Episode 274: The Literary Life of Dr. Anne Phillips
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Literary Life Podcast, our hosts Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks are back with a new “Literary Life of…” interview, this time with their teaching colleague at House of Humane Letters, Dr. Anne Phillips. In addition to her classes at HHL, you can also find Dr. Phillips writing on Substack.
Angelina starts off the conversation asking Anne about her reading life growing up and her homeschool experience. She talks about how she came to love the Greek myths and started pursuing Latin. The three of them discuss how having a diet of truly good literature cultivates discernment in reading less valuable books. They also share thoughts on writing as imitation and the great importance of having good ideas over knowing particular forms. Anne also talks about her college and graduate school experiences and the challenges of being in academia in our current culture. They wrap up the conversation with a little look into what Dr. Phillips reading life looks like now as a working, homeschooling mother and wife.
To register for Dr. Phillips and Jenn Rogers’ upcoming mini-class, “The Great Divide”, please visit HouseofHumaneLetters.com.
To view the full show notes for this episode, along with all the books mentioned, please visit our website at https://theliterary.life/274.
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. |
| 1:30.4 | Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm Angelina Stanford and here today, along with my usual cohort. |
| 1:38.7 | I, who am not Peter Hitchens. |
| 1:43.2 | You are not Peter Hitches. |
| 1:48.0 | We are here with a very special guest for our literary life of episode. |
| 1:52.3 | Please welcome to the podcast, our very own Dr. Ann Phillips. |
| 1:53.2 | Hello. |
| 1:53.9 | Hello. |
| 1:55.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:57.7 | We are excited for this conversation. |
| 2:01.2 | If you're wondering why my husband just blurted out, I'm not Peter Hitchens. |
| 2:06.3 | It's because the last literary life of episode that we did was with Peter Hitchens. |
| 2:08.1 | So no, he is not a permanent member of this podcast, sadly. |
| 2:12.0 | Yeah, I think that one went really well. |
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