopher - William James
Le Guin leans on an essay by William James, but what does that have to do…
1 year ago
Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium
27 June 2025
Episode 5.18 Marvell’s Garden and Ours: Otium
Speaking of links back to Andrew Marvell’s poetry–weren’t we?–we add a new concept into o…
1 year, 1 month ago