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Grad School Achebe #2: 2 Things 2 Apart!
Grad School Achebe #2: 2 Things 2 Apart!
Gerry and Aaron are back for more Things Fall Apart, talking about parts two and three of the novel! We also talk The Sopranos, Watchmen, Breaking Bad, bad fans, The Things Fall Apart film, just a little Vonnegut, and Achebe’s 1973 essay “Named for Victoria, Queen of England”…
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GSA1: Things Fall Apart chapters 1-13
GSA1: Things Fall Apart chapters 1-13
It’s all happening again…
GSV23: GALÁPAGOS!
This is the one the podcast has always been building towards: Gerry, Aaron, and special guest Brian Thill take on Galápagos. Does it hold up? Is it secretly the best Vonnegut novel? Can Kurt wriggle out of being canceled one last time? Only our big brains know for sure…
GSV22: “EPICAC”!
GSV22: “EPICAC”!
Gerry and Aaron return for a discussion of “EPICAC” (1950)! Join us for a meandering tour of automation, machine learning, feminism, suicide, the war machine, masculinity, STEM, and so much more…
Ye Old Link Roundup!
Ye Old Link Roundup!
I updated my professional website with online article and interviews for the first time in four years. So, yeah, I guess you could say I’m not doing great.Special issue of Loading on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.Second Languages and Jesuit Core Education.Still stripping the walls of copper wire on his way out the door: Trump sought to tap Sidney Powell as special counsel for election fraud.…
GSA #7: A MAN OF THE PEOPLE!
GSA #7: A MAN OF THE PEOPLE!
Gerry and Aaron talk about what may be their favorite Achebe novel yet, A Man of the People, originally published in 1966. Also they try to figure out whether or not America had a coup.
Grad School Achebe #6: ARROW OF GOD!
Grad School Achebe #6: ARROW OF GOD!
We are all but faulty microphones in the podcast of an angry God! Grad School Achebe is back with its very-long-awaited discussion of Arrow of God:
Thanks to Aaron Bady for his absolutely heroic efforts to recover the audio from this nearly lost episode and thanks to all of you for your grace and forgiveness on the sound quality. In this one we close out the so-called African Trilogy with Arrow…
Just Another Monday Morning, Just Another Set of Monday Morning Links
Just Another Monday Morning, Just Another Set of Monday Morning Links
Grad School Achebe #5 is up! This one is on “Chike’s School Days,” “The Sacrificial Egg,” and “Akueke,” two stories in which singularly nothing happens (and also “Akueke”). Check it out!Coming to Marquette in 2022: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript! I’ll be teaching a course in relation to this exhibit.Fellowships at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Studies…
