Episodes
Episode 49: Okay, Boomer
It’s the battle of the generations with Ivan Turgenev’s work Fathers and Sons!
Episode 48: Sometimes Bigger is Better
I tackle a book bigger than my first car, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and share my absolute joy in discovering that it is honestly an amazing book.
Episode 47: Dostoevsky, The Psych Guy
This week, I’m talking Dostoevsky, a writer I respect but am not necessarily a fan of. Don’t worry, I was gentle. This is not a hate show.
Episode 46: Collateral Dead
We’re doing another mini-series! This time, on Russian novelists! As we should, we start at the beginning with the author of the first Russian Novel, Nikolai Gogol and his book Dead Souls.
Episode 45: Her Best Is Her Last
We revisit Jane Austen with her final work, Persuasion. Seriously, her father is awful.
Episode 44: The Remaining Bits
This is the third and final episode in our Arthurian mini-series! I talk Camelot, the Round Table, and the knights who sat there.
Episode 43: Good Guys Written by Bad Men
Part two of our Arthurian miniseries, this week I talk about Le Morte d’Arthur and the complicated i.e. messy man who wrote it, Sir Thomas Malory.
Episode 42: History and Chivalry Oh My!
This is part one of the mini-series on Arthurian Legend! Today it’s the history of the lore and my thoughts on chivalric romances.
Episode 41: Pronouncing Goethe Correctly Feels Wrong
We talk deals with the devil and real life alchemists while I make a case for Goethe’s Faust.