Episodes
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Episode 228: James Weldon Johnson: Along This Way (2)
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Part 2 of James Weldon Johnson's autobiography "Along This Way" looks at his time in New York with with his brother and his time as a school principal.
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 95.3: The Game-players of Titan (3)
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Part 3 of my review and comments of Philip K. Dick's "The Game-Players of Titan". Thanos has yet to show up.
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Episode 227: James Weldon Johnson: Along this Way (1)
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Tuesday May 29, 2018
"Along This Way" is James Weldon Johnson's autobiography. The first part of it explores his family and his education.
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 95.2: The Game-players of Titan (2)
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Part two of my comments on Philp K. Dick's "The Game-players of Titan".
Thursday May 24, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 95.1: The Gameplayers of Titan (1)
Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
And now for a strange one, "The Game-players of Titan" by Philp K. Dick. What is this one about? Marriage? Gambling? Fertility? Drugs? Mental Illness? Colonialism? Psychotherapy? Classical Music? In a Philip K. Dick novel of the 1960s, it can be about all those things.
Thursday May 24, 2018
James Weldon Johnson: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
A one-off episode on James Weldon Johnson's novel "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man", a story on passing, cigar rolling, and black Manhattan.
Monday May 21, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 94.6: The Man in the High Castle (6)
Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
We have made it to the end of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. Let you know what you think of my finale episode on this Hugo Award-winning novel.
Monday May 21, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 94.5: The Man in the High Castle (5)
Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
Part five of my review of "The Man in the High Castle".
Monday May 21, 2018
Episode 225: W. E. B. Du Bois, Articles from "The Crisis"
Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
Oh..the feels. Time to say goodbye to W. E. B. Du Bois. Maybe we will meet again if The Library of America publishes another volume of your works.
Articles from the "Crisis"--lots of them.
Saturday May 19, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 94.4: The Man in the High Castle (4)
Saturday May 19, 2018
Saturday May 19, 2018
Part four of my comments and review of Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning novel "The Man in the High Castle".
Thursday May 17, 2018
Episode 224: W. E. B. Du Bois, Essays 3
Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
The essays I look at in this episode are from the end of Du Bois' career, including a chapter from his masterpiece "Black Reconstruction in America."
Thursday May 17, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 94.3: The Man in the High Castle (3)
Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
More of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick.
Monday May 14, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 94.2: The Man in the High Castle (2)
Monday May 14, 2018
Monday May 14, 2018
Part 2 of my comments on Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the Hight Castle".
Sunday May 13, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 94.1: The Man in the High Castle (1)
Sunday May 13, 2018
Sunday May 13, 2018
Season 2 of the Philip K. Dick Book Club kicks off with part 1 of my comments on Dick's Hugo Award winning "The Man in the High Castle".
Sunday May 13, 2018
Episode 224: W. E. B. Du Bois, Essays, Part 2
Sunday May 13, 2018
Sunday May 13, 2018
In this episode, I take a look at Du Bois' essays from the post World War I period to the 1920s. Topics include the betrayed promise of natonal self-determination after the war and the Marcus Garvey movement.
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 93.3: Vulcan's Hammer (3)
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
My final episode on "Vulcan's Hammer" by Philip K. Dick.
This also brings to an end "Season 1" of this series on Dick's works, covering the stories and novels of the 1950s. (Vulcan's Hammer and Dr. Futurity, published in 1960, were written much earlier).
I will be back soon with the novels and stories of the 1960s, beginning with "The Man in the High Castle".
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 93.2: Vulcan's Hammer (2)
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Part two of my comments on Dick's 1960 novel "Vulcan's Hammer." A little murder mystery (murder of a computer anyway) thickens the plot.
Monday May 07, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 93.1: Vulcan's Hammer (1)
Monday May 07, 2018
Monday May 07, 2018
The first part of my comments on Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel "Vulcan's Hammer". Not one of his best, to be sure, but one of the more contemporary thematically.
Monday May 07, 2018
Episode 222: W. E. B. Du Bois: Essays, Part 1
Monday May 07, 2018
Monday May 07, 2018
The first of a series on episodes on the essays of W. E. B. Du Bois. These cover the period from his college days to the First World War. with themes such as the founding of "The Crisis" and education.
Thursday May 03, 2018
Episode 221: W. E. B. Du Bois: Dusk of Dawn (2)
Thursday May 03, 2018
Thursday May 03, 2018
Part two of my comments on W. E. B. Du Bois's autobiography and statement on global race relations, "Dusk of Dawn." In this part, we explore Du Bois' thoughts on Africa, empire, and the chaotic early 20th century.
Thursday May 03, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 92.4: Dr. Futurity (4)
Thursday May 03, 2018
Thursday May 03, 2018
The finale of my review of Philip K. Dick's novel "Dr. Futurity" and my thoughts on what it means for us in our time.
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: 92.3: Dr. Futurity (3)
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Part 3 of my comments on Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel, "Dr. Futurity".