Episode 10 "Auditions to be Professors"

EPISODE · Sep 1, 2020 · 55 MIN

Episode 10 "Auditions to be Professors"

from There Will Be Books · host Peter Murphy

This week we put on our professor hats and create college courses. Peter lays out why WWII provides such an interesting setting for novels. Meanwhile, Matt leads the discussion on why society is like prison. Books mentioned: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning The Night Watch by Sarah Waters All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada Against the Grain by James C Scott Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Welcome to the Machine by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan Demian by Hermann Hesse The Magus by John Fowles One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

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