Episodes
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Episode 341: Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe (1): Professors are Nuts
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
In THE GROVES OF ACADEME Mary McCarthy studies the insane world at a small liberal college. Like all of the other groups McCarthy studies, the whole is certainly less than the sum of its parts.
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
Episode 340: Mary McCarthy, The Oasis
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
Onto the second Mary McCarthy novel in this episode. THE OASIS is about an intentional community of crazy intellectuals doing crazy, petty, and stupid stuff. Sounds like a university.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Episode 339: Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, Chapters 5-6
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
What a great novel! I finish my thoughts on Mary McCarthy's debut novel THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS in this episode. These chapters look at American Trotskyism and the psychological confessional.
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Episode 338: Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, Chapters 1-4
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
We begin a new series looking into the early works of the brilliant Mary McCarthy. In this episode we begin with THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS, a novel of interconnected stories dealing with the contradictions in the life of a modern American woman.
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
Episode 337: The Future is Female, Part 5
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
This is the finale episode covering the stories in THE FUTURE IS FEMALE written since 1963. One of the highlights of this section is Ursula K Le Guin's "Nine Lives" about cloning and individualism. Overall a nice anthology. Next up, Mary McCarthy.
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Episode 336: The Future is Female, Part 4
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
This episode continues my review of the THE FUTURE IS FEMALE anthology. I look at stories from the 1960s. Women writers in during the "New Wave" era looked at themes of gender, population, family, and sexuality with a bit more intensity.
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Episode 335: The Future is Female, Part 3
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
A few more stories from THE FUTURE IS FEMALE anthology. These are stories from the mid-1950s, including Zenna Henderson's "Ararat" and Alice Jones' "Created He Them" (a forerunner of A HANDMAID'S TALE)