Episodes
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 92.2: Dr. Futurity (2)
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Part 2 of my review of Philip K. Dick's "Dr. Futurity".
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Episode 220: W. E. B. Du Bois: Dusk of Dawn (1)
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Part one of my comments on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Dusk of Dawn," an autobiograhy and statment of American (and global) race relations in the 20th century.
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Episode 119: W E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (2)
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
The second part and finale of my review of W. E. B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk." In the second part of this collection of wounderful essays Du Bois explores some of the cultural and economic aspects of black life in America at the turn of the century.
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 92.1: Dr Futurity (1)
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Saturday Apr 28, 2018
Part one of my review of Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel "Dr. Futurity". It may not be one of his best, but it is rich with ideas, many of which are relevant to us. At the the heart of its concern, the relationship between young people and the systems we hand over to them.
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 91: War Game
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Monday Apr 23, 2018
In "War Game," Philip K. Dick considers the ideology of toys. It makes me think a bit about "Mimsy Were the Borogroves".
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Episode 118: W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (1)
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Monday Apr 23, 2018
I humbly give my comments on what I think is one of the greatest works of American literatre, W. E. B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk".
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 90: Fair Game
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Although this story was written much earlier in Dick's career, "Fair Game" was not published until 1959. A rather silly tale, but good for a chuckle and a little meditation on the nature of how we respond to those who watch us.
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Episode 117: W. E. B. Du Bois: The Suppression of the Slave Trade (2)
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Part two of my review of Du Bois' Ph.D. dissertation on the legal, moral and economic changes that led to the end of the slave trade.
Monday Apr 16, 2018
Episode 116: W. E. B. Du Bois: The Suppression of the Slave Trade
Monday Apr 16, 2018
Monday Apr 16, 2018
"The Suppression of the Slave Trade" was W. E. B Du Bois' Ph.D. dissertation wirtten in Harvard. It is a solid work of legal history exploring the relationship betwene moral progress, legal justice, and economic change.
Monday Apr 16, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 89: Recall Mechanism
Monday Apr 16, 2018
Monday Apr 16, 2018
In this Philip K. Dick story, "Recall Mechanism", we consider the relationship between mental illness and precognition.
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 88: Explorers We
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Friday Apr 13, 2018
The first of Philip K. Dick's stories from 1959, "Explorers We", considers the possiblities of a very strange alien invasion.
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Episode 116: Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Friday Apr 13, 2018
In this episode we say goodbye to Charles W. Chesnutt by looking at a handful of his most important esasys. Next up, W. E. B. Du Bois.
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Episode 114: Charles W. Chesnutt, Assorted Stories
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
In this episode, I look at some of the uncollected stories by Charles W. Chesnutt. We have some more stories in the Julius series, including one on Southern geophagia. There are also some of his "northern stories" dealing wtih the color line from a broader national perspective. There are even a few stories were Chesnutt (out of character) took on issues not relating to the color line at all.
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 87.5: Time Out of Joint (5)
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
The finale of my review of Philip K. Dick's novel "Time Out of Joint".
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 87.4: Time Out of Joint (4)
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Part 4 of my review of Philip K. Dick's "Time Out of Joint".
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Episode 113: Charles W Chesnutt. The Marrow of Tradition (2)
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Part two of my review of Charles Chesnutt's novel "The Marrow of Tradition"
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Episode 112: Charles W. Chesnutt: The Marrow of Traditon (1)
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
The first of two episodes looking at Charles W. Chesnutt's masterpiece, "The Marrow of Tradition", a book on post-Reconstruction politics, race relations, racial violence, and the color line.
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 87.3: Time Out of Joint (3)
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
We go a little bit deeper into the rabbit hole of Ragle Gumm's strange life in part three of my review of Philip K. Dick's "Time Out of Joint".