The NewlyReads Podcast
1) Archive Episode: Jeff Vandermeer's Borne
Send us a text Jeff Vandermeer weirds nature. We try to set it right again. A note on this episode: The Newlyreads began in 2020 as a project between two newly-married PhD students in literature. Arou...Show More
2) Jarett Kobek's I Hate the Internet
Send us a text In this episode, Dan and Kylie discuss a weird novel about the internet by somebody who has written other novels we've liked. A note on this episode: The Newlyreads began in 2020 as a p...Show More
3) Archive Episode: Don DeLillo's White Noise
Send us a text In this episode, Dan and Kylie discuss a novel that served as the seed of Kylie's dissertation on spy fiction. A note on this episode: The Newlyreads began in 2020 as a project between...Show More
4) Archive Episode: Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck
Send us a text In this episode, Dan and Kylie discuss Adrienne Rich's monumental 1973 poetry collection Diving into the Wreck. A note on this episode: The Newlyreads began in 2020 as a project between...Show More
5) Hurston Bonus: The NewlyReads Game
Kylie takes on another NewlyReads Game. New stakes are introduced and street pennies are argued over.
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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