Episode 254: The Literary Life 2025 Season Preview
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this special preview episode of The Literary Life Podcast! In this episode, our hosts Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks share the books and topics you can look forward to in the upcoming 2025 season of the podcast. This episode was recorded live with the Patreon supporters for our December All Fellows Eve. In addition to giving a taste of what to expect in the coming year, they also look back at the past year and touch on a few favorite books covered in 2024.
In this coming year we plan to have several new “Literary Life of…” interviews, as well as several topical episodes discussing ideas such as classical education, the literary tradition, and what to do when you don’t like the characters in a book. Listen to the full episode to hear what new books you can look forward to reading with us in 2025!
For complete show notes and links to all the books mentioned, please visit https://theliterary.life/254/.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is not just another book chat podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:32.6 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature. |
| 0:40.2 | Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue |
| 0:47.1 | story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the |
| 0:55.9 | words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into |
| 1:02.2 | reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life podcast. |
| 1:33.1 | Welcome to a very special episode of the Literary Life podcast. |
| 1:38.1 | I'm Angelina Stanford, and I'm here not only with the mysterious Mr. Banks, |
| 1:42.2 | I am here with our live studio audience. |
| 1:44.3 | Laugh track now, applause track now. Yes, we are here with our live studio audience. Laugh track now. |
| 1:45.5 | Applaug track now. |
| 1:49.1 | Yes, we are here with our live studio audience, our Patreon, |
| 1:57.2 | where we are going to be talking about our preview of the 2025 podcast schedule. |
| 1:58.5 | They're all excited. |
| 1:59.3 | They're so eager. |
| 1:59.9 | Look at them. But first, I have to confess that |
| 2:01.6 | saying out loud, welcome to a very special episode. My mind immediately went back to like every 80 |
| 2:08.1 | sitcom. Like, is this where you confront me because I'm popping caffeine pills to stay awake |
| 2:12.8 | during finals week? Sorry, that one was pretty, that was pretty darn obscure. |
| 2:17.9 | There was a, okay, there was a family tie. |
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