Welcome back to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits flow all year long!
For this better-late-than-never eighth Lit for Christmas party, Amanda and Marty get a little buzzed on Orange Creamsicles while talking about Primo Levi's essay "Last Christmas of the War" in honor of Yom Kippur. It's all about twerking Bigfoots, oracles, and finding Christmas spirit in the darkest of times.
BONUS POINTS: Count how many times the word "slutty" appears in this episode!
RECIPE FOR ORANGE CREAMSICLE:
Ingredients:
Ice
4 oz. orange juice
2 oz. vanilla infused vodka
Directions:
NOTE: Another option is to blend the ingredients with ice to make a slushy-type drink.
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, alsoon Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
Other music in the episode:
"Last Christmas." Wham!. CBS Records, December 1984.
This month's Christmas lit:
Levi, Primo. Trans. Ruth Feldman. "Last Christmas of the War." Moments of Reprieve. Penguin Books, 1985.
