Just a millennial musing about books, TV, movies, music, and pop culture all while trying to navigate this sea called the 21st century.
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“The Lit-Knitters” podcast, hosted by Jace Einfeldt, Sam Jacob, and Preston Thatcher, 'knits' great works of literature together with popular TV shows, films, or anything else from pop culture. Whether a poem, a character, or entire novel, “The Lit-Knitters” not only connects our world of TV to literature in unexpected ways, but also discusses why those books still matter. http://podcastlab.byu.edu/podcast/the-lit-knitters/ https://twitter.com/litknitterspod
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A reading of Tommy Orange's story "Freyr" originally published in the Winter 2018-2019 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story.
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Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (part 5)
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Jace continues reading Mrs. Dalloway. In this section we see a lot go down with Septimus and Rezia. They are able to bond and laugh over Rezia having to make a ridiculously small hat for a woman with a large head, and **SPOILER** in an unexpected series of quick events Septimus throws himself from a window after hearing Sir William Bradshaw coming …
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Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (part 4)
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Jace continues reading Mrs. Dalloway. Septimus and Rezia deal with a psychiatrist. Richard Dalloway goes to lunch with Hugh Whitbread and Lady Bruton. We end with Richard giving Clarissa roses, but he doesn't tell he that he loves her even though he told himself he would. She realizes that their relationship is a lot more hollow than she initially …
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(BONUS) St. Patrick's Day Special - Epiphanies in James Joyce's "Araby"
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A St. Patrick's Day episode featuring James Joyce's story "Araby" from his collection Dubliners (1914). The discussion is brief and covers Joyce's use of epiphany in his short fiction. Music: "Ordinary People" by Working for a Nuclear Free City
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Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (part 3)
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Jace continues reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. In this section we read more about Septimus Warren Smith's trauma, his life before the war, and Rezia's relationship with Septimus. We also get snippets of Peter Walsh throughout. The discussion focuses more on how Woolf uses interior monologue, stream of consciousness, and head hopping to brin…
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Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (part 2)
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Jace continues reading Mrs. Dalloway. In this reading, Peter Walsh returns to London after being in India and visits Clarissa, both reminisce on old times (in their own minds of course), and we get a scene of Peter chasing after a woman who is neither his wife nor the woman he is divorcing his wife to marry. The discussion covers how stream of cons…
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Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (part 1)
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Jace reads part of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf in this episode and discusses Woolf's use of stream of consciousness as a narrative mode. This is part one of a longer series where Jace will be reading Mrs. Dalloway in its entirety. Intro and outro music: "Ordinary People" by Working for a Nuclear Free Society.…
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Characterization in Brain Time in Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"
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Jace read's Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" and discusses Wolff's use of negation and memories in characterizing the main character and how Wolff uses brevity to deepen and broaden reader's understanding of the character of Anders. Find the story in the New Yorker, and you can find his collection The Night in Question at Penguin Random House.…
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Absurd and Surreal Framing in Will Mackin's "Crossing the River No Name"
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In the first episode of this biweekly series, Jace reads Will Mackin's short story "Crossing the River No Name" and discusses the absurd nature of war, the layered framing within the story, and different techniques Mackin employs to construct a compelling piece of short fiction. Find this story in the New Yorker, and consider buying his collection …
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Episode 11 - "Remember Me": Honoring the Dead in Coco and "The Altar of the Dead"
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Jace and Preston look at memory and memorializing the dead in Disney Pixar's Coco and Henry James' 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead." They weave the common threads and ideas in both works into the current political climate in the US surrounding memorials, statues, and the naming/renaming/unnaming of buildings on college campuses. Check out t…
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Episode 10 - Cartoonized Evil and the Constraints of Empathy: Maus and Jojo Rabbit
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Midway through Season 2 of The Lit-Knitters, Sam, Jace, and Preston reconvene over Zoom to discuss the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit, directed by Taika Waititi, alongside Art Spiegelman's renowned graphic novel Maus. In the episode, the guys discuss ways in which satire either extends, limits, or abuses the power of empathy, and the degree to which "cartoo…
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Episode 9 - Unease and Uncertainty in Pandemics: "White Noise" and COVID-19
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Sam, Jace, and Preston shake things up on this episode of "The Lit-Knitters," meeting via Zoom to discuss the current global COVID-19 pandemic in the context of Don DeLillo's 1985 National Book Prize winning novel, White Noise. Disclaimer: Because this episode was recorded using the video conferencing software, Zoom, this episode's audio quality su…
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Episode 8 - Realism and Romanticism in War: 1917 and The Red Badge of Courage
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In this episode, Sam, Jace, and Preston discuss the 2019 Oscar-Award-winning film 1917 (directed by Sam Mendes) and the 1895 American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. They discuss both works in relation to the Romantic and Realism literary periods and philosophies related to those movements, the romantic and realistic elem…
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Episode 7 - Monstrous Anti-Heroes: Grendel and Shrek
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Welcome to season 2 of The Lit-Knitters! Despite our lengthy hiatus, we're back in business with a new season full of great (albeit nerdy) connections between literature and movies/TV shows/music records/anything else we randomly think of! On this episode, we discuss anti-heroes, alternative fairy-tales, and monstrous apathy in Dreamwork's 2001 ani…
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Episode 1 - Death and Expendability in Stranger Things
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Jace takes a dive into the way that death and mortality are dealt with Stranger Things. Spoilers for Stranger Things and Breaking Bad.
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This is the trailer for the Millennial Mariner Podcast. Just a millennial's musings on books, movies, tv, music, and pop culture. If you're interested, climb on board! New episodes every Friday.
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Episode 6 - Loved Ones Lost: Nostalgia, Coping, and Spousal Death in "Leigia" and The Simpsons
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In episode 6 of The Lit-Knitters, after a two month hiatus because of college finals, a marriage (Jace and Meghan), and general busyness, Sam and Jace dive into the world of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Leigia," a tale of love, death, and restoration and how Ned Flanders from The Simpsons deals with a similar tragedy in his own life. Also, a few …
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Episode 5 - Fake Fiction: The Things They Carried and Fargo
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What does it mean to write or tell a real story? Have you ever wondered how much truth is behind the adage "based on true events"? Sam and Jace with guest Court Einfeldt, discuss Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War novel The Things the Carried and the second season of the FX show Fargo and how both of these works of fiction deal with and blur the lines betwe…
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Episode 4 - Huge Tiny Mistakes: Arrested Development and "The Gift of the Magi"
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Have you ever made a huge mistake based on a tiny miscommunication? On this episode of the Lit-Knitters, Sam and Jace talk all about these huge tiny mistakes in "Arrested Development" and O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," and share some of their own huge tiny mistakes. Special shout out to the Overdue Podcast, they're one of our big inspirations! F…
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Episode 3 - Stranger Neighbors: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Stranger Things"
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In this episode of "The Lit-Knitters," Sam and Jace knit together themes of misunderstanding, mistrust, and strange neighbors between Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Netflix blockbuster series "Stranger Things." Guest: Maddie Roush, host of "The Blackholes of Netflix" podcast, from BYU's UPL Intro music: www.bensounds.com…
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Minisode 1 - Getting to Know the Lit-Knitters
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In this bonus 'minisode', Sam and Jace unravel another "knitting pattern" and get down to the "knitty-gritty" as usual, only this time, they're not talking about a TV show and a work of literature . . . they're talking about each other! Listen to this shorter episode to get to know more about the hosts, their lives, and maybe even an embarrassing f…
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Episode 2 - Striving for Sublimity: Dr. Faustus, Faust, and Breaking Bad
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On this episode of "The Lit-Knitters" Sam and Jace talk about ideas of striving for sublime experiences and redemption in three great works: Dr. Faustus, Faust, and Breaking Bad. Guest: Alex Roweton, host of "I Had the Craziest Dream Last Night" podcast, BYU UPL Music: wwww.bensounds.com Breaking Bad Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEmx23LwF…
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Episode 1 - Shows about Nothing: "Seinfeld and "Waiting for Godot"
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In the first episode of The Lit-Knitters, Sam and Jace knit together ideas about nothingness, tragicomedy, and 'Costanzian' moments in both "Seinfeld" and "Waiting for Godot." Guest: Mason Graham, host of the "Luncheons and Flagons" podcast Music: www.bensounds.com
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Welcome to "The Lit-Knitters," the podcast where two undergraduate English students, Sam and Jace, knit popular TV and classic literature together. Intro Music: www.bensounds.com
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