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All Episodes

Literary Nomads — 77 episodes

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1

The Original Omelas: The Case of the Animals vs. Man

2

The Tyranny of Chance: Assis, Borges, and the Randomized Bargain

3

Waypoint – “The Fortune Teller”

4

Failures of Imagination: We and Flatland

5

Utopia’s Spare Parts: Star Trek & Ishiguro

6

The Architecture of the Dungeon: Toni Morrison and the 13th Amendment

7

Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange and the Sovereign Center

8

The Bureaucracy of Erasure: Erdrich’s The Night Watchman

9

Words from Nigeria 3 – Emezi’s Pet & Hunters for Truth

10

Words from Nigeria Pt 2: Soyinka’s Tiger & Brother Jero

11

Words from Nigeria Pt 1: Adichie and the Literary Manifesto

12

Cassandra: Uncertain Steps

13

Writing Back: Letters to Humanity

14

The Great Societies: Lowry’s “The Giver”

15

The Great Societies, Pt 2: Metropolis & The Ways of Meaning

16

Is All Art Political? The Great Societies, Pt. 1: Metropolis

17

True Horror: Le Guin, Poe, Cavarero, Bataille, and Arendt

18

Poe: Horror, Pathology, and the Necessity of Care

19

The Hideous Heart – Poe’s Aesthetic of Accountability

20

Waypoint – “The Imp of Perversity”

21

Waypoint – “The Tell-Tale Heart”

22

Literary Nomads for Teachers

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Literary Nomads for Students

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Literary Nomads for Readers

25

Le Guin – What I Carry With Me

26

Le Guin Part 5: Q&A

27

Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin

28

Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth

29

Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness

30

Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain

31

Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias

32

In Defense of Fantasy

33

Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story

34

Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting

35

Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’

36

Otium and The Moral Philosopher – William James

37

Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium

38

Vaster Than Empires – Le Guin

39

Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint

40

Trailer: Journey 6

41

What I Get Wrong

42

Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety

43

Bellow Seizes Our Day

44

Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme

45

Carpe All Over the Place

46

Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”

47

Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11

48

Writing Back: Answering Marvell

49

Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting

50

Dorian Gray and Difficult Conversations

51

Reading and Living in Uncertainty

52

What I Carry With Me

53

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4

54

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3

55

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2

56

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1

57

Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability

58

An Introduction and Irony

59

Unwoven Interview #3: Poet Kelly Porter

60

Unwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski

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Unwoven Interview #1: Dr. Jessica Manuel

62

Trailer: Literary Nomads

63

Waypoint – The Shadow

64

Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter

65

Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier

66

Pearson’s Archetypes

67

Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4

68

The Original

69

Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3

70

False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil

71

Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2

72

Intentional Fowls and Fallacies

73

WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

74

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1

75

Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

76

Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

77

The Waywords Podcast Trailer