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Poet, publicist, and reading series host Carrie Olivia Adams joins us to talk about rereading,  problematic literature, and bringing people together.

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

Episode artwork: Marcel Proust, by Otto Wegener, 1895 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Bashō

Aase Berg                               
Dark Matter

Joanna Biggs                          
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Black Ocean

Jacques Bouveresse             
Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious

Joseph Clayton Mills

Józef Czapski                        
Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Lydia Davis

Toi Derricotte                          
The Undertaker's Daughter

Lucy Ellmann                          
Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann                          
Things Are Against Us

William Faulkner

Nikky Finney

Sigmund Freud

Martin Heidegger                    
Poetry, Language, Thought

Susan Howe

Kobayashi Issa

June Jordan

James Joyce                             
Ulysses

Hubert McAlexander

Elsa Morante

Kelly Norman Ellis

Marjorie Perloff      
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

The Plagiarists

Marcel Proust                            
In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust                            
The Prisoner

Marcel Proust                            
Swann's Way

Mary Ruefle                               
Madness, Rack, and Honey

Janaka Stucky

Frank X. Walker

Anna Wiener                              
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Ludwig Wittgenstein                
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

Mary Wollstonecraft                 
The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

Andrew Zawacki