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How Fantasy Reflects Our World

How Fantasy Reflects Our World

Season 1 Episode 5
6:00
Can You Judge a Book By Its Cover?

Can You Judge a Book By Its Cover?

Season 1 Episode 7
7:43
Fear of Ghost...Writing!

Fear of Ghost...Writing!

Season 1 Episode 8
8:39
Unreliable Narrators

Unreliable Narrators

Season 1 Episode 9
7:36
Death, Personified

Death, Personified

Season 1 Episode 11
8:58
How Greek Mythology Inspires Us

How Greek Mythology Inspires Us

Season 1 Episode 12
10:09
The Case for Fan Fiction

The Case for Fan Fiction

Season 2 Episode 1
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It's Lit!

An Ode to the Romance Novel

Season 1 Episode 4

Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject of intrigue, derision, and shame in literary discourse long before the modern genre as we know it existed.

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Toni Morrison’s Opus About Confronting a Terrible Past
9:41
To understand Beloved, we must first look at the author: Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison.
Why Magical Realism is a Global Phenomenon
10:03
We explore the roots, tenets of the genre, and its rise in Latin American Literature.
Why Edgar Allan Poe Isn't Just a Sad Boy
11:03
His legacy is more complicated than school books may have lead us to believe.
Inside the Absurdist Mind of Kurt Vonnegut
15:11
We explore the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut.
The Women of Jane Austen
18:33
The women in her work reveal to us her growth, her politics and ambition.
Why We Keep Retelling the Classics
12:30
Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating.
What We Don’t Know About The Father of Sci-Fi
17:12
There's more to H.G. Wells than we know or think.
Why Do People Think Huck Finn Is Racist?
13:34
It is considered one of the great American novels and one of the most frequently banned.
The Life behind To Kill a Mockingbird
12:31
it is one of the trademark texts of the American school system by Harper Lee.
Don’t Know Much About BEOWULF? Nobody Does!
12:56
We take a look at this Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey.
The Female Writers Who Dominated Amatory Fiction
11:52
Amatory fiction was a genre of fiction was created by…women.
Octavia Butler, The Grand Dame of Science Fiction
14:34
She is one of the most prolific and important Black authors in the genre.
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