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The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake ; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights . Season three journeyed through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In season four, we considered Journey to the West . For season five, we talk about a kind of writing that's filled many massive books: the American short story. Season six: The Brothers Karamazov.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming, books of dreams, infinity, mysteries, turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights.
The Cosmic Library is hosted by Adam Colman. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "7.5 In Search of Lost Time: Surprise Ending" (18 March 2026, 33 minutes), "7.4 In Search of Lost Time: Art vs. Jealousy" (11 March 2026, 31 minutes), and "7.3 In Search of Lost Time: Wasting Time" (4 March 2026, 24 minutes).
The Cosmic Library publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for The Cosmic Library is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Cosmic Library requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Cosmic Library's contact route on record: verified email.
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Adam Colman hosts The Cosmic Library, an arts podcast with 42 episodes published.
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Episode #5
In Time Regained , the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time , an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes' mansion. He’s thinking...
Episode #4
The Prisoner —the fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time —spirals through the vortex of the narrator’s jealousy concerning Albertine. Something of that vortex churns on into The Fugitive —the sixth volume—and then...
Episode #3
The “lost time” of In Search of Lost Time can connote “wasted time,” and Marcel Proust’s narrator does confront wastes of time, through pretentious conversations and moments when habit takes control. But the...
Episode #2
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time follows the development of a self. The narrator grows up in Combray, in the seaside town of Balbec, in Paris, and resolves to become a writer. But that narrative also encompasses...
Episode #1
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time lifts off on page after page, but it always returns to earth, back to the narrator’s memories and thoughts and experiences. Somehow, this seven-volume French novel from the early...
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The new season of The Cosmic Library is on the way, and this time we’re talking about—and listening to—Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time . Conversations go everywhere: we’re thinking about the nature of time...
Episode #5
By now, it's clear that The Brothers Karamazov sits comfortably on the shelf of books of infinity, books that can never be completed. It is, for one thing, only the first part of a plan Dostoevsky had for much more. But...
Episode #4
In this season of The Cosmic Library, you’ve heard us discuss how Fyodor Dostoevsky's Karamazov brothers converge, even as they're on seemingly distinct tracks. And the novel directs attention to convergences in...
Episode #3
In The Brothers Karamazov , Fyodor Dostoevsky created his ultimate novel of ideas, with brothers Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha pursuing a range of philosophical, theological, and political arguments and questions even as a...
Episode #2
In The Brothers Karamazov , Fyodor Dostoevsky puts ideas into motion, and into emotional conflict, with combustible results. The convictions he expressed in his nonfiction—religious convictions, for instance—join a mix...
Episode #1
Here, in the first episode of The Cosmic Library ’s new season, we start with our radio-play adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov . The play is read for you by people who make fictions—two novelists and...
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Here it is: the trailer for season six of The Cosmic Library , which comes out this month. It’s "Karamazov Season," which means this five-episode miniseries will go into and beyond The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor...
Episode #5
The word “story” often comes after the word “bedtime,” and for good reason. Stories can frighten us, disturb and shock us, prompt us to change our thinking, but compared to most experiences, reading a story is tranquil...
Episode #4
“If my college-age self, reading White Noise, had thought I would one day be discussing word placement with Don DeLillo, I would have had a heart attack,” Deborah Treisman says in this episode. Since those days, in her...
Episode #3
American short stories started out weird. Consider Nathaniel Hawthorne, as we just did in episode two this season—or, consider Edgar Allan Poe. Existential strangeness and cosmic peril pervade these nineteenth-century...
Episode #2
It’s time for a story. In this episode of our season on short stories in the United States, you'll hear Nathaniel Hawthorne’s mysterious short story “Wakefield,” read by the actor Max Gordon Moore. It’s a story from the...
Episode #1
The Cosmic Library has always followed notions, tangents, and moods prompted by books that can never be neatly summarized or simply decoded. This new season is no exception. Still, there's a difference: we're prompted...
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The trailer is here for the new season of The Cosmic Library ! This five-episode season concerns a subject both smaller and vaster than any massive book, and that subject is: short stories in the United States. You’ll...
Here, in the conclusion of our five-episode season on The Hall of the Monkey King , you’ll hear about Journey to the West ’s capacity for reinvention across centuries—about, in other words, its openness to different...
You can encounter Journey to the West in film, on television, in comic books—it’s a sixteenth-century novel that lives comfortably in an age of cinema and video games. This episode, then, follows a tangent away from the...
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Music Instructor at Inver Hills Community College, Alberta Professional Fire Fighters & Paramedics Association
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