AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

For Monday, June 1

For Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Reading The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 1-5

Listen to a message from Phi Eta Sigma faculty adviser to graduating college seniors with tips on how to mark this special occasion during a time of social distancing.  Congratulations Class of 2020! 

Mentioned in passing: Malcolm Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There"; Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" (speech); Olaudah Equiano's Autobiography; Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; "Wicked" (musical).

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Introduce yourself to Gore Vidal’s Burr (1973) with a book-club discussion of its first line. An “it” book from 1973

Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, Hamilton (musical), Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (biography), Leonora Sansay’s The Secret History: The Horrors of Santo Domingo, Michael Drexler and Ed White’s The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr, Best Enemies (documentary), Cross Fire (tv show), Nixon (film), Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Washington Irving, The Onion (satire), Saturday Night Live, Shakespeare in Love (film), Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Merwyn, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln

Tina Jordan article in NYTimes here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/beach-reads-summer.html

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Introduce yourself to Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House (2019) with a book-club discussion of its first line.

Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and Truth and Beauty, Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face, Elizabeth McCracken (author), Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things, Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Bethany Frankel, A Place of Yes, James Joyce’s Dubliners, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Olive Ann Burns’s Cold Sassy Tree, Noah Saterstorm (artist), Parnassus Books (bookstore)

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Get in touch @profomalley

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