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November 23, 2018Episode 10 | The Literature of Celebrity | Frank Sinatra has a Cold and Other Essays by Gay Talese When we think about literature, the last thing that comes to mind is the celebrity interview. Yet in the hands of the journalist Gay Talese, the lives of the famous are laid bear with all the insight, rhetorical verve, beauty, and tragedy of the best of short stories.
Join our wayward host as he examines the writing of Gay Talese, contemplates the minute examination of the famous, and basks in the glory of the greatest essay ever written about losing.
Frank Sinatra has a Cold on This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/574/sinatras-100th-birthday
...more January 17, 2018Episode 9 | The Old Bureaucrat and the Goose | Freeing a Migrant Goose by Bai Juyi The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more October 17, 2017Episode 8 | The Genius of Decadence | The Wings by Yi Sang The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more August 15, 2017Episode 7 | One Single Haiku by Richard Wright | Haiku #31 by Richard Wright The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more July 10, 2017Episode 6 | The Wages of Ugliness | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more June 01, 2017Episode 5 | What Makes a Genius Writer a Genius? | Report on the Thing by Clarice Lispector The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more April 30, 2017Episode 4 | I Am Not Your Theologian | Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more March 21, 2017Episode 3 | Lu Xun and the Birth of Modern Chinese Litereature | The Real Story of Ah-Q by Lu Xun The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more February 03, 2017Episode 2 | The Tyranny of Conformity | The Vegetarian by Han Kang The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more November 22, 2016Episode 1: The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura by Roberto Bolaño The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism....more
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