Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBarbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 142
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her con…
10 months ago
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Episode 177
In the October 12, 2023 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg offered an annotated list of the 100 greatest film books of all time. Drawing…
10 months, 1 week ago
Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!
Episode 47
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 8, “Charm Offensive” and episode 9, “La Chico…
10 months, 1 week ago
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 142
From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that repr…
10 months, 1 week ago
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
Episode 155
In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” A decade later Stephen King’s The Shining landed on the di…
10 months, 1 week ago
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
Episode 163
In his new book B-Sides: A Flipsided History of Pop (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music would be a different…
10 months, 1 week ago
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 102
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show beca…
10 months, 1 week ago
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Episode 118
Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal.…
10 months, 1 week ago
How to Fix Baseball with author Jane Leavy
Episode 1561
For hard-core baseball folks, for anyone who cares for the future of the game, veteran baseball writer Jane Leavy compels attention with her provocat…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1562
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today, I speak with Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, author of the new artist’s biography Lin-Manu…
10 months, 2 weeks ago