BOOK TALK 48: The American Canon, with Sarah Rivett
Where, when, and how does American literature begin? What constitutes the canon of U.S. literature, and how is it distinct? While monuments and histor...
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BOOK TALK 47: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with Wendy Lee
Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice delights, charms and entrances readers since its anonymous publication in 1813. The Bennett sisters need to ma...
BOOK TALK 46: HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN LITERATURE, with Marlene Daut (University of Virginia)
To learn more about the Haitian Revolution in fiction, I spoke with Professor Marlene Daut specialized in pre-20th-century Caribbean, African American...
BOOK TALK 45: Martin Buber's I AND THOU, with Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago and Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
Today we talk a lot about a need for genuine dialogue, and for conversations across partisan divides and differences. What is a true, authentic, and m...
BOOK TALK 44: HANNAH ARENDT by Samantha Hill (Assist. Director "Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities" | Professor of Politics Bard College, New York State)
Hannah Arendt's 1967 essay on "Truth and Politics" centers on the uneasy relation between truth-telling and politics. Lying has always been part of po...
BOOK TALK 43: RAINER MARIA RILKE by Mark Wunderlich (Poet/Writer/Teacher & Director of Creative Writing at Bennington College, Vermont)
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the order of angels?" This angsty cry opens poet Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- one of the greatest p...
BOOK TALK 42: Kate Chopin's The Awakening, with Rafael Walker (Baruch College, CUNY)
Kate Chopin's absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who questions her life choices, an...
GREAT BOOKS 41: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with John Collins (Founding Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company)
The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest novels ever written and a masterpiece of American fiction. Midwesterner Nick Carraway spends a summer on Long ...
GREAT BOOKS 40: Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance, with Mary Chapman (University Of British Columbia)
Who was the first Chinese American writer to publish in America? Sui Sin Far, or Edith Maude Eaton, was born to a British father and Chinese mother w...
GREAT BOOKS 39: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, with Robert Dale Parker (University of Illinois)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft is the first known American Indian literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, and th...