Let's talk Lit!
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Podcast Description
All-but-done, beer-loving guy with two Master's degrees who never wrote a dissertation.
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ExplicitIn the Shadow of no Towers | Today's Let's Talk Lit! is part two of my discussion with my friend Trevor Dodge (http://www.trevordodge.com) (you can find part 1 here (http://letstalklit.com/2009/06/14/dantes-inferno-the-video-game/)), where we begin discussing Spiegelman's In the Shadow of no Towers, 9/11, and a bit of Don DeLillo. It's a long rambling discussion that stretches over forty minutes long, but we touch on some interesting bits, I think. The discussion will continue in another podcast episode to be released later this week where we'll continue our 9/11 discussion and talk some about David Foster Wallace. Please let us know what you think in the comments below. | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDante’s Inferno, the video game | Today's Let's Talk Lit! is the first part of what is going to be a multipart conversation with my friend, Trevor Dodge (http://trevordodge.com/). In this segment, Trevor introduces himself and then we discuss Dante's Inferno (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NX4DUQ?ie=UTF8&tag=3650anda12inc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001NX4DUQ)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3650anda12inc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001NX4DUQ), the video game, as a cultural artifact and its connection with The Divine Comedy. I decided to bring it up, as Trevor wrote an interesting essay about the video game over at First Wall Rebate: Dante’s Inferno: The Age Of Anti-Intellectual Property (http://firstwallrebate.com/?p=171). This leads into a discussion of Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670915416?ie=UTF8&tag=3650anda12inc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670915416)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3650anda12inc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670915416), which we will begin discussing in the next installment of this multi-part episode. The music I use in the intro to this episode is an excellent mashup of Jay-Z and The Cure (http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009/06/11/cure-jay-z-awesome-who-knew/). | 6/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit“In the South” by Salman Rushdie | Sorry about how completely rambling today's podcast is, but I haven't done one of these in a couple of weeks and wanted to get something up. I'm still plugging away at DeLillo's Falling Man: A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416546065?ie=UTF8&tag=3650anda12inc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416546065)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3650anda12inc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1416546065), but I've been reading a lot of other things as well, including this short story by Salman Rushdie (http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/features/salmanrushdie/), "In the South," which recently appeared in the New Yorker. Today's podcast discusses this story. Also, I'm going to have a few guests on the podcast soon (hopefully), including Trevor Dodge (http://trevordodge.com/), whom I attended Illinois State University with and whom managed to avoid falling out of Academentia, as I did, and my former co-worker Chris Miller (http://www.unquietdesperation.com/), the lead developer of Podiobooks.com (http://www.podiobooks.com/) and a Parsec-award nominated podcaster. Subscribe to Let's Talk Lit on iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=313897505). | 6/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe One in which C.K. rambles for 40 minutes | So I started out today's podcast thinking that I was only going to talk for a little while about what I had been reading and what I wanted to read, without really talking much at all about Don DeLillo's Falling Man: A Novel | 5/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDeLillo’s Falling Man, The Body Artist, performance art and perception | After reading the first four chapters of the book, I decided to put together this quick discussion of some possible points of interest to focus on while reading Don DeLillo's Falling Man: A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416546065?ie=UTF8&tag=3650anda12inc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416546065)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3650anda12inc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1416546065). Given that the "Falling Man" in the text is actually a performance artist, you may want to read DeLillo's 2001 novella, The Body Artist (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0330484966?ie=UTF8&tag=3650anda12inc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0330484966)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3650anda12inc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0330484966), whose main character is, as the title indicates, a body artist. One theme that is already starting to jump out at me while reading, and which I discuss in the podcast, is the theme of perception. How do Americans—and perhaps even more specifically, New Yorkers—perceive both themselves and events in a 21st Century world post September 11th? | 4/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitIntroducing Let’s Talk Lit! | There's nothing much to hear in this first podcast episode. It's just me introducing the idea behind the podcast and the first book that I'll be discussing in the next podcast, should you want to read along: Don DeLillo's Falling Man: A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416546065?ie=UTF8&tag=3650anda12inc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416546065)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3650anda12inc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1416546065). If you're interested in participating in the podcast or joining the Let's Talk Lit! book club, leave a comment. Today's episode: Let's Talk Lit! Introduction (http://media.letstalklit.com.s3.amazonaws.com/lets-talk-lit-introduction.mp3) | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 6 Episodes |
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