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Back to Search135 Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)
Hollywood screenwriter and professional script doctor Brian Price, author of Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting: Aristotle and the…
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134 The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life
We use the term Kafkaesque to describe bureaucracies and other social institutions with nightmarishly complex, illogical, or bizarre qualities - and …
8 years, 2 months ago
133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey)
Ever wonder how fiction works? Or what great literature can teach us about writing? Novelist Margot Livesey returns to the show for a discussion of h…
8 years, 2 months ago
132 Top 10 Literary Villains
Villains! Bad guys ! Femme fatales! We love them in movies - but what about literature? What makes villains so effective (and so essential)? What do …
8 years, 3 months ago
131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenberg and Anthony Valerio)
Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the greatest poet of his era and one of the greatest artists of all time. His masterpiece, the Divine Co…
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130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) began her career as a poet of love and ended it as the poet of suffering and heartbreak, thanks in no small part to the to…
8 years, 3 months ago
129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with Mike Palindrome and Reagan Sova)
Every year, the Super Bowl draws over 100 million viewers in the U.S. alone, and the Olympics and World Cup will be watched by billions around the wo…
8 years, 4 months ago
128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Palindrome)
Continuing our look at animals in literature, we’re joined by Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, for a discussion of the T…
8 years, 4 months ago
127 Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) would be essential to the history of literature had she never written a word – but she did write words, lots of them, an…
8 years, 4 months ago
126 Animals in Literature (Part One)
Inspired by a listener’s heartfelt request, we take a look at an often overlooked subject: animals in literature. In this episode, a precursor to a f…
8 years, 4 months ago