Best Laura Wilkinson Podcasts (2024)

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271: Tracey & Pierce Wilkinson 51:31

36m ago51:31

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The tranquillity of Norton Road in Stourbridge was abruptly disrupted on the morning of March 30, 2017, by a loud crash. Residents peered out of their windows to find a Land Rover had collided with a stone wall. From the wreckage, a man emerged, covered in blood—though none of it was his own. SPONSORS - Mochi Health: If you’re on a journey to lose …

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Introducing the Jordan Harbinger Show 2:47

21h ago2:47

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The Jordan Harbinger Show is an award winning interview podcast with intriguing guests, especially for us True Crime enthusiasts. I've been a dedicated listener for years and hope you enjoy it too.By Morbidology

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Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023) 1:13:53

20m ago1:13:53

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Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not usually associated with Soviet literature, yet an entire body of work produced between the October Revolution and the Stalinist Great Terror was constructed around them. In Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Format…

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Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024) 1:04:18

20m ago1:04:18

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Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the …

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Literatures beyond the West 1:20:38

14m ago1:20:38

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In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Ian Almond about his work in world literature, including his 2021 book World Literature Decentered which looks at literature beyond the idea of the West. Ian is professor of World Literature at Georgetown University, whose work asks what it would mean to do literary study that embraces the non-West not as a re…

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Scott Talks to Ryan Stramrood 18:59

2h ago18:59

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What if you hit a wall while swimming across the English channel and felt it was impossible to go on? Ryan Strm Rd, multiple Guinness Book, World record holder, inspirational speaker, world-renowned, extreme swimmer, author, and single dad, still had four hours to swim. And he knew that if he put so much his one hand on the support boat running alo…

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Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024) 57:58

7h ago57:58

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Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s writings have greatly influenced Persian Sufism, but what do we know of him as a thinker? Engaging his diverse writings from poetry to stories, Cyrus Ali Zargar’s Religion of Live: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ‘Attar (SUNY Press, 2024) captures for us some of ‘Attar’s worldviews, especially as it…

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166 Transforming Inclusive Employment: The Role of BASE In Changing Attitudes With Laura Davis 17:25

10h ago17:25

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Collaboration can speed up change, but it requires coordination and management to make that happen. This week’s guest Laura Davis, Chief Executive of the British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) knows all about this. In this episode, she not only shares her personal journey but also discusses the pivotal role BASE plays in championing em…

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Ryan Stramrood - The Only Ice Swimmer In The Room 58:19

7d ago58:19

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What if you hit a wall while swimming across the English channel and felt it was impossible to go on? Ryan Strm Rd, multiple Guinness Book, World record holder, inspirational speaker, world-renowned, extreme swimmer, author, and single dad, still had four hours to swim. And he knew that if he put so much his one hand on the support boat running alo…

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Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:04:36

1d ago1:04:36

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Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the importance of Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity through the lenses of performance, entertainment, and spectacle. Laura Lieber proposes an account of hymnody as a performative and theatrical genre, combining religious…

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Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022) 1:09:10

27m ago1:09:10

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Dalpat Rajpurohit's book Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry (Rajkamal, 2022) explores the making and lifespan of a religious community in early modern India. Demonstrating fresh perspectives on how to speak historically about the Hindi literary past it questions the categorization of Hindi literature into the bin…

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270: Laura Dickinson 54:36

1h ago54:36

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Laura Dickinson’s friends were becoming concerned after they hadn’t seen her for a couple of days. She was a student at Eastern Michigan University, and people had started to notice a stench coming from her dorm room… SPONSORS - Mochi Health: If you're on a journey to lose ewight, it's time to take a holistic approach with Mochi Health. Use the cod…

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Scott Talks to Apolo Ohno 17:46

7d ago17:46

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America’s most decorated Winter Olympian, short track speed skater, Apolo Ohno, began full-time training at age thirteen, and the following year, he became the youngest U.S. National Champion. But what would you do if, after dedicating your teenage and young adult years to your sport, you found yourself ready to retire, but there was no process in …

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Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023) 53:04

13d ago53:04

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In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world t…

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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023) 55:36

1h ago55:36

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Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Clarkson Potter, 2023), honors her kitchen ghosts, five generations of Black Appalachian women. She contends, “The concept of the kitchen ghost came to me years ago, when I realized that my …

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165 Building Employer Relationships That Benefit Everyone with Andrea Randall-Smith from Little Gate 13:50

13h ago13:50

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Having more opportunities for paid work for young people with additional needs relies on finding more employers to offer those opportunities. In this episode Andrea Randall-Smith from Little Gate explains the strategies they use to manage the relationships with the employers they work with to ensure more of these opportunities become available. She…

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Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) 43:53

8d ago43:53

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Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heath…

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Apolo Ohno - The Only Winter Olympic Athlete With 8 Medals Dedicating His Life To Uplifting Mental Health And Awareness 55:58

8d ago55:58

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America’s most decorated Winter Olympian, short track speed skater, Apolo Ohno, began full-time training at age thirteen, and the following year, he became the youngest U.S. National Champion. But what would you do if, after dedicating your teenage and young adult years to your sport, you found yourself ready to retire, but there was no process in …

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Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making" (SUNY Press, 2020) 1:10:56

1d ago1:10:56

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Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical no…

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Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024) 50:05

1d ago50:05

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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaeval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a mediaeval narrator – including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator – introducing various asp…

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269: Joe Clyde Daniels 1:00:48

1d ago1:00:48

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It was around 6:30AM when the phone at the 911 dispatch centre in Dickson, Tennessee, buzzed. On the other end of the line was a man. He said that his autistic and non-verbal son had “escaped.” SPONSORS - Prolon: Prolon is a groundbreaking plant-based nutrition program designed to nourish your body while tricking cells into a fasting state. Get 10%…

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Introducing: World of Secrets – The Apartheid Killer 5:11

14d ago5:11

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Introducing a NEW investigation from the BBC’s World of Secrets podcast: The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. They were killed during a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, in the South African city of East London – by one person. He killed so many,…

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From CEO to Community Leader: Larry Campbell’s Journey from CD Group to Corners Outreach 38:02

1d ago38:02

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In this episode, we sit down with Larry Campbell, the visionary former CEO of CD Group, who made a remarkable transition from the corporate world to community-focused impact. After selling CD Group in 2016, Larry redirected his energy into Corners Outreach, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering Atlanta's underserved students of color and their famili…

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Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023) 46:09

2d ago46:09

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when…

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Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023) 39:02

2d ago39:02

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In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The recent COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 laid bare the vulnerabilities in existing funding structures, highlighting just how fragile these lifelines can be. Coupled with a surge in social initiatives that de…

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Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020) 1:06:27

3d ago1:06:27

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In this episode, I speak with Marc Redfield, professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies at Brown University about his most recent work, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan, published in 2020 by Fordham University Press. In this short but intricate and dense work, Redfield investigates the “shibboleth”—the word, if it is one, an…

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Scott Talks to Roderick Sewell 18:30

12d ago18:30

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Imagine growing up with prosthetics from the thighs down. Paralympic athlete Roderick Sewell was born missing his tibia in both legs, and he and his mother experienced homelessness for several years, starting when he was just eight years old. So what would you do if, at age ten, you felt a freedom you’d never before known - in the water? Would you …

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Episode 7: Aaron Rooney (The Diving Pod) 31:22

5d ago31:22

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Natalie teams up with Aaron Rooney from The Diving Pod to break down the diving events at the 2024 Paris Olympics.By Natalie Kalibat Witten

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Episode 6: Josh Larcom (FIU diving coach) 36:33

6d ago36:33

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Natalie talks with FIU diving coach Josh Larcom about his own past in diving and his time at FIU.By Natalie Kalibat Witten

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Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023) 1:01:08

6d ago1:01:08

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"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red and green liquids, slender fingers, pomegranate-colored lips, and feverish eyes. Tables and chairs, together with the crowd of people, cast their reflections on the center of the shiny floor. Everyone wa…

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164 The Little Gate Story: Bridging Aspirations and Employment with Andrea Randall-Smith 19:27

6d ago19:27

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When opportunities aren’t available, sometimes we need to create them. That is part of the reason that Little Gate came about. In this episode Andrea Randall-Smith, CEO of Little Gate, shares the history and ethos of the organization and how they work to change the future of the young people they serve by giving them to skills to move into paid wor…

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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:01:02

7d ago1:01:02

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In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Jeremy Tuft is a physics instructor and former artillery officer who is cryogenically frozen in his laboratory only to emerge after a ce…

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Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024) 1:00:03

7d ago1:00:03

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Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Based on what she called "rational self-interest", Rand believed in prosperity-seeking individualism above all. Alexandra Popoff's deeply researched biography traces Rand's journey from her early life as…

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Roderick Sewell - The First Double Above The Knee Amputee To Compete The Ironman World Championships 54:08

14d ago54:08

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Imagine growing up with prosthetics from the thighs down. Paralympic athlete Roderick Sewell was born missing his tibia in both legs, and he and his mother experienced homelessness for several years, starting when he was just eight years old. So what would you do if, at age ten, you felt a freedom you’d never before known - in the water? Would you …

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Goth Diss 1:01:56

11d ago1:01:56

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With My Gothic Dissertation, University of Iowa PhD Anna M. Williams has transformed the dreary diss into a This American Life-style podcast. Williams’ witty writing and compelling audio production allow her the double move of making a critical intervention into the study of the gothic novel, while also making an entertaining and thought-provoking …

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Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 59:45

11d ago59:45

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In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gregory Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pu…

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268: Vonne McGlynn 56:34

8d ago56:34

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In Reynella, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, detectives were investigating the mysterious disappearance of an elderly woman. She hadn’t been seen for a couple of days, and alarm bells rang when there was an attempt to access her bank account. This suspicious activity sent the detectives down a dark path of greed and deceit. SPONSORS: Whateve…

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Navigating the Future of Investment: Insights from Thomas Wilkinson, Managing Partner at Ollin Ventures 29:58

11d ago29:58

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In this episode, we sit down with Thomas Wilkinson, the Managing Partner at Ollin Ventures, a leading venture capital firm known for its innovative approach to investing in cutting-edge startups. With a wealth of experience in venture capital and a keen eye for transformative opportunities, Thomas offers an insider’s perspective on the evolving lan…

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Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024) 46:06

13d ago46:06

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Is Orwell still relevant today? In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at American University examines the life and writing of Orwell to offer lessons for contemporary politics and society. The book examines the influences that shaped Eric Blair’s nom de plume, as well as show…

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Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023) 1:03:13

13d ago1:03:13

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Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine. It begins in Cairo, 1963. Four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it’s as if Enayat never existe…

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Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:10:06

22d ago1:10:06

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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …

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Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024) 55:16

14d ago55:16

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It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing num…

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Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023) 37:23

14d ago37:23

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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel (U Virginia Press, 2023), Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritua…

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Episode 5: Alexa Massari (U. of Houston diver, SI Swimsuit Issue model) 26:03

12d ago26:03

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Natalie chats with University of Houston diver Alexa Massari about her path in diving and her one-of-a-kind opportunity to model in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.By Natalie Kalibat Witten

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Scott Talks to Jonny Wilkinson 22:09

19d ago22:09

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What if you’d trained for the moment when you could win the Rugby World Cup Final? Podcaster and World Rugby Hall Of Famer Jonny Wilkinson scored the winning drop goal in the last minute in the 2003 Rugby World Cup and instantly became one of the world's most recognizable people. But what would you do if you sank into a mire of confusion, defeat, a…

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