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Hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols choose one book for each year of the twentieth century (Nella Larsen's Passing, 1936, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 1966; Mohandas Gandhi's Indian Home Rule, 1909) and talk about it in its historical and literary context. Join the hosts and their special guests to find out what the 20th century was all about.


On Saintliness and Despair in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

Brian Hall Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
August 30, 2022  By Lit Century 
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A Party Where the Host Dislikes All the Guests: Revisiting Mrs Dalloway

This Week on the Lit Century Podcast
August 9, 2022  By Lit Century 
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Was Helen Gurley Brown the Jane Austen of Her Era?

Samantha Allen and Briallen Hopper Guest on the Lit Century Podcast
July 12, 2022  By Lit Century 
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Finding Both Comedy and Nightmare in The Man Who Loved Children

K. Austin Collins and John Lingan Guest on the Lit Century Podcast
May 31, 2022  By Lit Century 
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Just How Depressing is Good Morning, Midnight?

The Lit Century Podcast Reads Jean Rhys's 1939 Novel
April 26, 2022  By Lit Century 
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How Do We Live with the Knowledge That We’ll Die?

The Lit Century Podcast Reads The Denial of Death
March 22, 2022  By Lit Century 
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On the Extremely Pleasurable Experience of Reading Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City

Adalena Kavanagh and Jaime Chu Guest on the Lit Century Podcast
December 14, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Revisiting Sunday in the Park with George in the Wake of Sondheim’s Death

Rob Weinert-Kendt Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
December 7, 2021  By Lit Century 
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How Baseball Legend Satchel Paige Sought to Pacify White Fans

Luke Epplin Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
November 30, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Supernatural, Scooby Doo Vibes of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Alex Higley and Willie Fitzgerald Guest on the Lit Century Podcast
November 23, 2021  By Lit Century 
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How Has Freud Changed the Way We Tell Our Stories?

Jessica Gross Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
November 16, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the History and Impact of the Groundbreaking Game Tetris

Tracy Rae Bowling Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
November 9, 2021  By Lit Century 
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“This Is What Poetry’s For.” On Returning to the Work of Louise Glück

A Close Reading of “Mock Orange,” on the Lit Century Podcast
November 2, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Revisiting Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train

Lit Century on the 20th Century’s Interest in “Allowable” Murder
October 26, 2021  By Lit Century 
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How Photography Shaped Wright Morris’s Fiction

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast
October 19, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Is The Great Gatsby Actually Profound?

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast
October 12, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Vivid Landscapes of Alice Munro

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast
October 5, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On Jamaica Kincaid’s Prescient, Unapologetic Lucy

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast
September 28, 2021  By Lit Century 
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How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

Kicking Off Season Two of the Lit Century Podcast
September 21, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast
July 7, 2021  By Lit Century 
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