Episode 240: "Best of" Series - The Importance of Detective Fiction, Ep. 3
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Literary Life Podcast, we bring you another episode from the vault, this time to prepare you for our upcoming discussion of Dorothy L. Sayers' detective novel Murder Must Advertise. In this conversation, Angelina and Cindy talk all things related to the detective novel. Why do we love detective fiction so much? What are the qualities of a good detective novel? What is the history of detective fiction, and how did World War I bring about the Golden Age of the genre? Angelina and Cindy answer all these questions and more. Be sure to visit the shownotes page for this episode for links to all the books and authors mentioned in this episode here -->> https://theliterary.life/240/.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | We've grown quite significantly since our debut in 2019, |
| 0:07.0 | and we've had many requests to highlight older episodes that new listeners may have missed, |
| 0:12.0 | as well as revisit listener favorites. |
| 0:15.4 | To honor that request, I present to you this episode of the Best of the Literary Life |
| 0:20.3 | podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | This is not just another book chat podcast. Lifelong reader |
| 0:27.3 | Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing |
| 0:32.1 | conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:36.0 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter into the great works of literature. |
| 0:43.9 | Learn what books mean while delighting |
| 0:46.1 | in the sheer joy of imagination. |
| 0:49.5 | Each week we will rescue story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. |
| 0:57.1 | The literary life is for everyone because in the words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by storyott to be enchanted a deeper insight into reality. |
| 1:07.2 | Join us for an ever unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:13.0 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. Well, we are excited to be back on the Literary Life podcast today. And today I think |
| 1:38.1 | Angeline and I are both excited to be talking about Detective Fiction, one of our all-time favorite genres. But before we start |
| 1:46.4 | talking, we're going to do what we do every week. We are going to share our commonplace |
| 1:51.1 | quotes with you. So Angelina, what do you have for us today? |
| 1:56.2 | All right, so as we go through the course of this podcast, |
| 2:01.8 | we are going to talk a lot about what it means to read and to read well. |
| 2:05.0 | And so I wanted to share a quote from CS Lewis from his essay, |
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