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Reading McCarthy

Scott Yarbrough and Guest Hosts

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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. (Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)
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A calm and reflective place to talks about the classic works of literature. From Homer to Cormac McCarthy and everything in between. If you are a bibliophile, or someone who wants to read classics but doesn’t know where to start, then this is the podcast for you.
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Spine Crackers is an in-depth literary analysis podcast where we discuss a different book every other week, with some jokes and goofs tossed in for good measure. Follow us on instagram, twitter, facebook, etc. and check out our patreon! We post our next read on twitter so you can keep up and read along with us if you like. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spinecrackers https://www.patreon.com/spinecrackers spinecrackerspod@gmail.com
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Lit Society: Books and Drama

Kari Herrera and Alexis Honoria

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LIT Society is the hilarious weekly book podcast that’s making a global community of listeners fall in love again with reading. Thursdays, join life-long friends Kari and Alexis as they use books to explore pop culture and personal peculiarities. From Tolstoy to Toni Morrison, this is the virtual book club for you!
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Caleb Can’t Read is a podcast where you can learn all about the major works, themes, and lives of some of your favorite (or most hated) authors along with Caleb Terrence, being taught the subject of each episode for the first time by his friend, Jordan Raebel, who spent countless hours doing research for your enjoyment and the betterment of his co-host’s education. You can check out our sources used for each episode on our Facebook Sources Page: facebook.com/calebcantread. You can also check ...
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Bookies

Destiny Comix

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The bookeis podcast is NOT ABOUT SPORTS BETTING!!! we are a group of friends who get together each month to discuses a different paperback drawn at random. We discuses children literature, horror, action, any paper back we know to be of quality writing. We have been recording our book club as a podcast since the end of 2016. I hope you enjoy this months discussion.
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Literaturfest

Literaturfest

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Literatuurkritiek door Toine Donk, Tim de Gier en Ernst-Jan Pfauth. Niet gehinderd door enige kennis van zaken. Vanuit zorgcentrum Evean KadoelerBreek in Amsterdam-Noord en live op gezette data in de Rode Hoed.
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Smug Book Club

C R Booth and R D Jay

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Tired of the same-old serious book analysis in podcasts? Well, we were. To solve this, Ryan and Callum started Smug Book Club. A podcast that gets literature 'lit' and puts the 'ok' into books. Every fortnight, the team releases an episode on a book. It can be old, new, classic or not, anything is up for discussion. Expect foul-language and spoilers, but don't worry if you haven't read the novel, we've done it for you. Follow us on Twitter: @SmugBookClub
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The Writing Endeavor

William Eaton and Nathaniel Griffin

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Authors William Eaton and Nathaniel Griffin are doing a podcast about their writing journey. The two authors are exploring writing and what it takes to go from idea, creation, editing, publishing, and beyond. Join the two hosts bi-weekly and listen to the two authors discuss their successes and lessons as they build their writing career.
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Talking about books on the streets of New York, in the mountains of the Catskills and on the road. I find that when I ask people about what they’re reading, they tend to start talking about books generally and then start talking to others about books. Encouraging the discussion of books cannot be a bad thing! “Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and ...
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Textual Feelings

Textual Feelings

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Ever been curled up, reading a great book, listening to some background music... but somehow it's just all wrong? You know what i'm talking about, right? You're reading some Jane Austen but Biggie's singing 'gimme some HOES, a bank roll and a bag o' weed'. Or you're reading the Great Gatsby but some sweet (?) Bob Dylan harmonica is blasting. It's not that you don't love Biggie and Bob. It's that you're just not in the same place right now. It's you, it's not them. If you have ever experience ...
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Cormac McCarthy remains a great crypto-Gnostic, just as Blood Meridian remains the great American novel and Gnostic Gospels simultaneously. We’ll go deep into the Terra Damnata for the Gnostic themes in McCarthy's work, going beyond Blood Meridian to such works as The Road and No Country for Old Men. I can’t think of anyone better than Ian Cattanac…
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May - Fear the Reaper 5-7-24: Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" 5-14-24: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" 5-21-24: Ray Bradbury's "The Scythe" 5-28-24: Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark For more of 5laughterhouse’s music, visit his Bandcamp page: https://5laughterhouse.bandcamp.com/ To see what I’m reading, visit me or follow me on…
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This poor dude might've actually done less damage had he just been left the hell alone. Sure they say the pen is mightier than the sword, but Jose Rizal seemed content to let sleeping Spaniards lie once he found out how much trouble he was in. Unfortunately, the people around him would force his environments to change, and his life to be forever al…
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When Mitch Horowitz arrives at Virtual Alexandria, it’s always a time to tap into your Hermetic Nous. He’ll discuss his ideas on our illusionary reality, his upcoming Discover TV series, Alien Encounters, and his new book, Happy Warriors. He’ll share iconic voices of esoteric spirituality and ideas of the most remarkable figures in positive-mind sp…
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We return next week with a new episode, but we'd never leave you without a dope book to discuss. So, here's another favorite episode from our past! Hyde yo' kids! Hyde yo' wife! A young doctor allows his obsession with the duality of human nature to lead him down a path littered with lies, murder, and destruction. His name is Doctor Henry Jekyll; t…
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Ready to do some needed shadow work? You’ll get there when Maja D’Aoust arrives to share her new book, Astrology of the Shadow Self. The shadow self is an inseparable part of the human being – a concept known from ancient Egypt to classic Hinduism and recently rediscovered by modern psychology. Maja will show you how to find out the shadow polariti…
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David Block returns from Mordor with crucial information for the Virtual Alexandria. The Lord of the Rings is an epic saga. The fictional world of Middle-earth is, however, more than fiction. The profound truth between the lines is more visible today than ever before. Technology and transhumanism rule the day, and in Middle-earth, Sauron rules the …
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Have you ever had to cut someone out of your life? No phone calls, texts, and your friends know not to invite both of you to the same event? This week, our theme is inspired by Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover. Tara didn’t have a birth certificate until she was nine years old and she didn’t see her first classroom until the age of 17. It’s like …
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Ready to delve into Jason Reza Jorjani’s thought-provoking new book, Philosophy of the Future? He will share the six original concepts at his core, including the Spectral Revolution, Novel Folklore, Being Bound for Freedom, and the World State of Emergency. We'll examine the philosophical problem of the future from various angles, touching on ontol…
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May - Fear the Reaper 5-7-24: Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" 5-14-24: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" 5-21-24: Ray Bradbury's "The Scythe" 5-28-24: Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark For more of 5laughterhouse’s music, visit his Bandcamp page: https://5laughterhouse.bandcamp.com/ To see what I’m reading, visit me or follow me on…
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Sometimes you gotta be the change you wanna see in the world. And sometimes, you gotta piss off a whole lot of people to do it. Join us as we talk about the early life of the Philippines' foremost national hero, Jose Rizal, as well as his terrible finances, his bad housemate manners, and which side of his pants he hung his hog. Salamat!…
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Sylvia Plath is considered one of history’s greatest poets of modernity. Yet much of her life has been censored by secular forces. The truth is that Plath was steeped in mysticism and occultism: Hermeticism, Kabbalah, pagan magic, astrology, and more. She was a psychic who employed the Tarot and other esoteric disciplines. Julia Gordon-Bramer enter…
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A man's enemies will be persons of his own household. In one of the most tragic classics, we are forced to stare unflinchingly into a household descending into madness and chaos. The play: King Lear The playwright: William Shakespeare LET'S GET LIT!!! - View the video podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@litsocietypod Find Alexis and Kari online:…
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Stop counting the carpet hexagons of the Overlook Hotel, Truthers! Steven Snider moonlands on the Virtual Alexandria to discuss his latest book, The Minotaur: A Kubrick Odyssey. He will correct many of the conspiracies surrounding the famed director, from the Apollo 11 mission to The Shining/Eyes Wide Shut theories to his involvement with the Deep …
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May - Fear the Reaper 5-7-24: Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale" 5-14-24: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" 5-21-24: Ray Bradbury's "The Scythe" 5-28-24: Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark For more of 5laughterhouse’s music, visit his Bandcamp page: https://5laughterhouse.bandcamp.com/ To see what I’m reading, visit me or follow me on…
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Honored to have researcher and Gnostic priestess Billie Steigerwald at the Virtual Alexandria. We’ll go deep into the Orphic underworld to procure the treasure guarded by the dragon-headed snake. This quest will entail understanding the Gnostic idea of evil, the cosmologies of luminaries like Simon Magus, and the influence of the Orphic/Elusynean m…
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