The Casual Academic: A Literary Podcast
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Episode 36 - Structural Tricks, Disintegration & Ghosts in Valeria Luiselli's "Faces in the Crowd"
Episode 36 features Valeria Luiselli's "Faces in …
Episode 35 - Memory, Self & La Revolución in Carlos Fuentes' "The Death of Artemio Cruz"
Rising out of the depths of a busy summer and unr…
Traveler, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Lit & Context in Patrick L. Fermor's "The Violins of Saint-Jacques"
After several editing and technical hiccups, we'r
Episode 33 - Disembodiment, Structure & Millennial Existentialism in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
Good evening from Spain! Allow us to present the…
The Arabesque, Orientalism & Unholy Trinities in Jan Potocki's "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa"
Episode 32 inaugurates our new episode series "Bo…
Aside #24 - Patreon Launch & Our Next Episode Series
We are VERY excited to announce that our Patreon …
Episode 31 - Gender Binaries, Identity & Interiority in Qiu Miaojin's "Notes of a Crocodile"
In the final episode of our Overlooked Authors Se…
Episode 30 - Imposters, Doppelgängers & Duplicates in Silvina Ocampo's "Thus Were Their Faces"
We're back! On this episode, we discuss the Argen…
Episode 29 - Memory, Perception & Fairytales in Tatyana Tolstaya's "White Walls"
In this episode, we marvel at Tatyana Tolstaya's …
Episode 28 - Untouchability, Inaction and "The Seventh Seal" in U.R. Ananthamurthy's "Samskara"
Overlooked Authors on The Casual Academic has beg…