The Spouter-Inn

49. Watchmen. 16.11.2021 56:09 ↓

Watchmen, the comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

48b. Bonus: Melissa Moreton on Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads. 19.10.2021 46:59 ↓

Melissa Moreton, codicologist, joins us to discuss an exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum that Suzanne co-curated.

48. Orlando. 01.08.2021 54:02 ↓

Virginia Woolf’s genre-bending novel Orlando.

47b. Bonus: Daniel Heath Justice on Animals. 14.07.2021 49:43 ↓

Daniel Heath Justice, author of the books "Badger" and "Raccoon", on animals in literature and in real life.

47. Charlotte’s Web. 06.07.2021 55:53 ↓

E.B. White’s children’s novel, Charlotte’s Web.

46b. Bonus: Anna Wilson on Bear. 22.06.2021 51:17 ↓

Medievalist and fanfiction scholar Anna Wilson puts Marian Engel's Bear in new contexts.

46. Bear. 16.06.2021 52:10 ↓

Marian Engel’s controversial but classic novel Bear.

45. The Conference of the Birds. 04.06.2021 56:11 ↓

Farid ud-Din Attar’s medieval poem The Conference of the Birds.

44b. Bonus: Oriana Schwindt on The Fellowship of the Ring. 30.04.2021 46:00 ↓

Oriana Schwindt (from Tolkien podcast By-The-Bywater) on The Fellowship of the Ring.

44. The Fellowship of the Ring. 20.04.2021 54:25 ↓

The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s foundational fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

43. Braiding Sweetgrass. 05.04.2021 59:35 ↓

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s collection of essays about botany and Indigenous knowledge.

42b. Bonus: Nahir Otaño Gracia on Laxdæla Saga. 24.03.2021 37:07 ↓

Medievalist Nahir I. Otaño Gracia joins us to talk about Laxdæla Saga and other Icelandic sagas.

42. Laxdæla Saga. 15.03.2021 51:57 ↓

The medieval Icelandic Laxdæla Saga, also known as The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr.

41. Exile and Pride. 08.02.2021 51:06 ↓

Eli Clare’s memoir and call to activism, Exile and Pride.

40. The Boys in the Band. 14.01.2021 54:31 ↓

Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play about gay lives.

39. The Metaphysical Poets. 02.01.2021 58:52 ↓

Poems by Andrew Marvell and John Donne.

38b. Bonus: Luther Obrock on the Mahabharata. 22.12.2020 40:07 ↓

Luther Obrock, scholar of Sanskrit poetry, joins us to talk about the Mahabharata and read from the Bhagavad Gita.

38. Mahabharata. 21.12.2020 56:40 ↓

An enormous Sanskrit epic of ancient India, which includes the Bhagavad Gita.

37. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. 15.11.2020 56:29 ↓

Samuel R. Delany's memoir/theoretical tract about sex and the city.

36b. Bonus: Shamma Boyarin on the Disciplina Clericalis. 27.10.2020 40:17 ↓

Shamma Boyarin, assistant professor at the University of Victoria, joins us to discuss Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis.

36. Disciplina Clericalis. 20.10.2020 51:39 ↓

Petrus Alphonsi’s twelfth-century collection of aphorisms and (often salacious) short stories.

35b. Bonus: Loretta Todd on Monkey Beach. 24.09.2020 46:26 ↓

Director Loretta Todd on her feature film adaptation of Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.

35. Monkey Beach. 21.09.2020 58:58 ↓

Eden Robinson’s debut novel is a coming-of-age story that has elements of horror and magic realism, but is deeply rooted in the writer’s own Indigenous Haisla and Heiltsuk culture.

34b. Bonus: Karla Mallette on Purgatorio. 08.09.2020 46:49 ↓

Karla Mallette, scholar of medieval Mediterranean literature, on Dante’s Purgatorio.

34. Purgatorio. 01.09.2020 51:08 ↓

The second part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Purgatorio.