Just two hyper-critical English majors talking some pretty big game about The Wheel of Time. Co-hosts Emily and Sally gather around their kitchen table each week to serve you up a full fantasy feast of oft-misremembered summary, hot analysis, scraps of literary theory, and a whole lot of hating Rand.

We’ve all had a discussion or an argument about popular culture. Sometimes it happens on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Maybe it was in a literature, history, philosophy or psychology class in college. Perhaps it was at the local comic book shop. Or maybe it was at a bar and you ended up stabbing someone with a bottle or bludgeoning them with a pool cue. All of these discussions are exactly the same. The tenured professor at an academic conference deconstructing Batman through a Derrida lens i ...

READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. (Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)

The Literary Round Table is the only place online where readers get to interact with their favorite fiction or non-fiction authors and experts in a variety of fields. We bring your favorite authors to the Literary Round Table for interesting, fun and free-wheeling discussions on a variety of topics, and you have the opportunity to interact with them by asking questions or commenting via Twitter or email! You can listen to the discussion at your convenience by going to one of several websites ...

Where Factual and Fictional Engage In Fisticuffs! Have you ever wondered who would win a fight between the US Presidents? Have you ever shuddered at the possibilities of superheroes, movie characters, and literary icons coming to blows? Want to learn history in the most action movie way possible? Let the battle begin!

Sixty-three essays on a variety of topics as wide apart as Family Life in America, Opera Synopses, Bigamy, International Finance and many more, Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley strangely enough does not touch upon romance at all! However, these delightful notes provide hours of browsing pleasure for young and old readers alike. Robert Benchley was a well-known humorist and newspaper columnist, radio and television presenter, actor, scriptwriter and broadcaster. He is also credited with c ...