#12 Harper Lee Was Racist, Though.

This week Rai, Alex and Derek are talking everything from writers prizes to TikTok Awards and we ask: do these prizes make a difference?We also discuss The Booker Prize Longlist: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2024Let us know your thoughts!mostlylit@gm ...  Show more

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Welcome back to a new series of discussions on another beloved novel, this time on one of the best American novels ever written. In this episode, we talk about Harper Lee’s use of voice in telling the story (and why it’s somewhat similar to Jane Austen), the importance of the cha ...  Show more

For our penultimate episode in this series David talks to Kathleen Stock about Roland Barthes’s idea of the Death of the Author (1967). Once very fashionable, the notion that readers not writers are the arbiters of what a text means has had a long and sometimes painful afterlife. ...  Show more

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been held as a seminal book of required reading in America. But after multiple acts of violence were linked back to it, people wondered if the text could incite people to do malicious things… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca ...  Show more

And just like that we're on to J.D. Salinger's controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they discuss why this book is so loved and yet so hated and why it's taught so often. Plus, they discuss the foul language problem, Holden's cynicism, whether ...  Show more