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Back to SearchAndrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
Episode 29
How does analyzing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the fir…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
Episode 64
Cuban resourcefulness is on full display in Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke 2020), as sociologist Sujatha Fernandes presents an …
1 year, 9 months ago
Nick Yablon, "Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Episode 64
In Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Nick Yablon traces the birth of the time cap…
1 year, 10 months ago
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Episode 165
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (U Hawaii Press, 2024) examines three dy…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 1527
In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Dr. Lisa Jacobson re…
1 year, 10 months ago
Johny Brown, "Corpse Flower" (Skill, 2024)
Episode 204
From the frontman of Band of Holy Joy, Johny Brown, Corpse Flower (Skill, 2024), is a long-form prose poem that shares Brown's journey through one of…
1 year, 10 months ago
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
Episode 203
Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump (Spring, 2024) is Randy Fertel’s third book, his second on improvisation. Creating somet…
1 year, 10 months ago
Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 226
As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—…
1 year, 10 months ago
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Episode 205
Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the po…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jeremy Dauber, "American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond" (Algonquin Books, 2024)
Episode 287
From the acclaimed author of American Comics comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in America…
1 year, 10 months ago