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Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential and controversial feminine figures in the literary life of the London society. Night and Day is one of her first novels published in 1919 which displays the moral and spiritual issues that people confront. The author herself was an emotionally unstable person, her episodes of mental illness and suicidal depression being recurrent and always brought into the public attention. The novel revolves around the life of the main character, Katherine Hilb ...

Something True brings you incredible and bizarre true stories from the footnotes of history. A dog in the United States Cabinet? A leading rocket scientist who quit his job to make a moonchild? Virginia Woolf donning blackface to prank a navy? They're all true. They're all Something True.

Each week three people from the Minnesota arts community talk about a performance, opening, or event they're excited to see or want others to check out.

Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides. The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC. Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous ...

Welcome to Book Wise, where we explore leadership through books. Books are “uniquely portable magic” (Stephen King) and “mirrors of the soul” (Virginia Woolf). From BookClub.com, host Britt Brewer (with guest host appearances from CEO Jonathan Munk) helps you find the next book that stops you in your tracks… and just might shape your life and career.

A weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach. Updated on Thursdays.

On 9 March 2013, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College host a workshop to mark the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf's path-breaking first novel, set in then Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, The Village in the Jungle. Woolf's novel (the first of only two) is a leading yet often overlooked modernist document and is increasingly recognized as an extraordinarily far-sighted colonial text, an oblique record of his years as a colonial officer in Ceylon (1904-11). It has also bec ...

Masterpiece Theatre meets Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a podcast of highbrow readings and lowbrow commentary. Comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai come together to read aloud classic and not-so-classic literature from the public domain and provide real-time commentary with the help of special guests. Subscribe now to experience the best and worst from the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sherwood Anderson, Jack London, and many more... no one escapes ...

Narrative Edge from Georgia Public Broadcasting highlights books with Georgia connections. Hosted by two of your favorite public radio book nerds who also happen to be your hosts of All Things Considered on GPB radio, Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya . In this podcast Peter and Orlando will introduce you to authors, their writings, and the insights behind their stories mixed with their own thoughts and ideas on just what gives these works the Narrative Edge.

The London Library Podcast features a leading writer or figure in the cultural world discussing the books which have shaped them. The first guest is social historian, author of bestselling The Five and London Library member Hallie Rubenhold. Founded by Thomas Carlyle in 1841 The London Library is one of the world’s great lending libraries and a place of inspiration and support to writers, readers and scholars of all kinds. Well-known members and former members include: Charles Dickens, Charl ...

Drew and Sarah are college friends who share a love of pop culture from 80s music, old Hollywood movies, iconic closeted characters, and campy TV shows. Countless LGBTQ+ stories remain hidden in history, but deserve to be in the spotlight. Drew and Sarah explore the memorable and the not-so-well-known LGBTQ+ people that influenced both their lives and society. Peppered in every story are their hot takes and sass. Listen in, learn, and laugh along as they humorously and affectionately tell th ...

Gli influencer dei libri

Just a millennial musing about books, TV, movies, music, and pop culture all while trying to navigate this sea called the 21st century.

Är du nyfiken på skönlitteratur och annan kultur och vill ha tips av bibliotekarier med koll? Lyssna på Bibliotekspodden Solen! Vi pratar om litteratur kring olika teman och ger också tips på annat inom kulturvärlden som vi gillar. Bibliotekspodden Solen görs av Elias Hillström, Alice Thorburn och Patrik Schylström, bibliotekarier på Stadsbiblioteket i Stockholm.

Dicussions of literature from a philosophical perspective.

Short and sweet summaries of fundamental feminist texts from the past 500+ years. She Speaks Volumes provides a primer for critical moments in the history, theory, and philosophy of feminism. Each episode explores a writer, and their contribution to modern feminism.

Encouraging artistic exploration

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A podcast in which five idiots get together to discuss the finest works of classic literature. Listen to them struggle with subtexts, historical contexts, symbolism and the minor fact that none of them have actually read the book.

Fall asleep fast and wake up restored every night with the power of sleep hypnosis, meditation for sleep, and hypnotic bedtime stories. Sleep Magic is a soothing sleep podcast designed to ease your mind and guide you into a deep, restorative sleep. Hosted by hypnotherapist Jessica Porter, this sleep podcast blends sleep hypnosis, sleep meditation, and guided hypnotic bedtime stories to help listeners around the world get sleepy, fall asleep fast. Find long term relief from insomnia and build ...

In this bibliotherapy podcast, Dr Steven Davies and Dr Alexander Fox discuss the life-changing insights that great books have to offer. Each episode offers an in depth, mental health-focused analysis of a chosen book, and through their conversation, Alex and Steven try to get to the root of how we can best use that author's wisdom to avoid common pitfalls and live happier, more fulfilling lives.

Share the Load explores all things consent, including and beyond sex. I'm your host, Mia Schachter. I'm an intimacy coordinator for film, television, and theater, and a writer and educator in Los Angeles. You can find me on IG @consent.wizardry and you can reach me at [email protected] with listener questions for future episodes. www.consentwizardry.com

What’s the true cost of great art? Faustian pacts with the devil are exciting, sure, but the grim reality of human degredation, pain and suffering is the source for so much of what we treasure today as the greatest books of all time. Join us as we explore the broken authors that wrote our favourite novels. Murder, mental illness, neglect, alcohol and drug abuse all wait within so tread carefully!

Our Friends Said They'd Listen is one of the two greatest podcasts hosted by David and Ron, who host two great podcasts. We talk about all kinds of movies - especially old and obscure ones. Plus really bad ones that we like for some reason. Nobody wears pants during taping (we thought it was important to include that last part).