Episodes

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow 16.10.2026 10:01

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles 09.10.2026 10:11

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre 02.10.2026 19:10

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights 25.09.2026 10:13

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 18.09.2026 10:06

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 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . We consider the novel’...

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives 30.08.2026 2:55:10

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 on Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives is free in its entirety. We discuss Bolaño’s romanticism and anarchism, his descent from Troubadours and American novelists, his polemics on Latin Amer...

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude 14.08.2026 14:57

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 Gabriel García Márquez’s monumental novel One Hundre...

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H. 31.07.2026 32:47

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red 24.07.2026 10:07

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Elizabeth Bishop's Questions of Travel and Geography III 17.07.2026 18:49

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Susan Sontag's In America 10.07.2026 15:11

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Gore Vidal's Burr 03.07.2026 21:15

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove 26.06.2026 17:01

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Émile Zola's Nana 12.06.2026 10:10

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot and Sarrasine 29.05.2026 10:05

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: George Sand's Indiana 15.05.2026 10:04

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Stendhal's The Red and the Black 08.05.2026 16:26

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante's Paradiso 24.04.2026 16:11

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante's Purgatorio 17.04.2026 16:01

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante's Inferno 10.04.2026 20:06

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Dante 09.04.2026 1:32:59

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...

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Virgil's Aeneid 03.04.2026 10:06

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (3) 20.03.2026 15:03

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (2) 13.03.2026 20:02

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1) 06.03.2026 19:32

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...