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Literary Round Table

Literary Round Table

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The Literary Round Table is the only place online where readers get to interact with their favorite fiction or non-fiction authors and experts in a variety of fields. We bring your favorite authors to the Literary Round Table for interesting, fun and free-wheeling discussions on a variety of topics, and you have the opportunity to interact with them by asking questions or commenting via Twitter or email! You can listen to the discussion at your convenience by going to one of several websites ...
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Konjectural Kombat

"Professor" Johnson & "Fanboy" Koch

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Where Factual and Fictional Engage In Fisticuffs! Have you ever wondered who would win a fight between the US Presidents? Have you ever shuddered at the possibilities of superheroes, movie characters, and literary icons coming to blows? Want to learn history in the most action movie way possible? Let the battle begin!
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Sixty-three essays on a variety of topics as wide apart as Family Life in America, Opera Synopses, Bigamy, International Finance and many more, Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley strangely enough does not touch upon romance at all! However, these delightful notes provide hours of browsing pleasure for young and old readers alike. Robert Benchley was a well-known humorist and newspaper columnist, radio and television presenter, actor, scriptwriter and broadcaster. He is also credited with c ...
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Our guests are Antonio Elmaleh, author of the critically acclaimed Civil War and Reconstruction novel, The Ones They Left Behind, and Doug McAdam, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and the former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. McAdam is the author or co-author of 18 books and s…
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Our guests are Antonio Elmaleh, author of the critically acclaimed Civil War and Reconstruction novel, The Ones They Left Behind, and Joe Williams, senior news editor with US News & World Report. Join them as they discuss the parallels between our country during the Civil War and now, and how we can unite as a nation during these divisive time…
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A HOUSE UNITED, Part Three of our conversations about understanding American and each other.Our guests are Antonio Elmaleh, author of the critically acclaimed Civil War and Reconstruction novel, The Ones They Left Behind, and James E. Campbell, UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New Yor…
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A HOUSE UNITED, Part Two of our conversations about understanding American and each other. Our guests are Antonio Elmaleh, author of the critically acclaimed Civil War and Reconstruction novel, The Ones They Left Behind, and Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution whose focus is classics and milita…
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The Literary Roundtable presents A HOUSE UNITED, a special six part series of conversations on understanding America and each other.In the first conversation, our guests are John Blake, CNN Enterprise writer/producer and author of ""Children of the Movement," and Antonio Elmaleh, author of the Civil War and Reconstruction novel "The Ones They Left …
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The Literary Round Table is the only place online where readers get to interact with their favorite fiction or non-fiction author. WE bring your favorite authors to the literary round table for interesting, fun and free-wheeling discussions on a variety of topics, and YOU have the opportunity to personally interact with them! Think of it as a liter…
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History Wins. Fatality. In a shocking turn of events, a victor in the fight between factual and fictional is claimed... and still, the show must go on! Following a lengthy absence, Konjectural Kombat returns with an all-new, all-different status quo that is sure to rock the foundations of how historically based fighting podcasts are made! The first…
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It's a madhouse in The White House yet again! For this round, The Historical Heathen enlists an extra set of hands to aide The Fictional Fuck-Up in laying down the law, because it's a Presidential Fatal Fourway! So listen in as The Konjecturalists are joined by a man armed with the tiniest of tendons to ask that all important question: Who takes Th…
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Holy heavyweights! A raging battle that's been 75 years in the making! This time, the rug has been completely pulled out from under the Historical Heathen's feet, as the Fictional Fuck-Up - like the dastardly villain that he is - throws him into dire peril with only one chance of escape... let Batmen fight! With enough twists and turns worthy of Th…
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History wreaks havoc once again! Tales of factuality triumph over terrible tragedy! Words of wisdom are imparted by the wise and the whimsical! What we're saying is, it's that time again for the Historical portion of the program, as the Historical Heathen forcibly ties the Fictional Freemason down on the railroad tracks of Past Events to verbally s…
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Pandemonium! In Round Three, the battle escalates to it's craziest proportions yet, as the Historical Heathen unleashes an unforseen catalyst for chaos onto the Fictional Fuck-up: Konjectural Kombat's first ever Royal Rumble (but don't call it that!)! And what better subjects to start out with than historical harbingers of war, The United States Pr…
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Are you ready for another bout? Because it's time, once again, to celebrate the glorious carnage of two figures factual or fictional duking it out for the sheer amusement of two fanboys with nothing better to do with their time! And in this episode, for the very first time ever it's the latter, as the Historical Hick (Matt Johnson) finds himself in…
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In Round One, listen in as the Historical Hick (Matt Johnson) spins a yarn and teaches the Fictional Fanboy (Alex Koch) a thing or two about both the man who helped found the US Navy and the man who, two centuries later, would best them at every turn! In the first Historical bout, the mad ship captain turned thief of plates, John Paul Jones, sets s…
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