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Indie Publishing, Ft. Neon Hemlock
What's more literary than talking about one piece of literature? Talking about the very nexus from which literature flows!
Today we sat down with Dave…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
On the Narrative Battle: Hamilton, Rightwing Media, ICE's Lies, and More
Welcome to Workers' Lit, your favorite show about the battle for narrative.
Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
Today we talk about our focus as a show …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
United States of Banana, ft. Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
9/11, Hamlet, the Statue of Liberty, Segismundo, Zoroastrianism, Puerto Rican Independence, Bananas: If you hear all those terms and think, “wow, thi…
6 months ago
On Donald Trump: A Year In Review
We are officially one year into Donald Trump’s second term. How’s everybody feeling?
This week we discuss the nightmare 365 days that have passed, the…
6 months ago
The Great Gatsby, ft, Joshua Ilon of the Penumbra Podcast
It’s time to get real old-sporty
This week we narrowly avoided death-by-pool to deliver you a discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 gilded age mast…
6 months, 1 week ago
On ICE: The State's Fascist Thugs
It's time to break the ICE.
Jen and Jacob discuss the dramatic week that's passed since the murder of Renée Nicole Good, the latest stats on ICE, Trum…
6 months, 1 week ago
T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland,” ft. The Eclectic Radical
April is the cruelest month, but it’s January so we should be good.
Today we’re discussing T.S. Eliot’s 1922 modernist poetic masterpiece, “The Wastel…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
On Venezuela: A Discussion with Vijay Prashad
Author and Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad, returns to the show to discuss the United States' k…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
LA Confidential, ft. Brian Wishart
It's crime time.
We're ringing in 2026 with James Ellroy's 1990 work of nasty neo noir, "LA Confidential." And we're mad about it! Why are there so ma…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The War Crimes Episode: Nigeria, Venezuela, and the Crimes of American Empire
We took a weeklong break from talking about the news, but it's time to get back into the doings of the United States government...namely, starting ne…
6 months, 3 weeks ago