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Charlotte Gordon

Frankenstein

with Charlotte Gordon · 14 episodes

  1. 1 The Lie About the Dream
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  1. 2 Letters from the Ice
  2. 3 Fathers, Not Science
  3. 4 Birth, Backwards
  4. 5 The Two Marys
  5. 6 Checked
  6. 7 Team Monster
  7. 8 The Creature Speaks
  8. 9 Greet the Stranger
  9. 10 The Man Who Wouldn't Marry
  10. 11 The Female, Destroyed
  11. 12 Her Name on It
  12. 13 The Conjurer
  13. 14 In Continuation
Clancy Martin

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

with Clancy Martin · 30 episodes

  1. 1 The Poetic Life
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  1. 2 How to Read a Prophet
  2. 3 The Saint Has Not Heard
  3. 4 Bathroom-Wall Nietzsche
  4. 5 The Last Man Checks His Credit Score
  5. 6 The Tightrope
  6. 7 Camel, Lion, Child
  7. 8 Other Worlds
  8. 9 The Garden and the Pale Criminal
  9. 10 Write with Blood
  10. 11 He's a Fool Who Stays Alive
  11. 12 The Coldest Monster
  12. 13 Moralizers
  13. 14 A Thousand and One Goals
  14. 15 The Whip
  15. 16 The Bitter Cup
  16. 17 Die at the Right Time
  17. 18 Remain True to the Earth
  18. 19 The Pitying and the Priests
  19. 20 Tarantulas
  20. 21 The Most Falsified Idea
  21. 22 Scholars, Poets, and Smoke
  22. 23 Thus I Willed It
  23. 24 The Gateway
  24. 25 The Long Way Home
  25. 26 The Convalescent
  26. 27 What the Night Whispered
  27. 28 The Higher Men
  28. 29 The Murderer of God
  29. 30 The Sign
Derren Brown

Meditations

with Derren Brown · 23 episodes

  1. 1 The Magician and the Emperor
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  1. 2 A Weak Way In
  2. 3 Green or Blue
  3. 4 Desire, Action, Assent
  4. 5 The Meaning of Life Is That It Ends
  5. 6 Vain Hopes
  6. 7 Authorship
  7. 8 Fire and Breath
  8. 9 The Judgment Machine
  9. 10 Virtue Is Its Own Reward
  10. 11 People Who Smell Like Goats
  11. 12 The Happy-Clappy Years
  12. 13 Anima, Pneuma, Psyche
  13. 14 Wrestling, Not Dancing
  14. 15 Talent Plus Energy
  15. 16 The Third Death
  16. 17 Practising Death
  17. 18 The Skull on the Desk
  18. 19 Are You Ever Going to Be Good Enough?
  19. 20 Children as Leaves
  20. 21 Boogies
  21. 22 All Is As Thinking Makes It So
  22. 23 The Actor Leaves the Stage
Garth Greenwell

The Golden Bowl

with Garth Greenwell · 21 episodes

  1. 1 A Romp, Dictated
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  1. 2 Cruising and the Coin
  2. 3 He Knew, He Knew, He Knew
  3. 4 The Crack and the Ricordo
  4. 5 A Church in the Square
  5. 6 A Book Without Villains
  6. 7 Nothing Happens, Everything Changes
  7. 8 They Vowed It
  8. 9 Volume Dial at Ten
  9. 10 The Nothing That Everybody Knows
  10. 11 The Sentence Factory
  11. 12 The Best Marriage in James
  12. 13 Locked Out of the Pagoda
  13. 14 One Card Ends the Game
  14. 15 What Does Adam Know?
  15. 16 Lie For Her, Lie To Her
  16. 17 Who Breaks the Bowl?
  17. 18 Nuns Don't Throb
  18. 19 The Saddest Chapter
  19. 20 Touch Him, Taste Him
  20. 21 Pity and Dread
John Banville

Dubliners

with John Banville · 19 episodes

  1. 1 Handed the Book at Twelve
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  1. 2 Three Words on the First Page
  2. 3 Look What He's Doing
  3. 4 The East and the Circles
  4. 5 All the Seas of the World
  5. 6 Young Men on the Make
  6. 7 The Perverse Madonna
  7. 8 The Confession Box
  8. 9 Poor Little Chandler
  9. 10 The Copied Day
  10. 11 The Clay Game
  11. 12 No Blame Attached to Anyone
  12. 13 Hyenas at the Lion's Print
  13. 14 I'm Asking for My Rights
  14. 15 The Lie They Survive By
  15. 16 The Terror of Freedom
  16. 17 The Ribs Beneath the Skin
  17. 18 The Journey Westward
  18. 19 The Standing Stones
John Kaag

Walden

with John Kaag · 30 episodes

  1. 1 Why Walden, Why Now
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  1. 2 Emerson's Land, and Ours
  2. 3 To Dwell
  3. 4 Quiet Desperation
  4. 5 The Mortgage Mortgages Your Life
  5. 6 Penance
  6. 7 Goodness Tainted
  7. 8 The Confessional 'I'
  8. 9 Why the Woods
  9. 10 Two Minutes Dead
  10. 11 Frittered Away by Detail
  11. 12 On Reading
  12. 13 The Owl and the Sick Soul
  13. 14 Solitude Is Not Loneliness
  14. 15 Three Retreats
  15. 16 Three Chairs
  16. 17 Knowing Beans
  17. 18 One Night in Jail
  18. 19 Thoreau Anticipates Marx
  19. 20 The Pond Will Tell You Who You Are
  20. 21 The Satellite Dish Bigger Than the House
  21. 22 The Gun That Shot Photographs
  22. 23 The Loon Is Thoreau
  23. 24 Burnt Woods
  24. 25 Brister Freeman and the Prophet of Walden Woods
  25. 26 Wyman, Quoil, and What Masks
  26. 27 Questions the Morning Answers
  27. 28 Wildness Is the Infrastructure
  28. 29 He Leaves for the Reason He Came
  29. 30 Do Not Hate Your Life
Margaret Atwood

A Tale of Two Cities

with Margaret Atwood · 11 episodes

  1. 1 A Paradigm-Shift Book
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  1. 2 Recalled to Life
  2. 3 Doubles
  3. 4 Monseigneur
  4. 5 The Angel in the House
  5. 6 The Real Hero
  6. 7 The Resurrection Men
  7. 8 Payback
  8. 9 A Hand at Cards
  9. 10 The Knitting
  10. 11 A Far, Far Better Thing
Megan Marshall

The Scarlet Letter

with Megan Marshall · 16 episodes

  1. 1 More My Book
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  1. 2 The Letter in Red Tape
  2. 3 A Sweet Moral Blossom
  3. 4 She's Not Going to Say
  4. 5 The First Wrong
  5. 6 This Is Her Walden
  6. 7 I Have No Heavenly Father
  7. 8 A Nickname for Margaret
  8. 9 Under One Roof
  9. 10 It Is Done
  10. 11 No Law for Her Mind
  11. 12 Room to Breathe
  12. 13 A Consecration of Its Own
  13. 14 The Forgotten Art of Gaiety
  14. 15 A Field, Sable
  15. 16 To Live Is to Bear Secrets
Paul Guyer

A Kant Primer

with Paul Guyer · 27 episodes

  1. 1 The Forty-Five-Cent Kant
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  1. 2 Dare to Know
  2. 3 The Starry Heavens and the Great Gulf
  3. 4 What Critique Actually Means
  4. 5 The Impossible Kind of Knowledge
  5. 6 Space and Time
  6. 7 The Weakest Part of the Book
  7. 8 Where the Categories Come From
  8. 9 The Schema, and the Answer to Hume
  9. 10 The Logic of Illusion
  10. 11 The Good Will
  11. 12 The Test
  12. 13 The Inner Worth of the World
  13. 14 The Fly in the Ointment
  14. 15 Respect
  15. 16 The Highest Good
  16. 17 What May I Hope
  17. 18 Radical Evil
  18. 19 Lucid, and Reversible
  19. 20 Right and Virtue
  20. 21 The Gift
  21. 22 No One Can Judge for You
  22. 23 The Sublime
  23. 24 Genius
  24. 25 What Nature Is For
  25. 26 The Crooked Timber
  26. 27 Perpetual Peace
Roxane Gay

The Age of Innocence

with Roxane Gay · 8 episodes

  1. 1 On the Surface, a Love Story
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  1. 2 The Scarlet D
  2. 3 Yellow Roses
  3. 4 The Company Man
  4. 5 The Nepo Baby of Old New York
  5. 6 The Performance of Being Newland Archer
  6. 7 Each Time You Happen to Me
  7. 8 Save Your Pity
Sadie Stein

Pride and Prejudice

with Sadie Stein · 21 episodes

  1. 1 Nobody in This Book Has a Job
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  1. 2 Tote-Bag Austen
  2. 3 The Case for Settling
  3. 4 The Rain Gambit
  4. 5 Stuck in a Room
  5. 6 Don't Feel Sorry for Him
  6. 7 The Nicest Guy Anyone's Ever Met
  7. 8 An Anatomy of Mortification
  8. 9 A Rational Creature
  9. 10 Charlotte's Bargain
  10. 11 Violently in Love
  11. 12 Twenty-Four Miles from London
  12. 13 Something Is Up with Darcy
  13. 14 In Vain Have I Struggled
  14. 15 Till This Moment I Never Knew Myself
  15. 16 Nothing Is Funny Anymore
  16. 17 Of This Place I Might Have Been Mistress
  17. 18 The World Will Prey on Them
  18. 19 Getting Married Was Grim, Too
  19. 20 A Gentleman's Daughter
  20. 21 The Slow Burn
Salman Rushdie

Candide

with Salman Rushdie · 16 episodes

  1. 1 Sixteen, in French Class
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  1. 2 Paradise, Lost
  2. 3 The Earthquake Argument
  3. 4 Stories Within Stories
  4. 5 The Old Woman Knows the World
  5. 6 The New World Is the Old World
  6. 7 Why Would You Ever Leave?
  7. 8 The Mutilated Slave
  8. 9 Martin, or the Problem of Evil
  9. 10 Angry Laughter
  10. 11 Power Disappoints
  11. 12 Not Irrevocably Dead
  12. 13 The Women in the Book
  13. 14 The Blot on the Book
  14. 15 Realism Is Unrealistic
  15. 16 Cultivate Your Garden