Podcasts Arts Open Book The What and the How

The What and the How

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 4:20 p.m.

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In this inaugural episode, I describe the podcast's coverage and format, and then introduce myself and my motives for hosting the series. I conclude: "Think of the episodes in this series as a set of exploratory essays, of varying lengths, gathering evidence from sources on some central topic. The topics will vary, but each episode of Open Book will (I hope) do just what it says on the tin: open a book to your mind."

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Here are the five book titles I'll cover this season:

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  1. Miguel de Cervantes\\u2019s Don Quixote (Part 1, 1605; Part 2, 1615; we\\u2019re reading selections from the 2003 Edith Grossman translation);
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  2. Jane Austen\\u2019s Northanger Abbey (1803; we\\u2019re using the 2013 David M. Shapard edition);
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  3. David Treuer\\u2019s The Translation of Dr Apelles (2006);
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  4. John Milton\\u2019s Paradise Lost (1667; in the 2005 Norton edition of Gordon Teskey; the more recent 2020 edition appeared too late for this series); and
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  5. selections from Metaphysical Poetry (Colin Burrow\\u2019s 2006 Penguin anthology).
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