The NewlyReads Podcast
1) Hurston Bonus: The NewlyReads Game
Kylie takes on another NewlyReads Game. New stakes are introduced and street pennies are argued over.
2) Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kylie makes Dan read Hurston's beautiful short novel about a woman chasing her horizon. They discuss Hurston's reputation with her contemporaries, the novel's engagement with Transcende...Show More
3) Kobek Bonus: The CIA and Literary Fiction
In this freewheeling bonus episode, Kylie and Dan assess Jarett Kobek's claim in I Hate the Internet that "the good novel, as an idea, was created by the Central Intelligence Agency." Kylie summa...Show More
4) Jarett Kobek's I Hate the Internet
Dan Makes Kylie read Jarett Kobek's scree against our contemporary moment. Dan explains why I Hate the Internet is a valuable reflection of the way internet discourse has broken all of our brains...Show More
5) Lawrence Bonus: The NewlyReads Game
As a bonus episode accompanying last week's discussion of Women in Love, Dan tests Kylie's knowledge of D.H. Lawrence's sentence level style with another installation of The NewlyReads ...Show More
6) D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love
Kylie makes Dan read D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1920). Together, they discuss the novel's place in the Modernist canon, explore its depiction of a restrictive and generally doomed Brita...Show More
7) Nabokov Bonus: Introducing The NewlyRead Game!
In the bonus episode on Nabokov's Pale Fire, Kylie and Dan discuss what characterizes Nabokov's sentence-level style. Then, they debut The NewlyReads game, a passage identification quiz desi...Show More
8) Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
Dan makes Kylie read Nabokov's fictional scholarly edition of a poem by a fictional poet--it's fiction on fiction on fiction! They discuss the thin line between scholarship and conspiracy th...Show More
9) Vandermeer Bonus! A Visit to Ambergris
In their second interstitial episode, The NewlyReads examine Jeff Vandermeer's first weird landscape by discussing "The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris" from the collection Cit...Show More
10) Jeff Vandermeer's Borne
It's a podcast with a face! This week, Kylie has Dan read an author known with putting human faces on any old thing and calling it scary. Which, strangely, works every time.