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3 Old and New Media with Lisa Gitelman
In this episode, John and Elizabeth speak with Lisa Gitelman, a professor in the departments of English and Media, Culture and Communications at New York University. They discuss Walter Benjamin’s “The...
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4 In Focus: An Interview with Madeline Miller about Circe (JP, GT)
On June 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast appeared in our partner publication, Public Books. In this episode, John and Gina Turrigiano speak with Madeline Miller, author of the critically...
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5 The Comic Novel with Stephen McCauley
On this episode of Recall This Book, John talks to Stephen McCauley, a novelist and Professor of the Practice of English and Co-director of Creative Writing at Brandeis. Nobody knows more about the...
View ArticleUpcoming Episodes…and More
Eagle-eyed fans of Recall This Book will have noticed an implicit pattern: episodes dropped each Wednesday (err, now Thursday), with upcoming episodes announced with the closing credits. However, that...
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Our Drugs, Our Stories, Ourselves
Public Books recently ran an article called “Our Drugs, Ourselves” by Susan Zieger, that touches on several of the issues that John, Elizabeth, and Gina discussed in our second episode about addiction....
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6 Writing Then and Now: Martin Puchner (The Written World)
From its origins in clay tablets to its future on digital tablets, Martin Puchner has thought about writing in all its forms. In this episode, John and Elizabeth talk to Martin, the Byron and Anita...
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Minimalism’s Untidy Travels
In Episode 1 of Recall this Book, sculptor and Brandeis professor Tory Fair, John and I discussed minimalism. We were just starting out, and I felt a little out of my depth, not only with podcasting...
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7 In Focus: Samuel Delany in conversation with John Plotz (Nevèrÿon, Triton,...
On August 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast interview appeared in our partner publication, Public Books. Fresh on the heels of our conversation with Madeline Miller, author of Circe, John...
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8 Distraction, a Conversation (Marina Van Zuylen and John Plotz at Harvard’s...
We frequently worry that we live in a “distracted age.” But perhaps the human condition is always to live “almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite another” (Ford Madox Ford, “On...
View ArticleSpring Schedule and our new partnership with Literature Lab
When Recall This Book started back in January, we modestly thought we might manage one episode per month.Instead, we bolted from the gate fast: eight episodes in our first two-and-a-half months. That...
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9 Women in Political Power; with Manduhai Buyandelger
Evita, Thatcher and HRC walk into a glass ceiling…In this episode, John and Elizabeth are joined by MIT anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger to discuss women in political power in Argentina, Mongolia,...
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10x Bonus! “Exit Zero” and Life Writing
Helena DeBres had so many brilliant insights about the ethics and the future of life writing that the final third of our discussion overflowed the bounds of our ordinary format. So we present that...
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10 Life, Writing, and Life Writing with Helena DeBres
Bonus! Available only on our website, Episode 10X includes a brief RTB discussion about Exit Zero, a stunning “auto-ethnography” that raises fascinating questions about what it means when people...
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11 Xenophobia and Ethno-Nationalism, 1973 to today (Quinn Slobodian)
What’s the relationship between immigration, globalization and demographics? What do a badly characterized, racist novel and an imaginatively metaphoric biology article from the 1970s have to do with...
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12 RTB Presents “The Electro–Library” (with Jared Green)
In this warm summer episode, Elizabeth and John present a marvelous podcast, The Electro-Library, and they speak with one of its hosts and founders, Jared Green. Elizabeth, Jared and John play snippets...
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13 Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson, author of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, a book that both tells a part of the history of Polynesia, and tells how histories of...
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14c 刘慈欣访谈中文版 Cixin Liu with Pu Wang (in Chinese)
[This is the original Chinese interview with Cixin Liu; to hear the English translation, go to Episode 14] 今年5月18日，前来Brandeis大学接受荣誉博士学位的科幻小说家刘慈欣接受了John...
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14 In Focus: Cixin Liu (in English, with Pu Wang, JP)
In this episode, John and Brandeis professor Pu Wang talk with the bestselling science fiction author Cixin Liu. Mr. Liu is the author of The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End, and...
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14x Afterthoughts about the Cixin Liu interview (Pu Wang and John)
In May, John and Pu interviewed SF superstar Cixin Liu (you will want to listen to that episode before this one). In August they entered the studio again to work on the final edits for that interview...
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