260 HoL Presents Diksha Basu from the Storybound Project

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jacke Wilson and the History of Literature Podcast present a special guest episode from the Storybound project. Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by Jude Brewer and with original music composed for each episode, the podcast features the voices of today’s literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction. In this episode, Diksha Basu reads an excerpt from her novel The Windfall with sound design and music composition from Katelyn Convery. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. The History of Literature Podcast is a partner with Lit Hub Radio and a member of the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to the History of Literature. Okay, hello everyone, how are you? I hope you are well. This is one of the hardest years I can remember,
0:36.6	maybe the hardest, what happened to the Queen in that honest Hor horribleus she had.
0:43.0	Three of her children had their marriages fall apart
0:46.0	and her palace caught on fire.
0:48.0	Well, America is never won for second place finishes, are they?
0:51.0	I think they've topped the Queen. We just keep
0:55.0	falling further and further into I don't know what. Despair, the abyss, But we also have room for hope. I have to admit it's getting better, can't
1:07.7	get no worse. Somewhere in there, somewhere in here is room for hope.
1:13.9	I'll probably die an optimist, as one of my friends said,
1:18.2	die, my final breath, my final exhalation
1:21.6	will be me hoping that maybe things aren't as bad as they seem.
1:25.6	So let's do what we can to cheer ourselves up.
1:29.2	Steady the ship as it were. We need to keep our wits about us don't we keep some calm in our lives
1:36.4	keep some reason for feeling uplifted here's what we have today this is
1:40.9	exciting we have a wonderful excerpt from a wonderful novel
1:44.2	read by the author herself, Iksha Basu. It comes from our friends at the Podglamaret
1:49.6	and the Storybound Project. So let's do this. We'll do some listener emails, which also
1:55.1	cheers me up. The listeners to this little podcast. I kind of can't believe it
1:59.9	sometimes. How wonderful they are. You are, you hear me, wonderful.
2:05.0	Wonderful, wonderful, the world can be good again, people.
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