Extra Literary Affairs Podcast

Street Haunting: A London Adventure - Virginia Woolf

New Episode!
Check out this week's new episode as we change it up and discuss an essay, for the first time ever!  Follow along as we walk the streets of London with Woolf and experience the imagination.

Extra Literary Affairs - The Empty House - Algernon Blackwood

Welcome back to another episode of Extra Literary Affairs, a LitFiction podcast.  Today I am exploring and engaging with the tradition of reading creepy ghost stories during long cold nights of the holiday season.  I am advocating for everyone to read ghost stories to help us make it through the winter and connect us to ancient traditions.  There is no better ghost short story than "The Empty House" at 9-10 pages long, this is a short but incredibly sharp tale that will literally give you chills.

One Christmas Eve - Langston Hughes

Check out this week's episode where we discuss "One Christmas Eve" by Langston Hughes. Follow along as we analyze the technical structure of this story and the nuance of this holiday story.

Extra Literary Affairs - Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde

Welcome back to another episode of Extra Literary Affairs, a LitFiction podcast.  Today I am discussing and analyzing Audre Lorde's essay, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power".  In it, she advocates for us to forget out connection forged for us between the word "erotic" and adult content.  When we reclaim fully embracing our experiences, we can live a fuller life and rebel against oppressive forces.

End of Year Reading Wrap Up

Check out this week's episode where we reflect on this past year of reading on our podcast and in our personal reading lives.  We discuss our favorites, our least memorable, and stories we wished we had analyzed.
 
 

A Letter to George Saunders by Jennifer

Check out this week's new episode as Jennifer discusses her love for the work of George Saunders.

Ghoul - George Saunders

New Episode!
Check out this week's episode where we discuss "Ghoul" by George Saunders featured in the New Yorker in 2020.  Listen along as Jennifer and Joey delve deeper into this underground world and try to discover is plethora of secrets.
 
#literature #shortstory #reading 

Extra Literary Affairs - The Chimney Sweeper - William Blake Poetry

Welcome back to another episode of Extra Literary Affairs, a LitFiction podcast.  This week I am discussing two poems by William Blake that share the same name, "The Chimney Sweeper".  Follow along as I explore his life, the inspiration for his work, and the journey of the fiction chimney sweeper as he grows from young and innocent to old and experienced.
 
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