The following is an archived podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for Podcast Recovery.

This podcast is entitled A Novel Podcast, Academia in Repose.

It is the first and only episode of the podcast.

Welcome to episode one.

In the Episcopalian tradition, what you see is the unfolding of the modern narrative into a precisely middle-class form.

Novels were a great source of entertainment that were not temporal, but everlasting, ever-rewarding things.

Nowadays, even though most writers have to go to graduate school to write,

and most have to have the wealth necessary to take the risk of it,

the novel itself is still a very middle-class tradition.

For instance, the qualms of desire are interchangeable for the use of,

let's call it metafiction.

Soon, the exasperation of greed, post-post colonialism,

pseudoscientific god postulates, gregarious chemistry, arrogant demagoguery, and quote, unquote,

husbands that do be leaving the toilet seat up, can be interpreted as the raging urge to redefine, formerly the presence of a motive of nation-building and cohesion

that can violate the attempts of Philistines to create a healthy, democratic kleptocracy.

In short, I find the putrid novel, Cat in the Hat, as a droll work, and four children.

Do not ask me about the vile, Cat in the hat. That was from my New York

University, MFA thesis, R.E. colon fiction. My name is August Riverford. Welcome to

Illuminations and Ruminations. This is less of a podcast per se, but an audiobook project by some of the most

prestigious writers in academia. I am joined today by Casper Novak, a creative writing professor at Duke

and the author of three novels. Casper, greetings. How do you do, August? I'm also here with

Yergen Nazlson, author of My Personal Holocaust.

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