562 Literature Later in Life (with Myron Tuman)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jacke starts the show with a listener email and a look at Emily Dickinson's Poem #238 ("How many times these low feet staggered - "). THEN author Myron Tuman (The Stuttering Son in Literature and Psychology: Boys and Their Fathers, Don Juan and His Daughter: The Incestuous Lover in the Female Literary Imagination, stops by for a discussion of his early career, his rediscovery of his passion for nineteenth-century narratives, and the slew of books about literature he's written since then. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. 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 Podglomerate Network and LitHub Radio.
0:09.6	Hello, what happens when you love literature and then you spend your career on literature
0:14.6	adjacent topics, and then later in life, you rediscover your passion for 19th century narratives.
0:22.6	You might start writing books, not just a book or two, but a whole flood of them.
0:27.9	We'll talk to a man who did just that today on the History of Literature.
0:32.9	Okay, hello everyone, welcome to November.
0:40.2	I'm Jack Wilson, glad to be here with you and glad you are here with me.
0:44.2	Those ears of yours are very special to me.
0:47.5	My voice is beaming out there, wandering aimlessly, looking for a home and finding one in your
0:55.2	ears.
0:56.2	I'm a brain, I guess that's how this works out.
0:59.3	Today we have a slightly unusual guest I think you will find, and the origins of this
1:04.3	episode were a little unusual too.
1:06.6	One of the show's listeners, Jeremy, sent me an email and said, I think my father and
1:11.0	his interests might be of interest to you.
1:14.4	That's a paraphrase.
1:15.9	And after reading a list of his father's titles, the books that his father has written,
1:20.4	I agreed.
1:22.4	And to talk to Jeremy's father, Myron Tumon, an author extraordinaire.
1:28.3	What interested me in going through Myron's catalog is that for a long stretch of time
1:33.4	his books were about other things, educational software and composition and writing and literacy,
1:40.5	grammar and punctuation, how to think critically, not really literature, but literature adjacent.
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