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The Literary Life Podcast

Not just book chat! The Literary Life Podcast is an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well and the lost intellectual tradition needed to fully enter into the great works of literature. Experienced teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks (of www.HouseOfHumaneLetters.com) join lifelong reader Cindy Rollins (of www.MorningtimeForMoms.com) for slow reads of classic literature, conversations with book lovers, and an ever-unfolding discussion of how Stories Will Save the World. And check out our sister podcast The Well Read Poem with poet Thomas Banks.

Episode 234: Harry Potter Book 1, Ch. 8-12

Published: July 23, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 233: Harry Potter Book 1, Ch. 3-7

Published: July 16, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 232: Harry Potter Book 1, Introduction and Ch. 1-2

Published: July 9, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 231: What to Do When The Literary Life Feels Overwhelming

Published: July 2, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 230: Best of Series Why I Write by George Orwell, Ep. 16

Published: June 25, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 229: Best of Series, Araby by James Joyce, Ep. 11

Published: June 18, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 228: Best of Series, The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, Ep. 15

Published: June 11, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 227: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Ch. 19-25

Published: June 4, 2024, 5:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 226: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Ch. 12-18

Published: May 28, 2024, 5:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 225: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Ch. 6-11

Published: May 21, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 224: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Introduction and Ch. 1-5

Published: May 14, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 223: Best of The Literary Life The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, Ep. 99

Published: May 7, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 222: Tartuffe by Moliere, Acts 3 - 5

Published: April 30, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 221: Tartuffe by Moliere, Introduction and Acts 1 & 2

Published: April 23, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 220: Fairy Tales and Childrens Literature with Dr. Vigen Guroian

Published: April 16, 2024, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 219: Best of Series Why Read Old Books, Ep. 80

Published: April 9, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 218: Best of Series Our Favorite Poems, Ep. 54

Published: April 2, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 217: Best of Series The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: A Conversation with Jason M. Baxter, Ep. 145

Published: March 26, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 216: E. M. Forsters Howards End On Screen

Published: March 19, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 215: E. M. Forsters Howards End, Ch. 35-End

Published: March 12, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 214: E. M. Forsters Howards End, Ch. 26-34

Published: March 5, 2024, 6:01 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 213: E. M. Forsters Howards End, Ch. 17-25

Published: Feb. 27, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 212: E. M. Forsters Howards End, Ch. 8-16

Published: Feb. 20, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 211: E. M. Forsters Howards End, Introduction and Ch. 1-7

Published: Feb. 13, 2024, 6:04 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 210: Reading Beyond Mere Motherhood with Cindy Rollins

Published: Feb. 6, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 209: Best of Series The Literary Life of Emily Raible, Ep. 56

Published: Jan. 30, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 208: Best of Series A Midsummer Nights Dream, Acts IV & V, Ep. 121

Published: Jan. 23, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 207: Best of Series A Midsummer Nights Dream, Act III, Ep. 120

Published: Jan. 16, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 206: Best of Series A Midsummer Nights Dream, Acts I & II, Ep. 119

Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 205: The Best of Series Intro to Shakespeare and A Midsummer Nights Dream, Ep. 118

Published: Jan. 2, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 204: A Preview of The Literary Life Season 6

Published: Dec. 26, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 203: Our Literary Lives of 2023

Published: Dec. 19, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 202: The Literary Life of Jenn Rogers

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 201: The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ch. 9-End

Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 6:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 200: The Literary Life LIVE 2024 Reading Challenge

Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 199: The Best of Series In Search of the Austen Adaptation: Sense and Sensibility, Ep. 138

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 198: The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ch. 6-8

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 6:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 197: The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ch. 3-5

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 196: The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers, Intro and Ch. 1-2

Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 195: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 16-End

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 194: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 6-15

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 193: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 1-5

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 192: The First Men In the Moon by H. G. Wells, An Introduction to Sci-Fi

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 5:09 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 191: The Best of Series Leaf by Niggle Part 2, Ep. 59

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 190: The Best of Series Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien, Ep. 58

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 5:03 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 189: The Best of Series On Fairy Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien, Ep. 57

Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 188: Why Translation Matters with Dr. Anne Phillips

Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 5:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 187: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. 11-End

Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 186: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. 5-10

Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 185: "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton, Intro and Ch. 1-4

Published: Aug. 15, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 184: The Best of Series In Search of the Austen Adaptation Pride and Prejudice, Ep. 115

Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 183: The Best of Series The Literary Life of Caitlin Beauchamp, Ep. 30

Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 182: The Literary Life of Addison and Ella Hornstra

Published: July 25, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 181: Kidnapped, Ch. 19-End

Published: July 18, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 180: Kidnapped, Ch. 7-18

Published: July 11, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 179: Kidnapped, Intro to Robert Louis Stevenson and Ch. 1-6

Published: July 4, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 178: The Best of Series- The Great Divorce, Ch. 11-End, Ep. 50

Published: June 27, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 177: The Best of Series The Great Divorce, Ch. 7-10, Ep. 49

Published: June 20, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 176: The Best of Series The Great Divorce, Ch. 2-6, Ep. 48

Published: June 13, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 175: The Best of Series The Great Divorce, Preface and Ch. 1, Ep. 47

Published: June 6, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 174: The Best of Series The Importance of Detective Fiction, Ep. 3

Published: May 30, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 173: The Best of Series Why Pastors Should Read Fiction, Ep. 137

Published: May 23, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 172: The Literary Life of Kiel Lemon

Published: May 16, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 171: Code of the Woosters, Part 3, Ch. 10-14

Published: May 9, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 170: Code of the Woosters, Part 2, Ch. 5-9

Published: May 2, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 169: Intro to P. G. Wodehouse, Code of the Woosters, Ch. 1-4

Published: April 25, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 168: The Best of Series Witches, Wizards, and Magic, Oh My!!, Ep. 104

Published: April 18, 2023, 5:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 167: The Best of Series The Literary Life of Timilyn Downey, Ep. 122

Published: April 11, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 166: Shakespeares Othello, Acts 4 & 5

Published: April 4, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 165: Shakespeares Othello, Act 3

Published: March 28, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 164: Shakespeares Othello, Acts 1 & 2

Published: March 21, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 163: Introduction to Shakespeares Othello

Published: March 14, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 162: "Ion" On Socratic Dialogue and Reading Plato

Published: March 7, 2023, 6:04 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 161: The Literary Life of Lia Techand

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 160: Aristotles Poetics Part 2

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 159: Aristotle's "Poetics", Part 1

Published: Feb. 14, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 158: Introduction to Aristotles Poetics

Published: Feb. 7, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 157: The Best of Series The Literary Life of Thomas Banks, Ep. 78

Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 156: The Best of Series Why Read Fairy Tales, Ep. 70

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 1 second

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Episode 155: The Best of Series The Literary Life of Wendi Capehart, Ep. 69

Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 154: The Best of Series What Is the Literary Life?, Ep. 1

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 153: Our Literary Lives of 2022

Published: Dec. 29, 2022, 3:03 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 152: Dracula At the Movies

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 151: The Literary Life Podcast Reading Challenge 2023

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 150: Dracula by Bram Stoker, Ch. 18-End

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 149: Dracula by Bram Stoker, Ch. 12-17

Published: Nov. 22, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 148: Dracula by Bram Stoker, Ch. 8-11

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes

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Episode 147: Dracula by Bram Stoker, Ch. 3-7

Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 146: Introduction to Dracula by Bram Stoker, Ch. 1 & 2

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 5:12 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 145: The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: A Conversation with Jason M. Baxter

Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 5:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 144: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Bk. 3, Ch. 4-End

Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 143: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Bk. 3, Ch. 1-3

Published: Oct. 4, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 142: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Book 2, Ch. 6-9

Published: Sept. 27, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 141: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Book 2, Ch. 1-5

Published: Sept. 20, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 140: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Book 1, Ch. 11-16

Published: Sept. 13, 2022, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 139: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Bk. 1, Ch. 1-10

Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 138: In Search of the Austen Adaptation: Sense and Sensibility

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 137: Why Pastors Should Read Fiction

Published: July 26, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 136: Two for 22 Reading Challenge Check-In

Published: July 19, 2022, 5:07 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 135: The Literary Life of Jone Rose

Published: July 12, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

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Episode 134: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Part 4

Published: June 7, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 133: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Part 3

Published: May 31, 2022, 5:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 132: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Part 2

Published: May 24, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 131: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Part 1

Published: May 17, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 130: "The Enchanted April" Film Adaptations

Published: May 3, 2022, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 129: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ch. 12-22

Published: April 26, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 128: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ch. 1-11

Published: April 19, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 127: The Literary Life of Kay Pelham

Published: March 29, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 126: "The Abolition of Man" by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 3

Published: March 22, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 125: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 2

Published: March 15, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 124: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 1

Published: March 8, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 123: In Search of the Austen Adaptation Emma

Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 122: The Literary Life of Timilyn Downey

Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 121: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Acts 4 and 5

Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 120: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Act III

Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 119: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Acts I and II

Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 118: An Intro to Shakespeare and A Midsummer Nights Dream

Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 117: Our 2021 Literary Life Reading Wrap-up

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 116: The Two for 22 Literary Life Reading Challenge

Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 115: In Search of the Austen Adaptation Pride and Prejudice

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 114: The Literary Life of Dr. Carolyn Weber

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 113: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 3, Ch. 9-17

Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 112: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 3, Ch. 1-8

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 111: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 2, Ch. 6-13

Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 110: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 109: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 2, Ch. 1-5

Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 108: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 1, Ch. 10-18

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 107: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 1, Ch. 1-9

Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 106: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Part 2

Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 105: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson, Part 1

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 104: Witches, Wizards, and Magic, Oh My!!

Published: Aug. 31, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 103: The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence

Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 102: The Literary Life of Atlee Northmore

Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 101: Reunion by Fred Uhlman

Published: July 27, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 34 seconds

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Celebrating Episode 100: Live Q&A with Patrons

Published: July 20, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 99: The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

Published: July 13, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 98: How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

Published: July 6, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 17 seconds

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Season 3, Episode 97: Antigone by Sophocles, Part 2

Published: June 29, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 96: Introduction to Antigone

Published: June 22, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 95: An Introduction to Edmund Spenser with Kelly Cumbee

Published: May 25, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 94: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Part 3

Published: May 18, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 93: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Part 2

Published: May 11, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 1 second

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Episode 92: "Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Part 1

Published: May 4, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 91: "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," Part 2

Published: April 27, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 90: The Death of Ivan Ilyich Part 1

Published: April 20, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 89: The Literary Life of Adrienne Freas

Published: April 13, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 88: How to Read Don Quixote

Published: April 6, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 87: The Literary Life of Wes Callihan

Published: March 16, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 86: Silas Marner by George Eliot, Ch. 16-End

Published: March 9, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 85: "Silas Marner" by George Eliot, Ch. 10-15

Published: March 2, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 84: Silas Marner by George Eliot, Ch. 4-9

Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 83: "Silas Marner" by George Eliot, Ch. 1-3

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 82: The Literary Life of Charlotte Mason

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 81: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 80: Why Read Old Books

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 79: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 78: The Literary Life of Thomas Banks

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 77: Our Literary Lives of 2020

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 76: The Literary Life 19 Books in 2021 Reading Challenge

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 75: Phantastes, Ch. 20-End

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 74: Phantastes, Ch. 15-19

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 73: Phantastes, Ch. 10-14

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 72: Phantastes, Ch. 5-9

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 71: Phantastes, Ch. 1-4

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 69: The Literary Life of Wendi Capehart

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 68: Til We Have Faces, Pt. 2, Ch. 1-4

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 67: Til We Have Faces, Ch. 16-21

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 66: Til We Have Faces, Ch. 12-15

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 65: Til We Have Faces, Ch. 8-11

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 64: Til We Have Faces, Ch. 6-7

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 63: Til We Have Faces, Ch. 3-5

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 62: The Literary Friendship of Dorothy and Jack with Gina Dalfonzo

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 61: Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 1-2

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 60: Why Read Pagan Myths

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 59: "Leaf by Niggle" by J. R. R. Tolkien, Part 2

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 58: "Leaf by Niggle" by J. R. R. Tolkien, Part 1

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 1 second

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Episode 57: On Fairy Stories by J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: July 28, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 56: The Literary Life of Emily Raible

Published: July 21, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 55: 20 for 2020 Reading Challenge Check-In

Published: June 30, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 54: Our Favorite Poems

Published: June 23, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 53: The Trojan Women, Part 2

Published: June 16, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 52: Intro to Greek Drama and The Trojan Women

Published: June 9, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 51: Discussing Simone Weil's Essay on Education

Published: June 2, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 50: The Great Divorce, Ch. 11-14

Published: May 19, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 49: The Great Divorce, Ch. 7-10

Published: May 12, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 48: The Great Divorce, Ch. 2-6

Published: May 5, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 47: The Great Divorce, Preface & Ch. 1

Published: April 28, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 46: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 3

Published: April 21, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 45: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 2

Published: April 14, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 44: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 1

Published: April 7, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 43: The Literary World of Oscar Wilde

Published: March 31, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 59 seconds

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Published: March 24, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 41: The Art of Writing, Part 2

Published: March 17, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 40: The Art of Writing, Part 1

Published: March 10, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 39: The Literary Life of Karen Glass

Published: March 3, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 38: "A Winter's Tale" Act 5

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 37: "A Winter's Tale" Act 4

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 36: A Winter's Tale, Act 3

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 35: "A Winter's Tale" Act 2

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 34: "A Winter's Tale" Act 1

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 33: An Introduction to A Winter's Tale

Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 32: The Literary Life of James Banks

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 31: Our Year in Reading

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 30: The Literary Life of Caitlin Beauchamp

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 29: Northanger Abbey, Ch. 25-End

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 28: Northanger Abbey, Ch. 18-24

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 27: Northanger Abbey, Ch. 11-17

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 26: Northanger Abbey, Ch. 3-10

Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 25: Northanger Abbey, Ch. 1-2

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 30 seconds

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Walking on Water by Madeleine L\'Engle

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

Fanny Burney

Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliff

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

The Castle of Ontranto by Horace Walpol

Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

Othello by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

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Episode 24: The Literary Life of Sally Thomas

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 6 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 13 seconds

Upcoming Events:

Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks will be presenting a 3-day webinar series on Charles Dickens\' A Christmas Carol on November 12-14. Register here to get lifetime access to the sessions.

Angelina will also be in Austin, TX at Christ Church on November 25, 2019. More information is available here.

My Father Drawing in an Upstairs Room

by Sally Thomas

Outside, on a live stirring backdrop of broad-handed green,
The black cat on her branch spreads her back toes and licks, licks, between.

He looks musingly at her, and through her, as if right now he
Saw some mystery imposed on \\u2014 or being born from \\u2014 the tree.

On the table, five charcoal-drawn children roughhouse in a whiteness
You might see as empty. You might discern in it the likeness

Of a person who waits and observes, is as happy to wait
Forever for something to happen beyond these five straight

Black figures like capering trees in a cosmos of snow.
In my mind the catalpa leaves roofing the morning still glow

Sun-heavy, alive. These five children he\\u2019s caught in their white
Fleet-foot moment perdure, as all shadows survive on daylight.

He\\u2019s looking at them, as in this long instant I\\u2019ve seen him.
Once more the cat spreads her black toes, once more licks between them.

Book List:

(Amazon Affiliate Links)

Fallen Water by Sally Thomas

Richeldis of Walsingham by Sally Thomas

Sound and Sense by Laurence Perrine

The Intellectual Life by Sertillanges

All the Silver Pennies

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Beowulf

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Marianne Moore

Elizabeth Bishop

The Book of the Red King by Marly Youmans

Mr. Either/Or by Aaron Poochigian

Pattiann Rogers

The Wheel on the School by Meinert DeJong

Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters

Sharon Kay Penman

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane

Landmarks by Robert McFarlane

Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford,\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

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Episode 23: An Experiment in Criticism, Ch. 10-End

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 7 seconds

Cindy and Angelina clear up some confusion about marginalia and what types of notes can help or hinder us in our reading. Finally, in discussing the epilogue, our hosts reiterate the purpose of reading as widening our souls and freeing ourselves to experience another person\'s perspective. Cindy asks if we will read with hubris, or humility? That makes all the difference.

Be sure to check out Thomas Banks\' next webinar, "Poetry and Classical Myth: The Influence of Greek and Roman Myth on English Poetry." The live stream will be on October 17, 2019, but the replay will be available soon afterward. Also, for our Patreon Fellows, please join us for a live private Q&A session on An Experiment in Criticism on October 23, 2019!

Listen to The Literary Life:

A Cat

by Edward Thomas

She had a name among the children;
But no one loved though someone owned
Her, locked her out of doors at bedtime
And had her kittens duly drowned.

In Spring, nevertheless, this cat
Ate blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales,
And birds of bright voice and plume and flight,
As well as scraps from neighbours\\u2019 pails.

I loathed and hated her for this;
One speckle on a thrush\\u2019s breast
Was worth a million such; and yet
She lived long, till God gave her rest.

Book List:

(Amazon Affiliate Links)

The Porch and the Cross by Kevin Vost

A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L\'Engle

The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Phillip and Carol Zaleski

The Mother Tongue by Kittredge & Arnold

Asimov\'s Guide to Shakespeare by Isaac Asimov

Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

Find Cindy at\\xa0https://cindyrollins.net\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/

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Episode 22: An Experiment in Criticism, Ch. 8-9

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 7 seconds

In covering chapter 9, Angelina and Cindy dig into the dangers of rushing to express an opinion about what we read, rather than getting ourselves out of the way when approaching a book. Cindy points to the many similarities between what Lewis says in these chapters and what Charlotte Mason says about true education.

Be sure to check out Thomas Banks\' next webinar, "Poetry and Classical Myth: The Influence of Greek and Roman Myth on English Poetry." The live stream will be on October 17, 2019, but the replay will be available soon afterward.

Rose-Cheeked Laura

by Thomas Campion

Rose-cheek\'d Laura, come,
Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty\'s
Silent music, either other
Sweetly gracing.

Lovely forms do flow
From concent divinely framed;
Heav\'n is music, and thy beauty\'s
Birth is heavenly.

These dull notes we sing
Discords need for helps to grace them;
Only beauty purely loving
Knows no discord,

But still moves delight,
Like clear springs renew\'d by flowing,
Ever perfect, ever in them-
Selves eternal.

Book List:

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Seeking God by Esther de Waal

The Great Code by Northrop Frye

Wuthering Heights by Emily Br\\xf6nte

Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

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Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

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Episode 21: An Experiment in Criticism, Ch. 5-7

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 15 seconds

Angelina and Cindy open today\'s discussion of C. S. Lewis\' An Experiment in Criticism with a recap of the terms that Lewis defines in chapters 5-7, starting with myth. They talk about what it means to have an "extra-literary" experience and how to cultivate the proper attitude of a good reader. Next Cindy and Angelina dig into the definition and benefits of literary fantasy versus the dangers of morbid fantasy. They talk about our deep need for stories of "the other" and have experiences with people and places that are not the same as our own.

Another big topic of conversation is the idea of literature being escapist, particularly fantasy and fairy stories. Angelina and Cindy talk about several things related to this idea: belief and disbelief, fiction versus nonfiction, and the wonder of childhood. Cindy brings up Lewis\' comments on the comic and what relation that has to the current popularity of the graphic novel. Angelina also explains why we shouldn\'t be looking to directly relate to a character in a novel in order to get something out of the book.

A Moment

by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

The clouds had made a crimson crown
Above the mountains high.
The stormy sun was going down
In a stormy sky.

Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
As if it had not been.

Book List:

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This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

King Solomon\'s Mines by H. Rider Haggard

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Phantastes by George MacDonald

Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis

The Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

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Episode 20: An Experiment in Criticism, Ch. 1-4

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 18: "The Vulture" by Samuel Johnson

Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 52 seconds

Welcome to the final episode of our summer series on short stories and essays! Today your hosts Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins are joined once again by Thomas Banks for their discussion of Samuel Johnson\'s essay "The Vulture." Before getting into the meat of the essay, Angelina talks about why she disagrees with her own commonplace quote on the purpose of poetry. In the process, she gives us a brief history of literary periods from the classical to the neoclassical and enlightenment.

Thomas shares some more biographical information on Samuel Johnson and his work. Cindy highlights both the important place and the danger of satire, which is a popular neoclassical form and the one used in Johnson\'s essay. The discussion ends with thoughts on why Johnson\'s essay was finally not included with the others in The Idler collection, as well as what his purpose may have been in writing "The Vulture."

Be sure to tune in again on September 17, 2019 for "The Literary Life of Greg Wilbur," followed by three weeks of episodes on C. S. Lewis\' An Experiment in Criticism. Our fall novel will be Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

Upcoming Events:

September 19: How to Love Poetry Webinar with Thomas Banks

A Farewell to Arms

by George Peele

His golden locks Time hath to silver turn\'d;
O Time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth \'gainst time and age hath ever spurn\'d,
But spurn\'d in vain; youth waneth by increasing:
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees;
And, lovers\' sonnets turn\'d to holy psalms,
A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,
And feed on prayers, which are Age his alms:
But though from court to cottage he depart,
His Saint is sure of his unspotted heart.

And when he saddest sits in homely cell,
He\'ll teach his swains this carol for a song,--
\'Blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well,
Curst be the souls that think her any wrong.\'
Goddess, allow this aged man his right
To be your beadsman now that was your knight.

Book List:

(Amazon affiliate links)

A Writer\'s Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham

Little Britches by Ralph Moody

The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson

Gulliver\'s Travels by Jonathon Swift

Bird Life in Wington by John Calvin Reid

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

Find Cindy at\\xa0https://cindyrollins.net\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/

Jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let\\u2019s get the book talk going!\\xa0http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

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Episode 17: "The Celestial Omnibus" by E. M. Forster

Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 1 second

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Episode 16: "Why I Write" by George Orwell

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 39 seconds

The topic of today\'s discussion on The Literary Life is George Orwell\'s essay "Why I Write." Angelina and Cindy kick off the conversation about how much they each identify with Orwell\'s description of his childhood. In his story of learning to write, we see many aspects of a good education, even his inclination to imitate other authors. An important point Angelina brings up is Orwell\'s own struggle against the calling he felt to write, in contrast to having an ambition to do so. Angelina brings up a related story about musician Gregory Alan Isakov, and Cindy reiterates the idea of why we need leisure in order to find our vocation.

Cindy and Angelina also bring out some of the qualities Orwell possessed that make a good writer. Maturity as a human being and as a master of a craft are crucial to certain forms of writing, as Orwell points out about his own work. Other topics of conversation include truth-telling in writing, the motives for writing according to Orwell, and the growing process of writers.

Summer of the Short Story:

Ep 17: "The Celestial Omnibus" by E. M. Forster

Ep 18: "Vulture on War" by Samuel Johnson

Live Bonus Episode on Patreon: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flanner O\'Connor on August 22, 2019

Upcoming Events:

August 26-29: Back to School Webinar with Cindy Rollins, Angelina Stanford, Thomas Banks and Adrienne Freas

September 22: How to Love Poetry Webinar with Thomas Banks

Veni, Creator Spiritus

by John Dryden

Creator Spirit, by whose aid
The world\'s foundations first were laid,
Come, visit ev\'ry pious mind;
Come, pour thy joys on human kind;
From sin, and sorrow set us free;
And make thy temples worthy Thee.

O, Source of uncreated Light,
The Father\'s promis\'d Paraclete!
Thrice Holy Fount, thrice Holy Fire,
Our hearts with heav\'nly love inspire;
Come, and thy Sacred Unction bring
To sanctify us, while we sing!

Plenteous of grace, descend from high,
Rich in thy sev\'n-fold energy!
Thou strength of his Almighty Hand,
Whose pow\'r does heav\'n and earth command:
Proceeding Spirit, our Defence,
Who do\'st the gift of tongues dispence,
And crown\'st thy gift with eloquence!

Refine and purge our earthly parts;
But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts!
Our frailties help, our vice control;
Submit the senses to the soul;
And when rebellious they are grown,
Then, lay thy hand, and hold \'em down.

Chase from our minds th\' Infernal Foe;
And peace, the fruit of love, bestow;
And, lest our feet should step astray,
Protect, and guide us in the way.

Make us Eternal Truths receive,
And practise, all that we believe:
Give us thy self, that we may see
The Father and the Son, by thee.

Immortal honour, endless fame,
Attend th\' Almighty Father\'s name:
The Saviour Son be glorified,
Who for lost Man\'s redemption died:
And equal adoration be,
Eternal Paraclete, to thee.

Book List:

(Amazon Affiliate Links)

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

Find Cindy at\\xa0https://cindyrollins.net\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/

Jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let\\u2019s get the book talk going!\\xa0http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

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Episode 15: "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 40 seconds

On today\'s episode of The Literary Life, Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins discuss Guy de Maupassant\'s short story "The Necklace." Also, don\'t forget to register for the Back to School online conference on August 26-29, 2019 with Cindy and Angelina, as well as Thomas Banks and Adrienne Freas! Before getting into the short story discussion, Cindy and Angelina chat about what a "commonplace book" is and how they each go about recording quotes and thoughts, including the QuoteBlock app.

First off, Angelina gives us a little background on the author Guy de Maupassant and some information on French naturalism. Then she digs into her thoughts on how this story is a fairy tale in reverse and what that might mean in context. Cindy points out the perfection of de Maupassant\'s writing and his economy of style. They also bring up some of the formal elements of the story, particularly the key role the reversal takes in the plot. The main themes they find in "The Necklace" touch on common human struggles with ambition, discontentment, loss, suffering and gratitude.

Summer of the Short Story:

Ep 16: "Why I Write" by George Orwell

Ep 17: "The Celestial Omnibus" by E. M. Forster

Ep 18: "Vulture on War" by Samuel Johnson

Live Bonus Episode on Patreon: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flanner O\'Connor

On First Looking Into Chapman\'s Homer

by John Keats

Much have I travell\'d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow\'d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star\'d at the Pacific\\u2014and all his men
Look\'d at each other with a wild surmise\\u2014
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Book List:

(Amazon Affiliate Links)

Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

In This House of Brede by Rumor Godden

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Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support!

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Episode 14: "The Adventures of a Shilling" by Joseph Addison

Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 19 seconds

Today on The Literary Life, Cindy Rollins and Angelina Stanford are joined by a special guest, Angelina\'s husband, Thomas Banks! This week\'s selection for our summer series is Joseph Addison\'s "The Adventures of a Shilling." This episode is packed with book references, so scroll down for links to the titles mentioned!

The conversation today kicks off with an attempt at defining the "essay" form and giving a brief history on its development. Thomas shares a little background information on Joseph Addison and his writing, as well as several other essayists who came before and after Addison. Thomas also talks about why essays are a significant part of his reading life. The conversation also spins off into a discussion of the importance of how we spend our leisure time.

Finally, our hosts chat about this week\'s essay, which gives highlights of England\'s history from the perspective of a silver coin. Addison\'s tale is full of humor and satire, as well as layers of social commentary and pathos.

Don\'t forget to register for the Back to School online conference coming up on August 26-29, 2019 so you don\'t miss out on this awesome opportunity to "repair the ruins" of your own education.

Summer of the Short Story:

Ep 15: "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant

Ep 16: "Why I Write" by George Orwell

Ep 17: "The Celestial Omnibus" by E. M. Forster

Ep 18: "Vulture on War" by Samuel Johnson

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

by John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent,
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0My true account, lest He returning chide;
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Either man\'s work or His own gifts. Who best
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed,
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0And post o\'er land and ocean without rest;
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0They also serve who only stand and wait."

Book List:

(Amazon Affiliate Links)

Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

Dove Descending by Thomas Howard

Four Quartets by T. S. Elliot

The Essays by Sir Frances Bacon

The Essays: A Selection by Michel de Montaigne

The Defendant by G. K. Chesterton

The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincy

Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Cato: A Tragedy by Joseph Addison

Gulliver\'s Travels and The Battle of the Books by Jonathon Swift

Support The Literary Life:

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Episode 13: "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield

Published: July 30, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 12: "A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls" by G. K. Chesterton

Published: July 23, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 11: "Araby" by James Joyce

Published: July 16, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 10: The Literary Life of Kelly Cumbee

Published: July 9, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 35 seconds

Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle

Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

The Space Trilogy (The Ransom Trilogy) by C. S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis

Realm of Numbers by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

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Support The Literary Life:

Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the \\u201cFriends and Fellows Community\\u201d on\\xa0Patreon. Thanks for your support!

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Episode 9: Are Women Human?

Published: June 11, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 8: Gaudy Night, Ch. 16-End

Published: June 4, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 7: Gaudy Night, Ch. 8-15

Published: May 28, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 10 seconds

In this episode of The Literary Life, Cindy Rollins and Angelina Stanford discuss chapters 8-15 of Dorothy L. Sayers\' book Gaudy Night. In addition to reviewing the plot points of interest in these chapters, Cindy and Angelina focus in on the interweaving of plot, theme, and setting in Gaudy Night. They talk about how Oxford is more than just a place in which the story is told, but is almost a character itself, as well as being the place where Lord Peter and Harriet can meet as equals.

Another recurring topic is the continuing conversation about what it means to be a woman and an intellectual, as well as how marriage changes both men and women. In these chapters, we see more of Harriet and Lord Peter\'s relationship, and we get to know Lord Peter in a fuller light.

Upcoming Show Schedule:

Episode 8 (June 4): Gaudy Night, ch 16-23, complete
Episode 9 (June 11): Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers

When You Are Old

by William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Book List:

The Getaway Car by Ann Patchett (included in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage)

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Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

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Episode 6: The Literary Life of Mary Jo Tate

Published: May 21, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds

Today on The Literary Life, your hosts Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins sit down for a chat with their friend and fellow reader, Mary Jo Tate. As well as being an avid reader, Mary Jo is an author, editor, teacher, book collector and single mother to 4 young men. A veteran homeschooler, Mary Jo is the author of Flourish: Balance for Homeschool Moms, and you can learn more about her and her work at FlourishAtHome.com.

In this interview, Angelina and Cindy talk with Mary Jo about her own background as a reader, beginning with her childhood memories of books. They discuss the influence of family, librarians and teachers on the life of a young reader. Mary Jo talks about different seasons of her reading life and gives some advice for the busy, exhausting time as a mother of young children. Another topic of discussion is how Mary Jo\'s education and profession grew out of her love of literature.

Upcoming Show Schedule:

Episode 7 (May 28): Gaudy Night ch 8-15
Episode 8 (June 4): Gaudy Night, ch 16-23, complete
Episode 9 (June 11): Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers

Book List:

(Amazon affiliate links)

Out of the Ashes by Anthony Esolen

One Writer\'s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle

The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Andrew Lang\'s Fairy Books

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At Home in Mitford by Jan KaronS

Ulysses

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It little profits that an idle king,\\xa0
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,\\xa0
Match\'d with an aged wife, I mete and dole\\xa0
Unequal laws unto a savage race,\\xa0
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.\\xa0
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink\\xa0
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy\'d\\xa0
Greatly, have suffer\'d greatly, both with those\\xa0
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when\\xa0
Thro\' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades\\xa0
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;\\xa0
For always roaming with a hungry heart\\xa0
Much have I seen and known; cities of men\\xa0
And manners, climates, councils, governments,\\xa0
Myself not least, but honour\'d of them all;\\xa0
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,\\xa0
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.\\xa0
I am a part of all that I have met;\\xa0
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro\'\\xa0
Gleams that untravell\'d world whose margin fades\\xa0
For ever and forever when I move.\\xa0
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,\\xa0
To rust unburnish\'d, not to shine in use!\\xa0
As tho\' to breathe were life! Life piled on life\\xa0
Were all too little, and of one to me\\xa0
Little remains: but every hour is saved\\xa0
From that eternal silence, something more,\\xa0
A bringer of new things; and vile it were\\xa0
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,\\xa0
And this gray spirit yearning in desire\\xa0
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,\\xa0
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.\\xa0

\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0This is my son, mine own Telemachus,\\xa0
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,\\u2014\\xa0
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil\\xa0
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild\\xa0
A rugged people, and thro\' soft degrees\\xa0
Subdue them to the useful and the good.\\xa0
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere\\xa0
Of common duties, decent not to fail\\xa0
In offices of tenderness, and pay\\xa0
Meet adoration to my household gods,\\xa0
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.\\xa0

\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:\\xa0
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,\\xa0
Souls that have toil\'d, and wrought, and thought with me\\u2014\\xa0
That ever with a frolic welcome took\\xa0
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed\\xa0
Free hearts, free foreheads\\u2014you and I are old;\\xa0
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;\\xa0
Death closes all: but something ere the end,\\xa0
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,\\xa0
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.\\xa0
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:\\xa0
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep\\xa0
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,\\xa0
\'T is not too late to seek a newer world.\\xa0
Push off, and sitting well in order smite\\xa0
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds\\xa0
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths\\xa0
Of all the western stars, until I die.\\xa0
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:\\xa0
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,\\xa0
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.\\xa0
Tho\' much is taken, much abides; and tho\'\\xa0
We are not now that strength which in old days\\xa0
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;\\xa0
One equal temper of heroic hearts,\\xa0
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will\\xa0
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

Find Cindy at\\xa0https://cindyrollins.net\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/

Jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let\\u2019s get the book talk going!\\xa0http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

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Episode 5: Gaudy Night, Ch. 4-7

Published: May 14, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 52 seconds

This week on The Literary Life, Angelina and Cindy discuss the next few chapters of Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers. In this episode, Angelina explores the question of why all the epigraphs opening each chapter are from Renaissance writers. Aside from recapping plot points, Cindy and Angelina also chat about the following topics: the unnatural nature of the crime and of the cloistered atmosphere; the gothic themes present in this novel; Harriet\'s lack of self-awareness; further contemplations on love and marriage.

Upcoming Show Schedule:

Episode 7 (May 28):\\xa0Gaudy Night ch 8-15
Episode 8 (June 4): Gaudy Night ch 16-23, complete
Episode 9 (June 11): Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers

Lot\'s Wife

by Anna Akhmatova (trans. by Richard Wilbur)

The just man followed then his angel guide
Where he strode on the black highway, hulking and bright;
But a wild grief in his wife\'s bosom cried,
Look back, it is not too late for a last sight

Of the red towers of your native Sodom, the square
Where once you sang, the gardens you shall mourn,
And the tall house with empty windows where
You loved your husband and your babes were born.

She turned, and looking on the bitter view
Her eyes were welded shut by mortal pain;
Into transparent salt her body grew,
And her quick feet were rooted in the plain.

Who would waste tears upon her? Is she not
The least of our losses, this unhappy wife?
Yet in my heart she will not be forgot
Who, for a single glance, gave up her life.

Book List:

Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1967 film adaptation)

Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers

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Connect with Us:

Find Angelina at \\xa0https://angelinastanford.com\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

Find Cindy at\\xa0https://cindyrollins.net\\xa0and on Facebook at\\xa0https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/

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