Ep. 25. Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant, Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

What this episode covers

In this episode, I talk to Dan Sinykin [https://english.emory.edu/people/bios/sinykin-dan.html] and Johanna Winant [https://www.reed.edu/faculty-profiles/profiles/winant-johanna.html]about their edited book Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/close-reading-for-the-twenty-first-century-dan-sinykin/7839992?ean=9780691265704&next=t] (2025). Dan Sinykin is Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University and Johanna Winant is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. Episode notes * William Carlos Williams, 'The Red Wheelbarrow' [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow] * Winant, 'The Claims of Close Reading' [https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/] * 'No Crisis' [https://lareviewofbooks.org/feature/no-crisis/], LARB * 'Close Reading is a Conversation' [https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/collarbone], The American Vandal  * Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain Book recs:  * Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, The Leopard [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-leopard-giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/302598?ean=9780099512158&next=t] * Solvej Balle, On The Calculation of Volume, Vol III [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/on-the-calculation-of-volume-iii/7963536?ean=9780571383429&next=t] * Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/baudelaire-fractal-lisa-robertson/7448005?ean=9781913512354&next=t] * Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/lesser-ruins-mark-haber/7650813?ean=9781566897198&next=t] * Mircea Cartarescu, Solenoid [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/solenoid-mircea-cartarescu/7058870?ean=9781805333197&next=t] Follow the show on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/booksupclose] and subscribe to the Substack [https://booksupclose.substack.com/] for transcripts and more links. Find Johanna on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/johannawinant.bsky.social] and Dan on BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/dan-sinnamon.bsky.social] or Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dannieatsdoughnuts/]. Please leave feedback here [https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ur7mk6rEMUevXdc1sJfq2-MtVOsMawJDpBA3aJ944dVUMkI4OTA3N0dBMUE2SDVJWlpaOE8zNlo4NC4u]. Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd [https://www.instagram.com/chrisllloyd9].