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Hosted by Wesley Schantz · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 366 episodes
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Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life:O, she's warm!If this be magic, let it be an artLawful as eating.- The Winter's TaleYou're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski
Wesley Schantz hosts Bookwarm Games, a society show with 366 episodes published.
We're joined by our friend in Finland, Otto Lehto, who is actually up after midnight to talk The Odyssey with us. The discourse, the spectacle, the poem and the film briefly considered. Thanks for listening. Next time, K
More fights, more deaths, and more frenzy as we approach the tail end of the romantic epic of European male insecurity. Thanks for listening. The essay on Harington referenced: https://journals.openedition.org/palimpsest
Squabbling over horses and swords. Watching the Beast on Merlin's big screen. The usual. But also, Zerbino dies?! Thanks for listening.
They get got by the Plan, a mixture of Sefirot and Great Beauty. See also: Call Me By Your Name, feat. the music of Sufjan Stevens. We may be reading 2666 next! Thanks for listening.
Approaching the end of the mystery, Pow and the others concoct the Plan. Thanks for listening.
The frenzy descends upon Orlando, bringing us to the close of Reynolds' first volume. Thanks for listening.
Building up to the Plan. Thanks for listening.
Continuing to ruminate on the rollicking Renaissance epic. Thanks for listening.
Discussing His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, from the bench in the Botanic Garden to the Moon Festival at the end of The Rose Field, with the human and daemon behind His Dork Materials. Includes the origin story o
The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Chrono Trigger prompted us to write about the game, and we've submitted our essays at last. Reflections on the drafts, as you might imagine, open up big questions and some ideas for next st
Continuing our reading and reflecting on the magical mayhem of Ariosto's countless characters whose names we can't--or don't want to--recall. Thanks for listening.
We consider the curious case of Foucault's Pendulum, Eco's conspiratorial follow-up to the Name of the Rose. Thanks for listening.
Musing on another "beguiling" little book and its companionable relationship to His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Not the "little green book" we were (possibly?) promised, about Will as a surgeon and all, but a da
Ariosto's epic-romantic song of knights and magic, spared from the burning of the books in Don Quixote. Thanks for listening.
AKA Blade Runner. We consider the source material by Philip K Dick. Thanks for listening.
Another little book in the His Dark Materials/Book of Dust series, not about Lyra but her mother. Sort of. Recommended: Kate Bush, Lyra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE5PmGIBfNg About the dedication - https://www.the
Continuing our playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics with a review of events leading up to the battle at Zeirchele Falls. Thanks for listening!
On summer break, we three night scholars have decided to try reading outside our usual canons and genres, starting with the highly allusive, at times bizarre, but overall quite epic and gripping sci-fi novel Hyperion by
Gaetan is a longtime denizen of Cittagazze, the premier French-language source for news and gathering-place for readers of Philip Pullman. Among his contributions, the page dedicated to the poetry of The Book of Dust: ht
Dr Elizabeth Walsh is a Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge and has written on the curation of Pullman's work and inspirations in museums. His Dark Materials Among the Displays , the Pitt Rivers Museum, Dec
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