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They say that reading Albert Camus’ The Plague in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic is trendy. Wel
What do you get when you create a society with no fixed gender, a whole hell of a lot of snow, a shi
Pragmatic non-hierarchical structures! Breaking the space time continuum! The sociopolitical and phi
What’s the deal with how choppy this Nabokov book is? Is the character of Pnin actually the target o
Drama! Comedy! Opacity! Turpitude! All are up for grabs in Vladimir Nabokov’s holiday classic, Invit
In this edition of The Substance of Influence Nick chats with Ross Farrar, vocalist of the Northern
In this edition of The Substance of Influence, Nick chats with University of California-Berkeley Eng
In this installment of the Books of Some Substance podcast, Nick is joined by University of Californ
You may be thinking: If I had a dollar for every time I felt like I was just sitting in the waiting
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Have you heard the bad news? God is dead. But in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, you can't keep a go
In this latest installment of the Books of Some Substance podcast San Francisco State University Eng
On this, our first episode of The Substance of Influence episodes, David speaks with fiction writer
In this latest installment of the Books of Some Substance podcast David, Nick, and Eric go for a dis
In this episode of the Books of Some Substance podcast, Stanford English Professor Roanne Kantor sto
If by chance—and what else really controls it all other than chance?—you are into examining the futi
Did you just stop at digging up her body? How crippling is your love? In this episode, San Francisco
That day they discoursed in a cool and oft solitudinous basement. Eric and Nick and Dean Rader of th
A man sits down at a cafe. Pauses. Thinks. Writes a sentence. Pauses. Thinks. Writes another sentenc
Is there anything beneath the iceberg of Ernest Hemingway's status than the Hemingway Lifestyle Br
