Diane Williams talks to Thomas Jones about her short stories, and reads her latest two published in the LRB.
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Aug 30
Travel with Close Readings: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, overwhelmed by rubbish, buried underground – that reveal something true about every ... Show More
1h 37m
Aug 23
Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he took from nowhere was Isabel Archer’. James transformed the 19th-century novel through his evocation of Isabel, a woman who wants and suffers in a profoundly new (a ... Show More
1h 11m
Sep 2023
Interview with Diana Quincy!
This week I chat with romance author Diana Quincy about her newest novel The Duke Gets Desperate. Please Rate, Review and Follow on Apple Podcasts. It helps the podcast grow. MERCH! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes Pa ... Show More
1h 1m
Apr 2023
Diana Evans with Isy Suttie
<p>This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author, Diana Evans</p><br><p>Diana joins us to discuss her latest novel, A House for Alice, the follow-up to the best-selling and critically acclaimed, Ordinary People. </p><br><p>Isy and Diana also discu ... Show More
49m 51s
Oct 2023
SMNTY Classics: A Tale of Two Short Stories
Get your Swoodies and religious trauma here! In this special classic Book Club episode, we discuss two short stories: Lose Now, Pay Later, and The Problem of Susan, while digging into issues around weight, fad diets, and women and religion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ... Show More
59m 33s
Jan 2022
SMNTY Book Club: A Tale of Two Short Stories
<p>Get your Swoodies and religious trauma here! In this special Book Club episode, we discuss two short stories: Lose Now, Pay Later, and The Problem of Susan, while digging into issues around weight, fad diets, and women and religion. </p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choice ... Show More
57m 43s
Dec 2021
Interview with Denise Williams
In this week’s episode, Joce talks with Denise Williams about her latest novel, The Fastest Way to Fall, which is out from Berkley Romance. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the d ... Show More
48m 10s