The Dark Academicals

Epsiode 6.5: ‘Summer Sons’ by Lee Mandelo


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‘Summer Sons’ by Lee Mandelo is taking us to Vanderbilt and we are so excited about this one!

This sounds like everything that we love in a novel and we’re really looking forward to seeing how it measures up against our examinations.

A queer Southern Gothic with ‘academic intrigue’?Bring. It. On.

In this episode we discuss:

- When the Southern Gothic meets just…the Southern

- The atmosphere and the cloying humidity of the novel

- Vanderbilt and the academic possibilities

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