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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 the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

Matthew Hunte Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
April 20, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On Domestic Labor and Freedom in Excellent Women

V.V. Ganeshananthan Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
April 13, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

Tyrese L. Coleman Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
April 6, 2021  By Lit Century 
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How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in The Women of
Brewster Place

Tyrese L. Coleman Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
March 30, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel’s 1974 Essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

This week on the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
March 23, 2021  By Lit Century 
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How The End of Vandalism Treats Small-Town America

Adalena Kavanagh in Conversation with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols on Lit Century
March 16, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Was Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled the Greatest Literary Practical Joke of All Time?

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
March 9, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Ultra-Relatable, Modern Burnout of Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6”

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
March 2, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Further Evidence That All Stories Are Hauntings

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
February 23, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Teenage Angst of 20th-Century Literature

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
February 16, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
February 9, 2021  By Lit Century 
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What Can an Intellectual Do? On Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
February 2, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
January 26, 2021  By Lit Century 
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What Makes Flowers in the Attic the Perfect Quarantine Read?

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols
January 20, 2021  By Lit Century 
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On the Reality Behind Shirley Jackson’s Haunted Stories

Benjamin Dreyer Guests on Lit Century to Talk About
The Haunting of Hill House
January 12, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Can We Stop Underrating
Shirley Jackson Now?

Benjamin Dreyer Talks to Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
on Lit Century
January 5, 2021  By Lit Century 
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Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

Isaac Butler Talks to Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
on Lit Century
December 29, 2020  By Lit Century 
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On Religion and Nonviolent Protest in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie

Isaac Butler Guests on Lit Century, with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
December 22, 2020  By Lit Century 
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On Sylvia Plath’s Use of Tastelessness in Ariel

Elisa Gabbert Talks to Sandra Newman and
Catherine Nichols on Lit Century
December 15, 2020  By Lit Century 
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On Catholicism and Doomscrolling in Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols
December 8, 2020  By Lit Century 
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