Episode 259: "Best of" Series - The Literary Life of Thomas Banks (Ep. 78)
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
On The Literary Life Podcast this week, due to unforeseen interruptions to the recording schedule, we are bringing you another episode from the vault. We hope you will enjoy this replay of The Literary Life of Thomas Banks!
Cindy begins the interview asking Thomas about his family background and the influence of his parents on his own reading life. He shares about many of the books he loved in childhood and how that shaped his tastes in literature. He also talks about how he approached school learning as opposed to his personal reading. Angelina asks Thomas to tell about how he fell in love with poetry and how he ended up going to college even though that was not his original goal. He also shares more about his reading as an adult, as well as his habit of keeping commonplace quotations.
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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, |
| 0:07.3 | and we've had many requests to highlight older episodes that new listeners may have missed, |
| 0:12.8 | as well as revisit listener favorites. |
| 0:15.2 | To honor that request, I present to you this episode of the best of the literary life podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | This is not just another book chat podcast. Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers |
| 0:32.9 | Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:40.3 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature. |
| 0:47.3 | Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. |
| 0:52.3 | Each week we will rescue story from the ivory tower and bring it to your |
| 0:57.4 | couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the words of |
| 1:03.7 | Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality. |
| 1:10.9 | Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion |
| 1:13.5 | of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:16.8 | This is The Literary Life Podcast. Hello and welcome to the literary life podcast. |
| 1:39.9 | I am Angelina Stanford and here with me, as always, is the blondest bomb shelliest. |
| 1:48.2 | Cindy Rollins. |
| 1:49.8 | Hello, Cindy. |
| 1:51.0 | Hello. |
| 1:52.5 | And we. |
| 1:53.6 | This is Barbie. |
| 1:55.3 | Oh, thanks, thanks. |
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