Best Scott Colson Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 36: Burning Down the Days with THE FLAMETHROWERS by Rachel Kushner 1:16:31

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Send us a text It’s 1976. A woman named Reno in leather motorcycle gear descends upon the Bonneville Salt Flats on a state of the art Moto Valera motorcycle. Is speed her goal? Is it the land art created by her tracks across the flats? Is her rolling crash meant to serve as a metaphor for the next two year of her life? In this episode your intrepid…

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Get Lit: Gray, Angelella, Lennox, Seibel 1:06:56

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Please be advised that this episode contains explicit language. Join us this month as we talk to Sarah Gray, who has a memoir out with Simon and Schuster titled, An Everlasting Life. She’s also a member of the DC Library Writers Workshop and she’ll read her piece The Lacemaker (read here) and we’ll talk about expectations and publishing a memoir. W…

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Episode 35: Escaping War for Love in Ernest Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS 1:25:29

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Send us a text Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms is probably the most famous war novel in American literary history. Inspired by his own wounding on the Italian front shortly before his nineteenth birthday, Hemingway tells the story of a disillusioned American serving in a foreign army, Frederic Henry, who falls in love with a Red Cr…

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Get Lit: Robbins, Bock, Colson, Scott and Carr 1:00:01

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Join us this month as we talk with author Denise S. Robbins who has a new book out called The Unmapping; the Washington Writers Publishing House co-president Caroline Bock and Jona Colson, who are celebrating WWPH’s 50th anniversary; author Rion Amilcar Scott who reads from his book, The World Does Not Require You; and indie lit legend Brian Allen …

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Episode 34: Riding the Rails with THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead 1:14:33

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Send us a text In this, our 34th episode of the Great American Novel podcast, the hosts tackle Colson Whitehead’s intriguing, interesting, and in some surprising ways challenging award-winning 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad. This novel works with the premise that the antebellum freedom trail to the north for escaped slaves was not a series of…

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Get Lit: Christina Tudor, Melissa Scholes Young, Cynthia Via, and OF Cieri 1:00:11

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Join us as we celebrate the publication of Grit and Gravity, volume 11 of the Grace and Gravity series, a series dedicated to women writers in the DC area. Christina Tudor and Cynthia Via are two of the excellent writers in the series. (and are both alums of the DC Public Library writers workshops). We chat briefly with Melissa Scholes Young, the e…

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Episode 33: Pulling Out the Mote in Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD 1:17:12

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Send us a text More celebrated for her dark, satirical short stories, Flannery O'Connor nevertheless burst on the literary scene in 1952 in her mid-twenties with her debut novel, Wise Blood. The story of a would-be preacher resistant to God's grace, the plot features some of the most bizarre and twisted left turns in American literature: self-blind…

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Get Lit: Austin Ross, Alan Good, and Joey Hedger 49:15

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This month we have local writers Austin Ross and Joey Hedger, both with books out with Malarkey Books. We also have Alan Good, editor of Malarkey Books, who has published a slew of DC writers. Credits Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarch…

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Notes from the Library: Health & Human Services 43:10

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***From 2019*** In this episode, host Victor Benitez interviews Jean Badalamenti, Health & Human Services Coordinator for the DC Public Library and Peer Outreach Specialists Jerome and Renee to talk about about the library's role in assisting DC's most vulnerable and at-risk residents.By Victor Benitez, Jean Badalamenti

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Get Lit: Margaret Roberts Drucker and Ivy Grimes 46:23

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Join as Margaret Roberts Drucker returns with another scary story, Chris makes a soothing song for these troubling times, and Ivy Grimes reads her piece about someone swallowing a glass piano. Credits Re-Function! by junior85 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. Life’s Small Pleasures by Christopher Stevenson: DC Metro - Interior 1 by cra…

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Episode 32: Watching the Flames from Slaughterhouse-Five 1:27:31

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Send us a text In Episode 32 of the Great American Novel podcast, we slip through time with Billy Pilgrim as we shuffle between the character’s experiences as a prisoner of war and first hand witness to the Dresden firebombing in World War II and then trip the light fantastic to the far flung planet Tralfamadore. Or…do we? Yes, this episode has you…

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All Things Local:Uncovering Roots: Genealogy and the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland 1:29:49

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In this episode Carla Wills and Negest Rucker joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss their family connections to slavery in Maryland and the Catholic Church. Recommended books related to this episode: The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns. The ledger and the chain : how domestic sl…

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DC Public Library Presents: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail 50:29

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In this episode, we revisit the reading of Reverend Martin Luther King’s 1963 "Letter From A Birmingham Jail". It was performed annually as a staged reading in the Great Hall of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library prior to the library's renovation. Today, we continue that tradition in virtual form, blending voices familiar and new, includin…

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#35 JP HARRIS 25:10

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Get Lit: Hannah Grieco and Rose Solari 56:00

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Join us with the opening episode of the year as we join local writers Hannah Grieco and Rose Solari as we discuss writing, teaching, and running a small press in Washington, DC. Credits: Java Pop by Spires That in the Sunset Rise is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/…

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Episode 31: Crossing the Country with Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD 1:21:48

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Send us a text Few novels have had the cultural impact of Jack Kerouac's speed-fueled mad dash across the continent in search of kicks as On the Road. One doubts the 1960s ever would have happened had Kerouac's Beat Generation coterie not inspired a mass embrace (and mockery) of bohemian jazz culture rebelling against the conformity of Eisenhower-e…

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All Things Local: Love DC GO-GO 37:41

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In celebration of Go Go preservation week at the DC Public Library, Montu Mitchell joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss his Love DC Go Go clothing campaign and its connection to the culture of Washington, DC. Music by BOPD elevator by BOPD is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/…

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#34 Dylan Jackson Scott and Taylor Colson 21:31

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Episode 30: Sailing on the SHIP OF FOOLS 1:09:13

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Send us a text A couple of weeks ago—after this episode was recorded, but before it was edited and posted—the famous author Stephen King posted online his top ten novels of all time—and among them was Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools. This 1962 book was the first novel by Porter, a great American writer who had mostly worked in the short story…

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#33 Coleman Williams 22:28

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Get Lit: Kristi Ferguson and Stephanie Parent 46:33

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In this episode DC based writer Kristi Ferguson discusses writing, growing up in Brazil and the DC writing scene. Also joining the podcast is Baltimore based writer Stephanie Parent. She talks about sex work and her memoir My Dungeon Love Affair. Credits: Start to Finish by C. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. https://…

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#32 Jaime Wyatt 23:56

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All Things Local: Paul Coates 42:35

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*Original air date: January 29, 2020.*Paul Coates is owner and operator of Black Classic Press, one of the oldest Black publishing companies in the U.S. He joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss his life, publishing company and how books shaped his life.By Paul Coates, Olubunmi Bakare

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Episode 29: Rallying Around the Flag in Stephen Crane's THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE 1:35:44

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Send us a text The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a singularly unique war novel: whereas most depictions of the horrors of combat and the trauma of the battlefield are naturalistic, attempting to inflict upon the reader the violence the prose describes and terrifying us with the prospect that humans do not rise to heroic occasions, Stephen Crane's …

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Get Lit: Michael Don and Jessica Harris 41:45

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Join us for our August episode, featuring interviews with George Mason Professor Michael Don and DC Library worker and poet Jessica Harris. Also, the bulk of the music on this episode comes from C. Scott's album Beats Vol. 3, a trip hop album in CCO, often used in tween games. Credits What A Beautiful Sunset is licensed under Creative Commons Attri…

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#31 Joshua Quimby 28:37

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Get Lit: Lauren Woods and Andrew Bertaina 42:55

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Get Lit: George Koors and LJ Pemberton 47:35

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Join us as we explore what librarians and libraries do. Did you know for example that you can read The Paris Review on PressReader if you have a library card? Also, keeping in theme, we hear from Takoma Park librarians, Writer and Adult Librarian George Koors about his novel Always the Wanderer, and writer LJ Pemberton, whose acclaimed novel Still …

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Episode 28: Falling off the Cliff with The Catcher in the Rye 1:24:48

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Send us a text The Great American Novel Podcast episode 28 considers JD Salinger’s landmark 1951 classic, The Catcher in the Rye. Your hosts discuss Salinger’s famous reclusiveness, the book’s continuing appeal, and its influence on both the genre of so-called “young adult literature” and post-breakdown lit. We examine the novel in its role of the …

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#30 Black Venus 24:41

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#29 Lilly Hiatt 30:20

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Episode 27: Filtering the Static in Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE 1:14:34

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Send us a text Often hailed as the quintessential exemplum of Reagan-era postmodernism, Don DeLillo's eighth novel, White Noise (1985), is part academic satire, part media excoriation, and part exploration of the "simulacrum" or simulated feel of everyday life. With its absurdist asides on the iconicity of both Elvis and Hitler, the unrelenting str…

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#28 Wade Sapp 22:24

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#27 BB Palmer 35:58

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Episode 26: Seekers of the Lonely Heart: Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 1:03:21

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Send us a text The 26th episode of the Great American Novel Podcast delves into Carson McCullers’ 1940 debut novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Published when the author was only 23, the novel tells the tale of a variety of misfits who don’t seem to belong in their small milltown in depression-era, 1930s Georgia. Tackling race, disability, sexuali…

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#26 Lance Whalen 26:02

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#25 JD PINKUS 27:20

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All Things Local: Diving With a Purpose 55:26

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In this episode, host Olubunmi Bakare speaks with Kamau Sadiki. Kamau is a Board of Directors member and Lead Instructor with Diving With A Purpose (DWP), an organization committed to resurrecting the stories of shipwrecks involved in the Transatlantic Era of African Enslavement (TEAE) through maritime archaeology. They discuss his mission to find …

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What the Tech: What is Cryptocurrency? 41:43

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In this epsiode, we tackle Cryptocurrency with guest Adam Zarazinski. Adam is the CEO of Inca Digital, a local Veteran-owned and run company that helps businesses understand and use Cryptocurrency and related technologies. In our interview, Adam breaks down cryptocurrency- what it is, how it works, how to avoid crypto scams, and more. Have you been…

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#24 Josh Morningstar 30:03

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#23 Casper Allen 34:14

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Get Lit: New Year 26:11

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Episode 25: Surmising the Motives in Henry James's THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 1:08:20

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Send us a text Published in 1881, The Portrait of a Lady was Henry James's seventh novel and marked his transition away from the novel of manners that only three years earlier had made his novella Daisy Miller a succès de scandale toward the more meticulous, inward study of individual perception, or what would come to be known as psychological real…

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#21 Joe Queer 31:21

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#20 Rosy Nolan 28:04

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#19 Ted Russell Kamp 24:25

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Get Lit: Winter Holiday Edition 53:26

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Join us as we explore the winter holiday season. We hear from writers Kim Renay Anderson and Rev. Veronica Graves, listen to the ending of The Dead by James Joyce and ruminate over what it is that’s so important about these days. Is it just the food? Is it the religious aspects? Is it family? What is it? Credits The Lass of Aughrim. Traditional. Pe…

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#18 Lillicat 25:31

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#17 Hillbilly Casino 25:22

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#16 Volk 27:21

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