Back to School 4: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
To round out our series on high school novels we're jumping across the pond (aka the Atlantic Ocean) and skipping several decades to find ourselves in early 1990s Massachusetts. Welcome to the world o...
28 Apr 1h 12min
Back to School 3: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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21 Apr 1h 24min
Back to School 2: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Published in 1961, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie tells the story of a charismatic and narcissistic teacher in a girl’s private school in Edinburgh during the 1930s. Miss Brodie, who insists repeatedly...
14 Apr 1h 6min
Back to School 1: Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days (1857) wasn’t the first school fiction novel – that honour goes to a Sarah Fielding, sister of Henry Fielding, who published The Governess, or The Little Female ...
7 Apr 1h 8min
The Secret Life of (Literary) Honeymoons
From the outset, there’s only one kind of honeymoon in classic literature, and it's disastrous. Honeymoons don't become fixed stars in the literary firmament until the early nineteenth century, but th...
31 Mars 1h 8min
Beowulf: Inside the Anglo-Saxon mind
'Although he was a brave and noble warrior, he did not often slay his own friends while drunk'. In this episode, Sophie and Jonty dive deep into the manosphere - aka Anglo-Saxon England - to look at o...
24 Mars 1h 21min
"On Morrison": a conversation with Namwali Serpell
To close out our popular series on the great American novelist Toni Morrison, SLOB brings listeners a wonderful discussion with the novelist and Harvard literature Professor Namwali Serpell. Namwali i...
21 Mars 39min
Toni Morrison 3: Beloved
Beloved, published in 1987, was Toni Morrison’s fifth novel and instantly seen to be an all-time landmark of American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Sophie and Jonty continue thei...
17 Mars 1h 13min
