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Wesley Schantz
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Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life: O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. - The Winter's Tale You're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski

  1. 1D AGO

    Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Canto II)

    Of shipwrecks and sex on the beach, with sundry learned allusions. Thanks for listening.

    46 min

  2. 3D AGO

    The ‘Globetrotter’ Series of Maps for the Traveller - Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman

    or, "it feels as if the whole city’s looking out for us…" The first in a series of discussions of the companion books, the little books published between His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, beginning with Lyra's Oxford. With continual reference to His Dark Materials and (spoilers) The Book of Dust. An example of a Baedecker on Bohemia: https://aba.org.uk/assets/catalogues/rarebooks@shapero.com/Baedeker2020.pdf On Bohemia and its non-existent coastline in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale: https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/bohemia-winters-tale-seacoast/ (and almost all Pullman's stories are very much winters' tales, aren't they...)The article in the Guardian cribbed from for the epigraph: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jul/27/booksforchildrenandteenagers.philippullman Interview with Margaret Kean: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/philip-pullman-lyras-oxford-bodleian-library-masterclass Unveiling the gargoyles: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/gargoyles-unveiled-0 And a talk at Jericho's St Barnabas: https://www.youtube.com/live/WhbvkC3QZLY Compare Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist; Philip Goff's Galileo's Error; Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity... I've also been reading Kristen Poole’s Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination, and finding it enormously helpful and interesting. Thanks for listening! https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2026/01/out-of-ground-reading-book-of-dust-by.html

    2h 12m

  3. 5D AGO

    Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Conclusions, Tentatively (ep 5)

    As far as Zeal, at least, and our first scrape with Lavos in the main storyline. Outlines are submitted and awaiting feedback from the editors at Psychgeist. Will it be the black wind blows or memories of green for us? Time will tell! Thanks for listening.

    40 min

  4. 6D AGO

    Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Canto I)

    Launching our new series on Byron's comedic epic Don Juan (rhymes with "new one"). Thanks for listening.

    53 min

  5. FEB 21

    Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Sources on Dreams and Death Peak (ep 4)

    Many a reference for your consideration, with thanks to the folks at Psychgeist. See https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/chrono-trigger/ for more

    27 min

  6. FEB 20

    Conversation with David Nixon on The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 7)

    Many thanks to David Nixon, Associate Pastor at Carrubbers Christian Centre - http://www.carrubbers.org/ Apologies for the abrupt cut-off at the end of the episode. Our connection was severed by the parsimonious razor of zoom... Recommended reading: "The Gospel in Secular Scotland: in Conversation with David Nixon" - https://www.solas-cpc.org/the-gospel-in-secular-scotland-in-conversation-with-david-nixon/ "Engaging with Pullman" series of reflections on Solas - https://www.solas-cpc.org/engaging-with-pullman-part-five-pullman-on-alienation-and-the-argument-from-desire/ - Part One: Why I’ll be watching ‘His Dark Materials’ and so should you - Part Two: Philip Pullman and the Power of Stories - Part Three: Pullman on God and the Church - Part Four: On Dust and the Signals of Transcendence - Part Five: On Alienation and the Argument from Desire Within which you'll also find references to Tolkien, Lewis, and a number of other contemporary thinkers, including Philip Goff and Sharon Dirckx, mentioned in our chat and well worth checking out. Thanks for listening! More on this project: https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2026/01/out-of-ground-reading-book-of-dust-by.html

    39 min

  7. FEB 17

    Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (pt 3 ch 7-8, pts 4 and 5)

    We wrap up our discussion of this challenging, beguiling, and not altogether satisfying work by Nabokov, then begin to look ahead to our next book, Byron's Don Juan. Thanks for listening.

    1h 7m

  8. FEB 16

    Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (Pt 3 ch 1-6)

    RIP Lucette, we hardly knew you!

    51 min
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Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life: O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. - The Winter's Tale You're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski

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  • Creator
    Wesley Schantz
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    349
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Wesley Schantz
  • Show Website
    Bookwarm Games