Category: literature
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children are innocent and love justice
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. – GK Chesterton
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Wolf and Crane by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Wolf and Crane by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories or…
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The Legend of the Swamp by Colby
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re readingThe Legend of the Swamp by Colby. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own…
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Love’s Deity by John Donne
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Love’s Deity by John Donne. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories…
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the wolf and the kid by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the wolf and the kid by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own…
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Palliative Care for Imprisonism Literature
In the last few decades it grew popular for critics to predict and mourn the death of the novel. The death of the novel is really the death of their particular kind of novel: imprisonism literature. It’s as if someone said at their father’s funeral: “Fatherhood is dead to me” or before their own suicide…
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Gilgamesh and Skinny Dipping
Episode one of our book club podcast WESTERN CANONBALL features The Epic of Gilgamesh and some scandalous skinny dipping by Enkidu. Gilgamesh features an antihero who offends gods, slays giants, and offensively steals the wives of everyone in the kingdom. This podcast is basically a group of us meeting at my house for dinner about…
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The Wolf and The Lamb by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Wolf and The Lamb by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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The Cock and the Pearl by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Cock and The Pearl by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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A Place for Demons : Kingkiller Reread
We’re now at the place in the Kingkiller Reread where we can finally start chapter one: a place for demons — I’m assuming you’ve read all of the Rothfuss canon if you read forward. As I said before, it’s quite telling that Rothfuss titled the first chapter “a place for demons.” Beyond the obvious connection…
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Olympics Need an Aesthetic Branch — #OlympianAesthete
In preparation for our first two book readings for our Western Canonball book club here in Brooklyn (click here to unlock the whole booklist and join the book clumb), I came across an interesting passage in Hesiod’s WORKS AND DAYS where he gives a sort of meta reference to his THEOGONY, the first book in…
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The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…