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The Joy of Serious Literature Bryant Alan Davis
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The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.
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Episode 10 | The Literature of Celebrity | Frank Sinatra has a Cold and Other Essays by Gay Talese
When we think about literature, the last thing that comes to mind is the celebrity interview. Yet in the hands of the journalist Gay Talese, the lives of the famous are laid bear with all the insight, rhetorical verve, beauty, and tragedy of the best of short stories.
Join our wayward host as he examines the writing of Gay Talese, contemplates the minute examination of the famous, and basks in the glory of the greatest essay ever written about losing.
Frank Sinatra has a Cold on This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/574/sinatras-100th-birthday -
Episode 9 | The Old Bureaucrat and the Goose | Freeing a Migrant Goose by Bai Juyi
The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.
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Episode 8 | The Genius of Decadence | The Wings by Yi Sang
The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.
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Episode 7 | One Single Haiku by Richard Wright | Haiku #31 by Richard Wright
The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.
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Episode 6 | The Wages of Ugliness | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.
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Episode 5 | What Makes a Genius Writer a Genius? | Report on the Thing by Clarice Lispector
The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.