Poet, publicist, and reading series host Carrie Olivia Adams joins us to talk about rereading, problematic literature, and bringing people together.

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Episode artwork: Marcel Proust, by Otto Wegener, 1895 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Bashō

Aase Berg Dark Matter

Joanna Biggs A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Black Ocean

Jacques Bouveresse Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious

Joseph Clayton Mills

Józef Czapski Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Lydia Davis

Toi Derricotte The Undertaker's Daughter

Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann Things Are Against Us

William Faulkner

Nikky Finney

Sigmund Freud

Martin Heidegger Poetry, Language, Thought

Susan Howe

Kobayashi Issa

June Jordan

James Joyce Ulysses

Hubert McAlexander

Elsa Morante

Kelly Norman Ellis

Marjorie Perloff Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

The Plagiarists

Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust The Prisoner

Marcel Proust Swann's Way

Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack, and Honey

Janaka Stucky

Frank X. Walker

Anna Wiener Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

Mary Wollstonecraft The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

Andrew Zawacki