Literary Hangover

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This week, Chris and I take a look at Rutger Bregman's "Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World." We revisit Bregman's two viral moments: telling Davos the answer is to raie taxes and telling Tucker Carlson he's part of that problem. The need for imagination and AOC...

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Alex and Matt discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major novel, inspired by his time at the Transcendentalist/Fourierist Brook Farm Commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. A deeper introduction to utopian socialist Charles Fourier, who is mentioned in both this novel and The House of the Seven Gables...

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Alex, Grace, and Matt are back to discuss the extraordinary (for structural reasons!) life of Margaret Fuller, a feminist and later socialist who is often mentioned in relation to the Transcendentalists...

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Alex and Matt are once again joined by Grace, this time to discuss 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an epic poem published in 1855...

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Next Orwell episode will be on his 1937 essay "Spilling the Spanish Beans."

Quick note for Patrons: As mentioned in the episode, Alex and I will be doing periodic premium episodes on Orwell essays over the coming months as a thank you for your support...

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Today, joining Matt (@MattLech) and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) is David Griscom (@DavidGriscom) of The Michael Brooks Show and sinthome.com. We're discussing Oscar Wilde's 1891 essay, 'The Soul of Man under Socialism' and it's continued, though submerged, relevance...

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On this episode, Alex, Grace, and Matt discuss King Philip's War (or Metacomet's Rebellion) and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson that resulted from it. The economic, legal, and cultural forces that drove Metacomet and the Wampanoags to take up arms against the settlers. Praying Indians at Harvard and the Eliot Indian bible as a cultural weapon...

Hi patrons! This week, Alex, Grace and I go through Henry James' 1879 biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (how James' biography is more about James). Sensitive and insecure America and listen to an unabridged reading of Hawthorne's 1835 short story, 'Wakefield' about a man who leaves his wife without explanation only to live nearby and watch her for decades.

Sources:

McCall, Dan. "Henry James's Hawthorne." New England Review (1990-) 18, no. 4 (1997): 111-18...

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On todays show, Alex and I discuss "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger...