A podcast dedicated to fantasy fiction! Each week Marysa and Vicki will discuss a different book from the fantasy genre. A great podcast if you love talking about fantasy and are looking for recommendations.
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A podcast exploring writer Dominick Dunne's quest for justice amidst his incisive commentary of the high society set. Alicia (Trashy Divorces) leads a far ranging romp through the novels and Vanity Fair columns of one of the 20th century’s most unforgettable literary contributors. Covering courthouses and country clubs, Dunne’s voice was one for the ages, and Done & Dunne ensures that voice can continue to resonate with audiences today.
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A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead. We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. L ...
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The Last Comic Shop is a podcast dedicated to saving one of the great literary art forms: Comics! Weekly reviews and recommendations for comic book fans both new and life long! Have a comic book you want us to review? Email us at lastcomicshoppodcast@gmail.com
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Welcome to Pleasant Evenings Book Club, a podcast focused on literary criticism and analysis. Our main focus is literature but we also have been known to dabble in movies, television, and frankly whatever we see fit. We’re here to have fun with some heavy texts, and more than anything else, make more evenings pleasant. Currently on a quest to watch all of Mobile Suit Gundam, but we’re still a book club!
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Congrats, you are one chat away from treasure! 🤩 We're Gwen and Mimi, two avid readers. After a few months discussing books and suggesting reads to each other, we realised that the books we both loved were written in the 20th century. This is how we created the only conversational podcast focusing on books of the 20th century, famous or awaiting world-wide recognition. Because not all the great books are official classics, and because we take a personal approach to reading. We believe that e ...
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Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Greg Louganis, Becky Albertalli, and so many more, guests from across the rainbow tell these authors how their books helped them overcome alienation, gender dysphoria, familial homophobia, and being outed. Essayist and Lambda Literary Fellow J.P. Der Boghossian hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, ...
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A series of interview with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
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QELKE is a podcast dedicated to elevating its listener’s knowledge by reviewing some of the greatest literary writers and their works. Join QELKE bi-monthly as host, Bob Stewart discusses classics and sometimes not-so classic literary contributions that have become national treasures.
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3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 22-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Shirley The Nurse, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Angie Thomas, David Mitchell, Surgeon Ge ...
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Literary Leviathans: Hunting the Great White Whales of Classic Literature
T. S. Russell and Elizabeth Bernadette
Join brother and sister T. S. Russell and Elizabeth Bernadette as we embark on a quest after the great works of literature! Like the mythic leviathan, these are stories so monstrous in scope and depth that to merely touch them is to be changed forever. Our topics range from short stories by Flannery O’Connor to plays by Shakespeare to romance novels by Jane Austen. Cover Art: Moby Dick by Culpeo-Fox. Used with permission. Theme Music: "Job Suite" by Michael Card. Used with permission.
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Elevate your reading experience with our thoughtfully curated selection of literary treasures. Unleash the power of a good book. 📖🌟 #BookEnthusiast #Books #eBooks #Audiobooks #PDF #Kindle #Mobi #ePub Powered by Firstory Hosting
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Join us on this quest to discover the eucatastrophe hidden in the worlds around us as we explore life, imagination and everything. Narnia is just one of the many worlds visited by Lewis' literary children. Who knows where we'll end up when we jump "Into the Wardrobe"?
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Hi, I'm Zoe! I'm a Visual Linguist and Exophonic Writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Join me each episode while I podcast my quest to become a published author. Some topics that will show up in the podcast are: -Languages and Linguistics (especially about Spanish and English). -The struggles of writing in your second language. -Literature (genres and styles that have grabbed my attention) -Writing techniques, rituals and routines. -Seeking publication. -Curation of resources: books, blogs, ...
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo Music influences culture, inspires companionship, and creates tension. To love music is to eternally welcome it into your heart like a significant other. Often compelling, occasionally frustrating, yet forever entwined with your heart. The Keep Calm and Rock On Podcast has launched to provide a roundtable-type platform to discuss the way rock and roll and popular music has moved people for t ...
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Pulling The Thread Podcast: Tracing Jesus Before Christianity Emerged, Jesus the Jew within Judaism!
Jeramiah Giehl
Armed with scholarly analysis, "Pulling The Thread Podcast" fearlessly dissects the New Testament, unveiling its human origins and challenging the myth of inspiration. Through textual criticism, it exposes the NT as products of later centuries, far removing its from the era of Jesus. Driven by a quest for Jewish reclamation, employing the historical-critical method, the podcast explores Second Temple Judaism, the Talmud & the Qumran community. Renowned scholars guide the journey, revealing J ...
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Among the many ideas explored in this book are beauty, gardens, honor and reputation, cunning, nobility, friendship and many others. Authored by the man who is credited with having invented the essay form in English, The Essays of Francis Bacon was written over an extended period, ranging from the mid sixteenth century. They were compiled in a single edition in 1597 and later re-written, enlarged and added to in other editions in 1612 and 1625. However, their compelling and insightful qualit ...
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“Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.” – Lord Dunsany, the preface to “The Book of Wonder”
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In this episode we discuss Quicksilver by Callie Hart. Saeris has spent her life living in the third ward and fighting for survival. When a theft goes wrong and she gets caught she finds herself sucked into a new world, full of the fae and new types of danger. Especially, since she is the first alchemist who can manipulate quicksilver in a long tim…
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David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical thinkers in Western political theory. The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton UP, 2024) explores the thought of Socrates and Plato, Jesus…
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Fall of the House of X, Rise of the Powers of X: 9/3/24
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It's the End of an Era! The Last Comic Shop takes a look at the finale of the multi year story arc in the X-men books known as The Krakoan Age by reviewing "Fall of the House of X, Rise of the Powers of X" by Gerry Duggan, Kieron Gillen & countless more! Plus the gang takes a hard look at the realities of massive comic book crossover events and if …
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Exile and Pride with Seeley Quest and Eli Clare
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Exile is not a choice that anyone wants to make. It’s something we come to through necessity. Today we meet seeley quest and we’re talking about the book that saved hir life: Exile and Pride by Eli Clare. And Eli joins us for the conversation! Seeley Quest (sie/hir) is a trans disabled environmentalist, working in literary and body-based compositio…
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Chapter 3: Seth Godin on shifting stories and stretching ourselves
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Happy new moon, everybody! I am going to release a few of my favorite classic chapters of 3 Books. Let's start with Seth Godin! I flew down to New York to uncover and discuss the most formative books of the one and only Seth Godin (@ThisIsSethsBlog) from his Hastings-On-Hudson studio. Seth is the bestselling author of 'Linchpin', 'Purple Cow'…
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180. A Nick in Crime | The Murder of Vicki Morgan, Alfred Bloomingdale’s Inconvenient Mistress
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In this week’s episode, we take a journey to the second criminal case Dominick Dunne covered in his reporting for Vanity Fair. When Vicki Morgan was murdered in July 1983, it sent shockwaves through the political upper crust, as Vicki was the mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, connected into the Reagan administration through the decades. Dominick Dun…
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Christine Folch, "The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea. In Argentina, southern "gaúcho" Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mate is the stimulating brew of choice, famously quaffed by the Argentine national football team…
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Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political histories treat Hawaii’s statehood as a kind of historical inevitability, an event that was bound to pass the moment the kingdom was annexed. As I would frequently pontificate, “nobody has unpacked the i…
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Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included women and non-Jews. Yet all of its members embraced a secular Jewish machismo that became a defining characteristic of the contemporary experience. W…
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Introducing American Prankster: Wavy Gravy's Life Story
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We are excited to share a show we're loving with you! American Prankster: Wavy Gravy's Life Story pairs the legendary entertainer and activist with our friend, podcaster Rainbow Valentine, following the incredible ride of a life that Wavy Gravy has been on through decades of American counterculture. Enjoy this sample, and subscribe wherever you lis…
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Don't sleep on this week's episode of the Last Comic Shop Podcast as we check out a modern interpretation of the classic Golden Age version of the Sandman by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossmo Plus we school you on how to get your own comics bound into customized omnibus collections perfect for your comic book libraries! Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: C…
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August 26 marks the 15 years since our man Nick’s passing in 2009, and this week, we honor him, his life and legacy. Dominick Dunne was fondly recalled by many – these are a few of the best stories about his life and impact, by Sean Elder and Jason Chaffee. Do you have a story to share about Dominick Dunne? Tell Alicia at doneanddunne@gmail.com. Al…
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It's a double-up week here on Done and Dunne! In this first drop, we travel to the California home of Joanne Carson where Truman Capote spent his last days in August of 1984, forty years ago. Truman, infamous writer and collector of Swans, has some pretty epic stories in his last months, as told by his friends before his passing on August 25. Then,…
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The Shadow In The Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Prepare to be captivated by M.E. Braddon's "The Shadow in the Corner," a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic fiction that will send shivers down your spine. This chilling tale follows the arrival of Maria, a young servant girl, at the foreboding Wildheath Grange. As she settles into her new role, Maria becomes increasingly aware of a mysterious presenc…
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Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without butterflies. And yet their populations are declining at an alarming rate, to the extent that even the seemingly ubiquitous Monarch could conceivably go the way of the Passenger Pigeon. Many other, mor…
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Rewind to this year's Live Stream For the Cure event as the Last Comic Shop Podcast takes a look at a series that went where no comic fan went before with the Star Trek/X-men Crossover by Scott Lobdell, Marc Silvestri & more! Plus fans challenge us to come up with some of the greatest hypothetical comic book/TV Show mash ups ever! From M*A*S*H* and…
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This book isn’t about celebrity. It’s about queer heritage. And passing it on. Today we meet Brent Love and we’re talking about the book that saved his life: Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile. Brent Love is the author of the memoir Leap which debuted in June 2024. He is also the host/producer of the podcasts Hope Works: A Surrogacy and You and Me and…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Horse and His Boy
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This week, we discuss two books from the Chronicles of Narnia series. In the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Pevensie children go through a wardrobe and discover a magical world called Narnia that is coated in snow. They are tasked with rescuing a kind faun from the self-proclaimed queen of Narnia, Jadis, who has cursed Narnia to be always wi…
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Chapter 139: Lewis Mallard valorizes visionary vandalism
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I was at a coffee shop on College Street when the barista Tony yelled “Hey! There’s that duck!” I turned and, sure enough, out the front window was a… duck. A giant pixelated-looking green-headed Mallard set atop a rubber-tire-sized body on top of orange-stockinged legs and a pair of orange Converse. And he was just … walking by. Like some kind of …
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177. Roddy McDowall | A Fabulous Life and Friend To All
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It is off to Old Hollywood this week, with the life and death of Roddy McDowall. Dominick Dunne was involved in both, and does he give a wonderful profile of his friend at this time of his passing in 1998. Roddy – legendary in Hollywood, not only for his prolific acting career, but also his photographs and very famous friendships. Roddy was the bes…
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Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean in the Soviet Union? What was its relationship with religion? In her new book, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, Dr. Victoria Smolkin explores how the Soviet state defined an…
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In "The Quest of Iranon," follow the mysterious traveler Iranon as he embarks on a relentless search for a mythical city shrouded in beauty and enigma. Prepare to be spellbound by the surreal landscapes he traverses, the enigmatic beings he encounters, and the eerie truths he unveils along the way. This tale promises to unravel the boundaries betwe…
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Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires. Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton UP, 2024) is a pa…
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Anthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. C…
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Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded KACH, an ultranationalist and racist po…
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Noah Heringman, "Deep Time: A Literary History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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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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Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalise relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age o…
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Going on a Quest this week? We sure are as the Last Comic Shop crew takes a look at one of the longest running fantasy related comic book series out there with Volume 1 of Elf Quest by Wendy & Richard Pini! Plus the results of our recent fan polls which you can vote on weekly out @lastcomicshop on social media, including the winner of this year's L…
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176. Elaine Young to Gig Young to Eugene Landy to Brian Wilson to Elizabeth Montgomery
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This week, we are taking a little detour into the past in our investigation with a Not Dunne Yet bonus episode from many moons ago. Dominick Dunne really did interact with so many characters in his various acts, and this week we take our man Nick connecting a whole throughline of folks you might not know were connected. From Elaine Young to Gig You…
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Pleasant Evenings Book Club // Sabres of Paradise (Part 3)
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The ending to Sabres of Paradise offers a sober counterpart to the high passions of the previous two parts. The story of a rebellion that even in defeat refuses to be forgotten shifts into the story of a man who, in captivity, refuses to sacrifice his dignity and faces his new life and coming death with grace few can imitate. We count down all the …
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In a moonlit Victorian mansion, a man delves into his family's mysterious past. As night falls, the line between reality and the supernatural begins to blur. When an unwilling friend is drawn into a late-night escapade, he finds himself caught between loyalty and an unsettling presence that seems to permeate the old house. In this chilling tale of …
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It's an Avengers Reunion of Epic proportions as we take a look at the alternate future version of Earth's Mightiest Heroes attempting to stave off a Dystopian nightmare for America in "Avengers Twilight" by Chip Zdarsky and Daniel Acuña! Plus the results of our recent fan polls which you can vote on weekly out @lastcomicshop on social media! Host: …
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Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand with Robin Jeffrey
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No queer person is an island. Even if we start off that way. Today we meet Robin Jeffrey and we’re talking about the book that saved her life: Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delaney. Robin Jeffrey is the author of the series of classic murder mysteries with scifi-twists, The Cadence Turing Mysteries and the paranormal romance s…
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This episode we're talking about mermen! Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm is the first in her new series about merpeople and their humans. Ever since humans developed colonies in the oceans, the undine (merpeople), have been their enemies. Humans destroyed parts of the ocean to create new homes, angering the creatures already in the sea. Argus is …
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Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome (Princeton UP, 2024) sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, …
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What is Santiago fighting in The Old Man and The Sea?
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Join us as we explore Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In this episode, we delve into Santiago's epic battle— with the sea, but also with his community and most of all with himself. Discover the powerful themes of perseverance, pride, and the human spirit that drive this classic story; not to mention, the beautiful descriptions of the se…
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175. A Nick In Crime | The Manson Murders
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Dominick Dunne did write about the murders of his friends Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate on that terrible weekend in August 1969. This is a weekend that would change everything in Hollywood, and our man Nick was on the scene, and has the story from all his friends, so connected into our ongoing investigation. Included: Robert Evans, Roman Polanski, Wa…
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Prepare to be transported to the desolate moorlands of Garside Fell, where the haunting whistle of a train echoes through the mist-shrouded night. In L.T.C. Rolt's chilling tale, "The Garside Fell Disaster," the line between past and present blurs as an unsuspecting railway enthusiast uncovers a tragic history that refuses to stay buried. Learn mor…
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Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical performances we often associate with charisma ("ask not what your country can do for you"), but because of something more ordinary an…
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Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the Arabs. The greatest enemy of the Jews was liberalism. Shaul Magid, Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and Rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue, is a celebrated and brilliant scholar of radical and dissident Jud…
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Deadpool Corps, Deadpool & Wolverine: 7/30/24
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It's a Double, Triple, Quadruple Dose of Deadpool this week as we take a look at the team up of a whole lot of Mercs with Mouths with Deadpool Corps by Rob Liefeld & others! Plus will the MCU be saved by the team up of Deadpool & Wolverine on the big screen? We got our movie review for ya, kids! Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott…
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Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia. Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of S…
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