Bedrosian Bookclub Podcast USC Bedrosian Center

Great books, interesting discussion. Highly recommend!

This is a great podcast—I listen to almost every episode. The variety of selections—topical variety, variety of forms (novels, essays, research, poetry) & variety of guests allows the podcast to avoid any mundane repetition. I love Lisa Schweitzer, my favorite recurring guest. She has an amazing appreciation and understanding of the very different forms of books (whereas some of the other guests, as more academically-inclined, sometimes seem distracted by it). I also live Raphael, the host. He has that critical outlook that every good moderator possesses—skepticism. I look forward to the podcast each month.

I love the books they choose for this podcast. It has led me to several great novels and non-fiction studies. And I appreciate the well-informed, thoughtful, articulate tone of the discussion.
But OTOH, several of the regulars are just too long-winded and bossy and interruptive - I often feel like I'm listening to 2 students being lectured by a professor, or 2 young scholars waiting patiently while the senior person on a academic panel talks on and on. I think the speakers need more self-awareness and restraint (don't interrupt each other! stop your comment before it becomes a monologue!) and the editor could be more interventionist.