53 min

Invisible Man with Phil Simpkin Lit Matters

    • Books

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.” If you’ve spent your life always asking that all important question—“Why”—then, this is the episode for you. Lucky Episode number 13 sees Chris joined by the multi-talented Phil Simpkin to discuss Ralph Ellison’s American classic, Invisible Man. Phil is the lead singer/lead guitarist for the highly successful Reggae band The Simpkin Project, as well as a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Orange Coast College.
Books discussed during this episode:
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
The Republic by Plato’s
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Check out Phil’s amazing music at The Simpkin Project  and his other musical suggestions on Spotify, Amazon Music, or other places where you download tunes:
The Simpkin Project
The Abyssianians
The Gladiators
Burning Spear

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.” If you’ve spent your life always asking that all important question—“Why”—then, this is the episode for you. Lucky Episode number 13 sees Chris joined by the multi-talented Phil Simpkin to discuss Ralph Ellison’s American classic, Invisible Man. Phil is the lead singer/lead guitarist for the highly successful Reggae band The Simpkin Project, as well as a Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Orange Coast College.
Books discussed during this episode:
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
The Republic by Plato’s
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Check out Phil’s amazing music at The Simpkin Project  and his other musical suggestions on Spotify, Amazon Music, or other places where you download tunes:
The Simpkin Project
The Abyssianians
The Gladiators
Burning Spear

53 min