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- #44: Book Launch Event for "Time & the Temple"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by Sofia Carozza, a research and future physician, and Luke Burgis, author of "Wanting" and the forthcoming "The One & the 99" for the book launch of “Time & the Temple,” by Luigi Giussani, published by Slant Books.
1 hr 9 min - #43: Book Launch for "What's Possible"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet Robert Cording for the book launch of “What's Possible: New & Selected Poems,” published by Slant Books.
56 min - #42: The Art of the Review
SlantCast hosts Gregory Wolfe & Emily Kwilinski are joined by author and critic Joel Miller to talk about book reviews and how books are discovered and shared.
59 min - #41: Book Launch Event for "Invisibilia"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by fiction writer Tom Howard for the book launch of “Invisibilia,” published by Slant Books.
1 hr 14 min - #40: Book Launch Event for "The Future of Love"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet John Poch for the book launch of “Brooding Upon the Waters,” published by Slant Books.
1 hr 3 min - #39: What is "Humanism"?
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by distinguished Renaissance scholar Erika Rummel to discuss the history of humanism with a focus on the life and achievements of Desiderius Erasmus.
1 hr 1 min - #38: What Literature Tells Us about the Need for Community
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by the new managing editor of Slant Books, Emily Kwilinski, to discuss the topic of her doctoral thesis on the theme of community in Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.
1 hr 7 min - #37: Book Launch Event for "James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by four distinguished poets to celebrate the publication of Baron Wormser's posthumous poetry collection, “James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette,” published by Slant Books.
58 min - #36: "What is Close Reading?"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by William E. Cain, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal for a conversation about the meaning and value of "Close Reading" and why the practice is championed by Slant Books.
1 hr 12 min - #35: Book Launch Event for "Brooding Upon the Waters"
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by Howard Schaap for the book launch of “Brooding Upon the Waters,” published by Slant Books.
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Online book launches, readings, conversations about a wide range of literary topics -- welcome to SlantCast, the official podcast of Slant Books. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press…
specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres. Slant books are marked by the kind of meticulous craft and passion for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.