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In late March 2020, in the first few weeks of the social distancing brought
about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris and Suzanne checked in with a few
friends about how they’re handling this new stress and isolation, and what (if
anything) they’re reading right now.
We hope you’re all doing well. We would love to
know what you’re reading.
Our Guests.
Irina Dumitrescu is a professor of medieval
literature at the University of Bonn, but she also has a secret life as a
writer of creative non-fiction, especially essays—including one published last
year in a volume called How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing,
Sound,
co-edited by Suzanne along with Kaitlin Heller. Most recently, she had an
article in the Times Literary Supplement titled “How to Write Well: Rules,
Style and the ‘Well-made Sentence’”.
Cord J. Whitaker is a Philadelphia native
whose lifelong relationship with the African Methodist Episcopal Church led
him to fall in love with Chaucer and medieval literature. Today an associate
professor at Wellesley and an internationally known
speaker, Whitaker regularly writes and lectures on
blackness and the Middle Ages, on white supremacist deployments of the Middle
Ages, and on African American political medievalism. His most recent book is
Black Metaphors: How Modern Race Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking.
Oriana Schwindt is a freelance
writer based in New York, with bylines in New
York Magazine, Vice, and Vox, and she co-hosts By-The-Bywater, a Tolkien podcast right here on
Megaphonic FM. She is thinking about restarting her own podcast about grift in
America (it’s called American
Grift). In
2017, she experienced this grift firsthand on a crowdfunded reporting trip to
the geographic center of every state in
America. Yep, she did all 50. No, your
state isn’t her favorite.
Karla Mallette is a professor of Italian
and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work
focuses on the relationship between literary traditions in the medieval
Mediterranean, especially Arabic, Latin, and Romance vernaculars. Her earlier
books include The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100–1250, and
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean, and
she is just finishing a new one called Lives of the Great Languages:
Cosmopolitan Languages in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Show Notes.
Irina Dumitrescu, ed.: Rumba Under
Fire. [Free PDF!]
Our friend Nadia is the host of The Opposite Of
Lonely.
L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz.
Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore: Watchmen.
Walter Mosely: Futureland.
The Wizard of Oz and the gold
standard.
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass.
Octavia Butler: Seed to Harvest.
Polygon’s video on Animal Crossing (and translating its fake
language).
Dante: Inferno, trans. Allan Mandelbaum.
Dante: Purgatorio and
Paradiso, trans. Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M.
Durling.
Kengo Hanazawa: I Am a Hero.
Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting: Velvet.
Isabel Greenberg: Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the
Brontës.
Mary Szybist: Incarnadine.
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron 6.10: Friar
Cipolla shows off relics.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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In late March 2020, in the first few weeks of the social distancing brought
about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris and Suzanne checked in with a few
friends about how they’re handling this new stress and isolation, and what (if
anything) they’re reading right now.
We hope you’re all doing well. We would love to
know what you’re reading.
Our Guests.
Irina Dumitrescu is a professor of medieval
literature at the University of Bonn, but she also has a secret life as a
writer of creative non-fiction, especially essays—including one published last
year in a volume called How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing,
Sound,
co-edited by Suzanne along with Kaitlin Heller. Most recently, she had an
article in the Times Literary Supplement titled “How to Write Well: Rules,
Style and the ‘Well-made Sentence’”.
Cord J. Whitaker is a Philadelphia native
whose lifelong relationship with the African Methodist Episcopal Church led
him to fall in love with Chaucer and medieval literature. Today an associate
professor at Wellesley and an internationally known
speaker, Whitaker regularly writes and lectures on
blackness and the Middle Ages, on white supremacist deployments of the Middle
Ages, and on African American political medievalism. His most recent book is
Black Metaphors: How Modern Race Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking.
Oriana Schwindt is a freelance
writer based in New York, with bylines in New
York Magazine, Vice, and Vox, and she co-hosts By-The-Bywater, a Tolkien podcast right here on
Megaphonic FM. She is thinking about restarting her own podcast about grift in
America (it’s called American
Grift). In
2017, she experienced this grift firsthand on a crowdfunded reporting trip to
the geographic center of every state in
America. Yep, she did all 50. No, your
state isn’t her favorite.
Karla Mallette is a professor of Italian
and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work
focuses on the relationship between literary traditions in the medieval
Mediterranean, especially Arabic, Latin, and Romance vernaculars. Her earlier
books include The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100–1250, and
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean, and
she is just finishing a new one called Lives of the Great Languages:
Cosmopolitan Languages in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Show Notes.
Irina Dumitrescu, ed.: Rumba Under
Fire. [Free PDF!]
Our friend Nadia is the host of The Opposite Of
Lonely.
L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz.
Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore: Watchmen.
Walter Mosely: Futureland.
The Wizard of Oz and the gold
standard.
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass.
Octavia Butler: Seed to Harvest.
Polygon’s video on Animal Crossing (and translating its fake
language).
Dante: Inferno, trans. Allan Mandelbaum.
Dante: Purgatorio and
Paradiso, trans. Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M.
Durling.
Kengo Hanazawa: I Am a Hero.
Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting: Velvet.
Isabel Greenberg: Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the
Brontës.
Mary Szybist: Incarnadine.
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron 6.10: Friar
Cipolla shows off relics.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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