We're talking to environmental studies professor and author Liam Heneghan, who joins us to talk about sustained reading, the politics of biography, Samuel Beckett, and more!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Samuel Beckett [cropped]. Public domain image by Roger Pic courtesy Bibliothèque national de France and Wikimedia Commons.
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Anaximander
Samuel Beckett
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable: A Trilogy
Deirdre Blair
Samuel Beckett: A Biography
Patricia Claus
"The Miletian School: Ancient Greece's Pioneers of Philosophy"
Hart Crane
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Vegetable Mould and Worms
René Descartes
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
Alan Garner
The Owl Service
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Jack Halberstam
The Queer Art of Failure
Thomas Hardy
Václav Havel
Liam Heneghan
Through Pleated Light: Confessions and Translations
David Hume
James Joyce
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Ulysses
Patrick Joyce
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
John Locke
London Review of Books
Lucretius
On the Nature of the Universe
Mabinogion
Louis MacNeice
Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
David Marr
Patrick White: A Life
Ottessa Moshfegh
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
New York Review of Books
Flannery O'Connor
"Good Country People"
Presocratics
Roger Scruton
Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story
Socrates
Wallace Stevens
"The Three Little Pigs"
Colm Tóibín
"Seagulls as Playmates"
Helen Vendler
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry
Patrick White
Riders in the Chariot
Patrick White
Voss
