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Back to SearchPhilip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 155
The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (Bloomsbury, 2025) a new addition to the Object Le…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
Episode 207
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a boo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 166
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique app…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 237
From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention…
1 year, 8 months ago
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 268
The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Katie Beisel Hollenbach reconsi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jeff Gomez, "There Was No Alternative: Generation X, AIDS, and the Making of a Classic Nineties Record" (McFarland, 2023)
Episode 267
Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and slackers were everywhere. When the Red Hot organi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Martin D. Brown et al., "The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 1542
James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
Episode 283
John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation's most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling sp…
1 year, 8 months ago
Neil Fox, "Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 33
In Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2024), Dr. Neil Fox considers a broad …
1 year, 8 months ago
Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)
Episode 206
Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam (Feral House, 2025) uncovers a forgotten yet fascinating chapter on glam rock music and culture...fro…
1 year, 9 months ago