The Joy of Serious Literature

By Bryant Alan Davis

The internet's last best hope for the cultural redemption of literary criticism.... more

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November 23, 2018 Episode 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
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30min
January 17, 2018 Episode 9 | The Old Bureaucrat and the Goose | Freeing a Migrant Goose by Bai Juyi
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22min
October 17, 2017 Episode 8 | The Genius of Decadence | The Wings by Yi Sang
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28min
August 15, 2017 Episode 7 | One Single Haiku by Richard Wright | Haiku #31 by Richard Wright
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28min
July 10, 2017 Episode 6 | The Wages of Ugliness | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
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42min
June 01, 2017 Episode 5 | What Makes a Genius Writer a Genius? | Report on the Thing by Clarice Lispector
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19min
April 30, 2017 Episode 4 | I Am Not Your Theologian | Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
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29min
March 21, 2017 Episode 3 | Lu Xun and the Birth of Modern Chinese Litereature | The Real Story of Ah-Q by Lu Xun
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31min
February 03, 2017 Episode 2 | The Tyranny of Conformity | The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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34min
November 22, 2016 Episode 1: The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura by Roberto Bolaño
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19min

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How many episodes does The Joy of Serious Literature have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.