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A podcast in which we discuss high-craft works of popular culture
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Digression: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything with Arionne NettlesDigression:
Arionne Nettles joins to talk about her new book We Are The Culture: Black Chicago's Influence On Everything, as well as to recommend a couple of novels...
REPOST: Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part II
On our FOURTH EVER episode, Dukes and Bagg explore why they have different emotional responses to Tom Ripley, and how Patricia Highsmith might have...
Episode 51: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part I (REPOST)
Netflix’s new Ripley series has critics musing on why Tom Ripley is such a persistent character in our day and age. Patricia Highsmith created a character...
Episode 50: “Nothing is More Important,” or Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Part II
The Sympathizer is brought to a powerful, if occasionally puzzling conclusion, with the narrator returning to his home country for a series of misadventures....
Digression: Underdogs, Comebacks, and Seafood Substitutes, or Baseball Movies with Jason Herbert
Jason Herbert, from the Historians at the Movies community and podcast, joins us to talk about favorite baseball films. We share an uncomfortable moment...
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