Orwell & Hemingway in Spain – The Spanish Civil War – Homage to Catalonia + For Whom the Bell Tolls | Episode 043

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Orwell and Hemingway in Spain – the long awaited episode on the Spanish Civil War is finally here! Herein the panel covers Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest...

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Dystopian Novel Series Part I – We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | Episode 034

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Beginning with praise, transitioning to criticism and ultimately reaching a state of forgiveness, the panel embarks upon its ongoing Dystopian Novel Series with the granddaddy of the dystopian novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. (Coincidentally recorded on the podcast’s one year anniversary)....

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Atwood’s Dystopia – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Episode 017

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The Handmaid’s Tale is some serious business. Margret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel remains notably fresh and relevant since its publication in 1985, and has become essential to the genre, among the company of George Orwell’s 1984 and...

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George Orwell’s “Why I Write” & Censorship | Episode 001

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The fallacy of America’s legacy of literary censorship is dissected (sans anesthetic) with a celebration of novels like Ulysses by James Joyce & Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” makes a cameo (kudos to...

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