Episode 223 || Our Favorite Classics

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We consulted with the rest of the Bookshelf staff and rounded up a list of our favorite "classic" books--whatever that means. Olivia + Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte + The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte + Villette by Charlotte Bronte Nancy + Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte + Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte + The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Lucy + Middlemarch by George Eliot + East of Eden by John Steinbeck + A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Chris + Brave New World by Aldous Huxley + The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger + The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald + The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Annie + To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee + Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger + Little Women by Louisa May Alcott + Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So every year, more or less, I make my annual pilgrimage to the Midwest.
0:06.9	I go to Kalamazoo, Michigan, to the International Congress on Medieval Studies.
0:13.3	I posted some Instagram stories and got some questions from the Front Porch listeners, which I which I thought was very fun like why are you there what you're doing there
0:24.4	what's up what's up what's in Kalamazoo why are you in the middle of nowhere yeah well I was
0:29.4	at Western Michigan University with 2,000 2,500 of my colleagues who study medieval
0:35.1	literature culture and history hard to believe no offense that there are, that there are so many. There are so many. There are a lot. Yeah. And many of us meet in Kalamazoo every May. It's always a lot of fun. I didn't go last year. Oh, I forgot that. Yeah. I just feel like you go every year. I've gone, I think this is my fourth time. Okay. But I didn't go last year. I went this year and I loved it. I always feel really revitalized, refreshed after I meet with those people because it's like a bunch of people who care about the same stuff that I do. Yeah, like a pet rally. Yeah, yeah. But lower key maybe.
1:11.2	Yeah, I mean, and there's controversy.
1:13.3	I don't know if you saw the New York Times article.
1:15.4	Which one?
1:16.3	About Kalamazoo.
1:17.7	Oh, I didn't.
1:18.1	About the fight within medieval studies about reclaiming our field from white supremacy.
1:24.5	Okay.
1:25.4	The New York Times article is not very good.
1:28.0	It paints this like actual real struggle as like a joust between medieval scholars who all
1:36.0	just want to be treated like monks like within their cells.
1:39.0	Like none of that is true.
1:41.1	Nearly all of us got into academia and teaching because we want to mold minds. We
1:47.1	want to inform people about, you know, how actual history works and not white supremacist's history.
1:54.3	Right. Like, none of us want this. None of you are jousting about it in the back room.
1:58.4	No, this is like a real struggle with real stakes.
2:01.9	Yeah.
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