Ep 185: Don’t Drown, ft. Naomi Kanakia, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Woman of Letters by Naomi Kanakia
– Is literary criticism just a school of sophistry? by Naomi Kanakia
– English class teaches students to be afraid of literature by Naomi Kanakia
– Is literature a false God? by Naomi Kanakia
– The new issue of Literary Matters!
– My poem Letter to a Middle-Aged Poet in First Things
– The Versecraft episode where we all traded poems, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– AWP 2025
– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy
– The Secret Show episode on What is art?, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
– Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
– Naomi’s review of James by Percival Everett in The Metropolitan Review
– Moby Dick by Herman Melville
– Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
– The Case of the Wolf Man from the History of Infantile Neurosis by Sigmund Freud
– The Norton Anthology of Poetry
– The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn
– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
– On Close Reading by John Guillory
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