100: Intertextuality: Texts as Echo Systems

What happens when loneliness becomes a surreal landscape? Why do wells, cats, jazz bars, dreams, and parallel worlds recur so insistently in the fiction of Haruki Murakami?This episode of Literary Rides explores Murakami’s distinctive literary universe — a world where modern alie ...  Show more

What does it actually mean to say that language is embodied? How do human beings transform physical experience into abstract thought, metaphor, and meaning? This episode of Literary Rides explores the intellectual foundations of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, ...  Show more

Tonight's sleep story is a special two hour episode of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Published in 1818, this novel, written by a teenaged Mary Shelley, is one of the most influential stories in literature and is possibly the first science fiction novel. In the episode, Captain ...

Born from grief, exile, intellectual ferment and the ‘year without a summer’, Frankenstein is a creation myth with its own creation myth. Mary Shelley’s novel is a foundational work of science fiction, horror and trauma narrative, and continues to spark reinvention and reinterpre ...  Show more

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a new reimagining of Mary Shelly’s classic gothic horror tale about a misunderstood monster who’s abandoned by his creator and shunned by society. Oscar Isaac is the narcissistic doctor Victor Frankenstein, and Jacob Elordi has a gargantuan ye ...  Show more

This week NPAD is on vacation, but as a special treat, we wanted to share an episode of our other podcast, Watch Her Cook, with you. This episode has a few surprising NPAD tie ins, and we are so excited to share it with you all. We will be back to our regularly scheduled National ...  Show more