The Casual Academic: A Literary Podcast

The Casual Academic: A Literary Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 36 - Structural Tricks, Disintegration & Ghosts in Valeria Luiselli's "Faces in the Crowd"
September 17, 2019

Episode 36 features Valeria Luiselli's "Faces in …

Episode 35 - Memory, Self & La Revolución in Carlos Fuentes' "The Death of Artemio Cruz"
September 06, 2019

Rising out of the depths of a busy summer and unr…

Episode 33 - Disembodiment, Structure & Millennial Existentialism in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
February 19, 2019

Good evening from Spain! Allow us to present the…

The Arabesque, Orientalism & Unholy Trinities in Jan Potocki's "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa"
February 05, 2019

Episode 32 inaugurates our new episode series "Bo…

Aside #24 - Patreon Launch & Our Next Episode Series
November 13, 2018

We are VERY excited to announce that our Patreon …

Episode 31 - Gender Binaries, Identity & Interiority in Qiu Miaojin's "Notes of a Crocodile"
November 06, 2018

In the final episode of our Overlooked Authors Se…

Episode 30 - Imposters, Doppelgängers & Duplicates in Silvina Ocampo's "Thus Were Their Faces"
October 23, 2018

We're back! On this episode, we discuss the Argen…

Episode 29 - Memory, Perception & Fairytales in Tatyana Tolstaya's "White Walls"
April 10, 2018

In this episode, we marvel at Tatyana Tolstaya's …

Episode 28 - Untouchability, Inaction and "The Seventh Seal" in U.R. Ananthamurthy's "Samskara"
March 20, 2018

Overlooked Authors on The Casual Academic has beg…