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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Susan Sontag’s In America . Most of the episode conc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is about Gore Vidal’s revisionist historical novel of the Ame...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Within a Budding Grove , the second volume of Marcel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is about Émile Zola’s Nana . We first discuss Zola’s life and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is about Honoré de Balzac’s most famous novel, Père Goriot ,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is about George Sand’s novel Indiana . We discuss Sand—the mo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Stendhal’s The Red and the Black . We speculate on S...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Dante’s Paradiso . We consider the arrangement of Da...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Dante’s Purgatorio . We dwell, in this most human of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is about Dante’s Inferno . We consider the conceptual and phi...

Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This free bonus episode, the prologue to a three-part series on the Divine Comedy , is about the life, times, and poetics of Dante. If you enjoy it, please offer a paid subscription to access the rest of th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is on Virgil’s Aeneid . We discuss the distinction between th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is the third in a three-part sequence on The Brothers Karamaz...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is the second in a three-part sequence on The Brothers Karama...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is the first in a three-part sequence on The Brothers Karamaz...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the third in a three-part sequence on Anna Karenina by Leo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the second in a three-part sequence on Anna Karenina by Le...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the first in a three-part sequence on Anna Karenina by Leo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is the final in a four-part sequence on Thomas Mann’s novel T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the third in a four-part sequence on Thomas Mann’s novel T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the second in a four-part sequence on Thomas Mann’s novel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here . The 2024 and 2025 archives are here . This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is the first in a four-part sequence on Thomas Mann’s novel T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here . The 2024 archive is here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, belongs to a sequence on the modern American novel. It concerns Paradise...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here . The 2024 archive is here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, belongs to a sequence on the modern American novel. It concerns The Name...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here . The 2024 archive is here . This episode, of which the first 10 minutes are free, is the 10th in a 15-week sequence on the modern American novel. It conce...