Waywords Podcast
1) Literary Nomads for Students
3 Oct 2025 Episode 0.2 - Literary Nomads for Students What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the la...Show More
2) Literary Nomads for Readers
26 Sept 2025 Episode 0.1 - Literary Nomads for Readers What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the l...Show More
3) Le Guin – What I Carry With Me
19 Sept 2025 Episode 6.14 - Le Guin - What I Carry With Me Now that we've wrestled in and with Omelas for a bit, what questions remain for us to take forward on our journey? We...Show More
4) Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
12 Sept 2025 Episode 6.13 - Le Guin Part 5: Q&A Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant--or respond--back. Important Links Mentioned: ...Show More
5) Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin
5 Sept 2025 Episode 6.12 - Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay - N. K. Jemisin Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more levels of complication? When we wrestle with Le Guin, ...Show More
6) Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth
29 Aug 2025 Episode 6.11 - Le Guin Part 3: The Reader's Labyrinth Sure, the Omelas dilemma is tough, but at least we have our narrator as ally, right? Right? Perhaps the real horror in Omelas has le...Show More
7) Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness
22 Aug 2025 Episode 6.10 - Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness Is this story really about that suffering child? Or is it more about how we wall its suffering out, then invite it back in? We als...Show More
8) Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
15 Aug 2025 Episode 6.09 - Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain At last we settle in to think about Le Guin's Omelas story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts. We als...Show More
9) Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias
8 Aug 2025 Episode 6.08 - Gardens of Imagination - Narrative Utopias Let's niche down into a small sub-genre of fantasy and explore our desire for it, the classic utopia. As Le Guin's work is utopia...Show More
10) In Defense of Fantasy
1 Aug 2025 Episode 6.07 - In Defense of Fantasy Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows! Today we wonder at both the disdain of ...Show More