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Strange Horizons

The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective

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Speculative fiction and poetry, literary criticism, and interviews from award-winning Strange Horizons magazine, updated weekly on Mondays/Tuesdays. Find us online at strangehorizons.com
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Shelf Love is about romance novels and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host Andrea Martucci invites experts from a variety of perspectives to critically engaging with romance novels. Listen for discussions of individual books, genre discourse, and scholarly topics.
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Curdled Ink

Leigh C Artistry

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Welcome to Curdled Ink podcast, one woman’s tirade against poor writing and problematic romance. Literary criticism from a queer, kinky, sex positive perspective, starting with 50 Shades of Grey. Posts every other Tuesday!
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Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.
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University of Minnesota Press

University of Minnesota Press

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Authors join peers, scholars, and friends in conversation. Topics include environment, humanities, race, social justice, cultural studies, art, literature and literary criticism, media studies, sociology, anthropology, grief and loss, mental health, and more.
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A podcast devoted to the way stories shape us, sharpen us, and sometimes… save us. Hope is Kindled is a literary podcast that explores classic and powerful works of literature through the lens of self-discovery, moral reflection, and enduring hope. Each episode delves into a single book, essay, or story, examining its themes, characters, and psychological depth, and connects it to timeless questions about the human condition. What makes the podcast unique is its blend of literary criticism a ...
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Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers. Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.
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Book Spider

Xi Draconis Books

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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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The Wisdom Of

Kristian Urstad and Stephen Webb

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In this podcast we explore great works of philosophy and literature and art, and try to pull out of them what’s most interesting and inspiring! Whether they come from the works of Plato, or Dostoevsky or Picasso, here we explore ideas that move mountains and rock the soul! So, come join us, won’t you? Come worship at the alter of ideas, and come celebrate the dancing of thought. Welcome to the Wisdom Of!
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Reading McCarthy

Scott Yarbrough and Guest Hosts

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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. (Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)
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Welcome to Drunk Girls Who Read - the book club your cool English teacher would have wanted to join. Best friends Hannah and Charlie dive into their favourite reads and discover new classics, all while sipping a questionable array of drinks. Join us for a unique combination of intelligent literary criticism one minute and drunken chaos the next! Currently covering The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in Fortnightly episodes. Created by Hannah Twigg and Charlie Joe Ward at Goblet Of Wine Produ ...
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Two British lifelong Harry Potter fans Hannah and Charlie re-read their favourite childhood book chapter by chapter with added alcohol and cynicism in fortnightly episodes! The perfect podcast for HP fans who want to revisit the story through an adult lens (AKA, NSFW), and with the added bonus of British accents, Hannah and Charlie lovingly tear apart the books pointing out plot holes, anti-feminist moments, transphobia, fat phobia, and most of all...dick jokes. A unique combination of intel ...
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We take in the X-Men as it's meant to be enjoyed, with clockwork orange style devices to pry open our eyes. Married couple, Allison and Matt Parent do deep dives into the good, the bad, the squishy and weird X-Men stories. Allison is a newbie to comics and Matt is going to talk about it endlessly to them whether they record it or not. Logo by Emily Kardamis who can be found on Instagram @corruptedgem or on Patreon at Patreon.com/corruptedgem Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in ...
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The Close Read Podcast

The Claremont Institute

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Associate editor Spencer Klavan phones up authors whose CRB essays have prompted deeper reflection and discussion. Over a drink, he'll chat with the leading minds on the Right about what's going on in politics and literary culture. claremontinstitute.substack.com
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Welcome to Gothic Land

Alice in Gothic Land

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“Welcome to Gothic Land” is a video podcast created by Alice in Gothic Land. It is a place where we analyse the psychology behind Gothic productions and elements so we can find our balance. I help you find balance in the transitional through the analysis of literary productions, TV shows, songs and other artistic representations. In other words, the analysis of Gothic psychology.
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TheLiterarian

Arash Rahmani

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Formerly known as: Food for Thought Weekly Discussions on English Literature and Literary Criticism .::پادکست عاشق ادبیات (خوراک ذهن سابق)::. ادبیات انگلیسی و نقد ادبی
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The Big Book Project

Lori Feathers

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The Big Book Project is a multi-venue reading experience for bibliophiles fascinated by long or dense works of fiction and interested in discussing them with others, one novel at a time. The works selected will be capacious novels from the mid-nineteenth century through today that possess an abundant writing style or complexity in structure and themes. The notion that reading need not be a solitary activity has special resonance with these novels given that there is much to discuss, elaborat ...
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An investigative podcast hosted by world-renowned literary critic and publishing insider Bethanne Patrick. Book bans are on the rise across America. With the rise of social media, book publishers are losing their power as the industry gatekeepers. More and more celebrities and influencers are publishing books with ghostwriters. Writing communities are splintering because members are at cross purposes about their mission. Missing Pages is an investigative podcast about the book publishing ind ...
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The Creepypasta Book Club is a podcast about reading, analyzing and discussing significant creepypastas, nosleeps, and web horror flash fiction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Fashioning Critical Theory

John E. Drabinski

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Podcasted conversation on critical and literary theory, drawing on a range of theorists from Europe, the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. Our title is drawn from Audre Lorde's essay "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," where she writes that poetry fashions a language where words do not yet exist. How does theory make words and world new, attuned, and embedded within inventive and inventing lived-experience, tradition, and cultural production?
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Pullstring Press is a media publisher in Santa Barbara California. Pullstring maintains offices in the grand Balboa Building on State Street in downtown. The press publishes a literary quarterly and a podcast network. Mail is always welcome with comment or criticism at 735 State Street Suite 111 Santa Barbara CA 93101.
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Join Mike and Steve for your weekly guide to understanding Chick Tracts. Through close reading skills that only two out of practice English majors could possess, our brave scholars will try to unravel the deeper meanings in these often underestimated works of religious propaganda.
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Highlights from the mid-morning show with Claire Byrne, featuring stories of the day, sharp analysis, features, sports and consumer interest items. Listen live Monday to Friday at 10am on RTÉ Radio 1.
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The American Poetry Review

The American Poetry Review

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Founded in 1972, The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary criticism. The podcast features guest interviews and lots of poetry talk from APR editor Elizabeth Scanlon, along with co-hosts and guests. Learn more about APR at aprweb.org.
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PhDivas

PhDivas

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Podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Dr. Liz Wayne and Dr. Christine "Xine" Yao are two women of color Ivy League PhDs navigating higher education. Biomedical engineer meets literary critic. Both fans of lipstick.
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Erratic Dialogues

Gabriella Edelstein and Claudette Palomares

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Erratic Dialogues is a monthly broadcast in which the hosts, Claudette Palomares and Gabriella Edelstein, discuss happenings in the world of art, theatre and film, as well as literature in all its variety. A concoction of repartee and arts criticism, these conversations combine the craft of cultural deconstruction over a cup of coffee. This podcast is part of an experiment of how the arts are discussed online and is coupled with essays on erraticdialogues.com. The blog and accompanying dialo ...
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Lots of people are talking about the future of work today: remote work, artificial intelligence, white-collar unions, robots, 4-day workweeks... But those things are either here already or will be soon. What about the far future of work? What alien advancements await the office of the future? This podcast wants to boldly go where no other future-of-work podcast has gone. Host Tara McMullin (What Works) brings this limited series about how speculative fiction can help us imagine strange new w ...
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Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books

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We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work. Founded in 1994, Riverhead Books is now well established as a publisher of bestselling literary fiction and quality nonfiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary groundbreaking, unique writers. Riverhead’s books and authors have won or been finalists for Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, National Book Critic Circle Awards, M ...
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(Re)Read

(Re)Read

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Welcome to (Re)Read, the podcast where we look back at the books from our youth and find out if they hold up under the cold, harsh light of adulthood. Are you a fan of nostalgia? Literary criticism? Ruining childhoods? Listening to two adults squabble about books intended for younger readers? Then join us, Morgan and Casey, as we journey into the past and (re)read the books we loved. Support local bookstores and our podcast: bookshop.org/shop/rereadpodcast
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The American Vandal

Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies

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An ever-growing collection of conversations about literature, humor, and history in America, produced by the premier source for programming and funding scholarship on Mark Twain's life and legacy.
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suck my (fan) fic.

suck my (fan) fic.

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we are just two guys who love stories and creativity. we review fan fiction and do our best to analyze it as seriously and jokingly as possible. don't forget to follow suck my (fan) fic on social media and youtube! also, we have a patreon now, we'd love it if you guys could give us all (at least some?) of your monies.
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Check Your Threading

Check Your Threading

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Every two weeks, your hosts Sam and Lauren watch a movie, do some homework, and create Check Your Threading, a podcast that serves up history, psychology, and perspective on that film. Our goal is to talk about movies in a way that's easily accessible for our listeners—we believe art is for everyone! IG: checkyourthreading / Twitter: checkthreading
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Conceptually Speaking is a show about exploring the cognitive processes and social practices that help us make sense of our world. As as teacher-scholar interested in the intersection of educational theory, practice, and scholarship, I host conversations with guests ranging from practicing educators to neuroscientists and literary scholars to YouTube video essayists. Each episode shares a common purpose: to consider, critique, and reconceptualize what we think and feel about education. If yo ...
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The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism (University of Texas Press, 2024) demonstrates how the cult…
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Which parts of life are serious, and which are a game? In Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life (Manchester UP, 2025) Tim Beasley-Murray, an Associate Professor of European Thought and Culture and Vice-Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London, offers a se…
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The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism (University of Texas Press, 2024) demonstrates how the cult…
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Grab your yellow spandex and hop on the bullet train, it's Wolve-Ween! We talk Wolverine vol 1 with Gianni Palumbo from the Biff! Bam! Pow! podcast, interview Saladin Ahmed about his first year on his Wolverine title, and a word from Matt's Father. Enjoy! The interview with Saladin Ahmed begins at 33:44 Gianni Palumbo is the host of the excellent B…
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A spirited discussion of the state of higher education, the history of criticism, and the future of literary knowledge production, recorded with a live audience at University of Pennsylvania's English Faculty Lounge as part of the annual Penn English Department Lecture, delivered this year by Christopher Newfield. Cast (in order of appearance): Jam…
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In this episode of The Big Book Project, host Lori Feathers and literary scholar Dr. Larry Allums continue their deep exploration of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!—turning to the enigmatic and multi-layered Chapter 6. This chapter introduces a new voice into Faulkner’s intricate web of narrators: Shreve McCannon, Quentin Compson’s Canadian ro…
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The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra (Routledge, 2024) presents an account of the concept of mind in Hindu Tantra through a study of religious and philosophical texts in the medieval period. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of Religious Studies, Asian Religion, Hindu Studies, Indian philosophy and comparative philosophy. Learn more…
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With implications for the history of religion and art alike, an exploration of the lasting influence of Christian liturgy across a range of media. Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy (Reaktion Books, 2025) offers a captivating journey through the history of religious rituals in Western Europe, showcasing the profound impact of Christ…
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In Belfast, good fences can make for bad neighbors. David Cunningham ( Wash U. sociologist, author of There’s Something Happening Here and Klansville, U.S.A and frequent RTB visitor) joins John to speak about the Troubles and their aftermath with the brilliant Northern Irish novelist/essayist/memoirist Glenn Patterson. His fiction includes The Inte…
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What does it take to construct humanity's cultural history and what do these efforts produce in the world? In The Politics of World Heritage (Oxford UP, 2025), Elif Kalaycioglu analyzes UNESCO's flagship regime, which seeks to curate a cultural history of humanity, attached to "outstanding universal value" and tethered to goals of peace and solidar…
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World (Princeton UP, 2025) by Professor John Blair provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, Dr. Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-d…
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In Belfast, good fences can make for bad neighbors. David Cunningham ( Wash U. sociologist, author of There’s Something Happening Here and Klansville, U.S.A and frequent RTB visitor) joins John to speak about the Troubles and their aftermath with the brilliant Northern Irish novelist/essayist/memoirist Glenn Patterson. His fiction includes The Inte…
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Anyway I'm Venom Horse. Venom Horse is written by Al Ewing with art by Carlos Nieto, colors by Frank D'Armata and lettered by VC's Ariana Maher If you have a comment or question, you can email us @ [email protected] Want a tee-shirt with our logo? Find that here! Logo by Emily Kardamis who can be found on Instagram @corruptedgem or on Patreon …
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My guest this week is Nicholas Reiner, a poet and teacher and Associate Director of Media & Storytelling at the ACLU of Southern California. As part of Bibliocracy’s recent series of shows featuring scholars and activists confronting, explaining, and resisting Trumpism and the fascist GOP agenda, I’ve asked Reiner to catch me up on the work of the …
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Archivum (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Theresa Muñoz is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it means to look at artefacts in an archive, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives. Imagined as a walk across Edinburgh, landmarks such as the Balmoral clock, National Library of Scotland, Meado…
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Metal poisons. Odorless ones. Toxic plants. Iocane powder, arsenic, old lace, poisons as self-defense, black mirrors, Aqua Tofanas, movie myths, and the start of testing for that which ails or kills you: we’ve got Historical Toxicology with Pulitzer Prize-winning science author & chemistry connoisseur Deborah Blum. She wrote the beloved “Poisoner's…
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This Monday Astonishing X-Men Infinity Comic came to an end. We knew we had to talk about it, as it spans the entirety of the From the Ashes Era and is written by and has art by some of our favorite people. We were so lucky to sit down with Justin and Alicia Wilder of The X-Wife Podcast to talk this run as a whole, how hot Banshee is nowadays, and …
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