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Hosted by Steve Chisnell · education · EN-US
Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!
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Signup to Generate a PitchJoin me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!
Literary Nomads is hosted by Steve Chisnell. The show has published 95 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Waypoint: Montgomery’s “Min”" (24 October 2026, 32 minutes), "Spectre-Grey – Dark Montgomery Pt. 2" (12 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Ghost in the Garden – Dark Montgomery Pt. 1" (22 September 2026, 34 minutes).
Literary Nomads publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 95 episodes.
Booking probability for Literary Nomads is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Literary Nomads requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Literary Nomads's contact route on record: verified email.
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Steve Chisnell hosts Literary Nomads, an education podcast with 95 episodes published.
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A rarely met short story by Montgomery, and a bit darker than her Anne books. Resources: Montgomery, L. M.“Min,” 1903. Waypoint – Reading of “Min,” by Lucy Maud Montgomery (pdf of this...
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What is the real story behind the creator of Anne of Green Gables? In the close of this two-part examination of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s life, we examine how her idealized fiction was neither passive memory nor...
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What if Anne of Green Gables wasn’t just an escapist daydream, but a calculated strategy that saved its author’s life? Today we find the divide between L.M. Montgomery’s sunlit public fiction and her...
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Hey, everyone! Thanks for your patience during this unexpected episode delay! A few tech challenges while I upgraded my studio this summer put me a few weeks behind. But this little announcement proves that I’m back up...
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How does the map overwrite the physical territory it claims to represent? Today we look at literary simulations, from the bedroom of Victor Hugo to the Orlando welter of parks and rides. Guided by the semiotics of...
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How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it? We investigate the “imaginative geographies” we project onto other lands, examining how Italo...
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What happens to a real, working community when a fictional landscape is physically constructed on top of it? We discover the socio-economic friction behind literary travel, contrasting the magical ideals of Gabriel...
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Why do we drive thousands of miles just to touch the wooden beams of an author’s birthplace? From Poe’s Baltimore to PEI and Waywords’s own Waterford, MI, we consider what it takes to build a literary...
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Who carries the weight of our leisure? Some readings from the past by thoughtful and resilient women! Take in some early writing of place and circumstance, journals and reflections which reflect the jarring collisions...
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<p> </p> <p>Did your horse throw ya, buddy?</p> <p >We investigate what we hope to achieve by literary travel . . . and why our packing cannot prepare us for it!</p> <p >While the global tourism industry spends billions...
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Did your horse throw ya, buddy? We investigate what we hope to achieve by literary travel . . . and why our packing cannot prepare us for it! While the global tourism industry spends billions to shape our eager...
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<p> </p> <p>What’s the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer?</p> <p >Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap between curated tourist destinations and the open-ended...
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What’s the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer? Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap between curated tourist destinations and the open-ended, ego-stripping...
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<p> </p> <p>Are we consuming an authentic place, or are we willingly participating in a beautifully staged performance designed around our own expectations?</p> <p >In this opening episode of Journey 7, we begin our...
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<p>Welcome to the summer trailhead!</p> <p >Join Journey 7 of Literary Nomads as we explore the secrets of literary tourism and travel writing. Discover how authors like L.M. Montgomery constructed the identity of...
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<p> </p> <p>We are left on the precipice of a severe, unavoidable aporia: when the Empire can absorb and commercialize our very language of protest, the only true ethical act of agency is to stop performing the script...
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<p> </p> <p>Is our intellectual exercise just an expensive lifestyle brand that keeps our hands clean? </p> <p >In this raw, self-interrogating mailbag episode, we turn the lens inward for a vulnerability audit of our...
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<p> </p> <p>Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?</p> <p >Is your irony a mask for your complicity? We’re using William James and David Foster Wallace to interrogate the “sneer trap” of modern irony. From Marvin...
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<p> </p> <p>Is your reading just an “escape”??</p> <p >Your favorite “escape” read might be a gated community for your conscience. Today, we interrogate the “Catharsis Commodity” and ask if our reading habits are just...
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<p> </p> <p>Can Stoicism answer our dilemma?</p> <p >Is the suffering child a product of a world that demands every second and every soul be “useful” to the state? By comparing the “Roman Plow” of duty to the “Sovereign...
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