Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast. We've grown quite significantly since our debut in 2019,

and we've had many requests to highlight older episodes that new listeners may have missed,

as well as revisit listener favorites. To honor that request, I present to you this episode of the best of the Literary Life podcast.

This is not just another book chat podcast.

Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks

for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well.

Explore the lost intellectual tradition

and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature.

Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination.

Each week we will rescue 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 words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted

by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality.

Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world.

This is The Literary Life Podcast. Hello and welcome back to the literary life podcast.

Today, Angelina Stanford, me, and Thomas Banks.

That would be I.

Of course, with the very correct grammar there, we are going to carry on with our series on J.K. Rowling's first book, what I'm calling, Harry Potter Book 1.

And the confusion around this title is, as we have said, because here in the United States, we have sadly, shamefully been robbed of the original British title.

So what was called the Philosopher's Stone in England is called the Sorcerer Stone in the United

States.

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