The Spouter-Inn

4.8(31개의 평가)
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Chris (a poet) and Suzanne (a professor) spent six years talking about “great books” (whatever that means), and are now talking about reading (and all the things that means).

6월 18일

The Adversary / Moby-Dick

Michael Crummey’s novel The Adversary and rereading Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick alongside Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem.

1시간 14분
5월 5일

The Year of Magical Thinking / Red X

Joan Didion’s essay The Year of Magical Thinking and David Demchuk’s novel Red X.

1시간 11분
4월 1일

On the Natural History of Destruction / Dhalgren

W.G. Sebald’s essay collection On the Natural History of Destruction and Samuel R. Delany’s novel Dhalgren.

1시간 7분
2월 25일

Peter Hujar’s Day / On Elizabeth Bishop

Linda Rosenkrantz’s Peter Hujar’s Day and Colm Tóibín’s On Elizabeth Bishop.

57분
2월 14일

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville / Voyage Around My Room

We look at some old travel literature, with The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Around My Room.

1시간 14분
2025. 12. 30.

The Gospel According to Mark / On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

The Gospel According to Mark (and some recent queer retellings of Jesus’ life story), and John Milton’s poem On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.

1시간 27분
2025. 12. 01.

Waiting for Godot / Theory of Water

Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.

1시간 1분
2025. 11. 28. · 보너스

Bonus: John Nicholas on Cry of the Ancients

Suzanne talks with John Nicholas, whose parents Grey Owl and Little Pigeon wrote Cry of the Ancients (1974).

49분

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31개의 평가

Fun grad school show

2023. 06. 08.

J P Dukes

Suzanne and Chris balance literary conventional wisdom with first impressions and close readings. Listening, you place the book (usually a book) in its historical context, but also get a dose of skepticism and subjective literary criticism that makes you lean into the radio. Great show!
Some requests

2020. 10. 27.

Megerik

Graham Greene!!
Suzanne talks too fast

2021. 11. 05.

cocovm

Suzanne ruins an otherwise excellent podcast by talking too fast to the point she is often unintelligible. Slow down.
Soooo much better than my office book club

2019. 09. 15.

Stevil Dead

This show is insightful and the book choices are so much better than the many Joe Businessman choices we are stuck with in our office book club. The books discussed here I have actually read or have always wanted to read, and have not much to do with Arts of Wars it whatever sociopath training manuals the corporate types at work pick to self gloss. Thank you for giving me a sane place to come to for great discussions about really great books.

Chris (a poet) and Suzanne (a professor) spent six years talking about “great books” (whatever that means), and are now talking about reading (and all the things that means).