Listening to Literature

Fri. 12:06 pm EDT- This week, Leigh and P.T. chat with Jennifer Hogenboom, the Lower School Media and Technology Specialist for Savannah Country Day School. 07/19/2019

In P.T.’s day, school libraries were often dark...

Fri. 12:06 pm ET-Most countries have had writers who spoke eloquently and powerfully about their homeland, but South Africa has had many of them. In the past…..07/12/2019

In the past Alan Paton, Nelson Mandela, Nadine...

Fri. 12:06 pm ET- The third (and last for awhile) installment of songs and the poems that inspired them. This week, Leigh Rich and P. T. Bridgeport look at works from Pablo Neruda, Kurt Vonnegut, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Join Leigh and P.T. for poetry and music, this week on Listening To Literature 2. 07/05/2019

Fri. 12:06 pm ET- This week, Leigh and P.T. continue their exploration of the use of poetry in music and the stories behind the poetry. 06/28/2019

Kipling, T.S. Eliot, and Edna St. Vincent Millay,...

Fri. 12:06Orpheus was a poet and a musician – he charmed animals with his playing and people with his poetry, though he had less success with Maenads. Since his times, musicians have frequently taken their texts from poetry and literature. This week, Leigh and PT will play some selections and discuss their use. This Friday, at 12:06 pm. Join us. 06/21/2019

Fri. 12:06 pm ET – Join Leigh and P.T. for the voices of the roaring Twenties, on Part 2 of The Algonquin Round Table discussion. 06/07/2019

Last week, Leigh and P.T. went in depth...

Fri. 12:06 pm ET-In June 1919, a few of New York’s literati met at the Algonquin Hotel at lunchtime to welcome Alexander Woollcott back from the war. It was so much fun, they met again the day after, and the day after that. They kept it up for over ten years, until many of the group left the city. This was the Algonquin Round Table. This week, Leigh and P.T. explore the wit and works of the Round Table. Join us at 12:06 this Friday for a discussion of the group that defined humor and sophistication for post war New York. 05/31/2019

In June 1919, a few of New York’s...

Fri. 12:06 ET- This is Memorial Day weekend, and literature is rich with observations – in novels, poetry, and memoirs. Memorial Day originated as the result of the Civil War, and each conflict since has come with new observations about the act of war and the fallen. Join Leigh Rich and P. T. Bridgeport as they attempt to gather meaning from the literature of the men who survived – and the men who fell. 05/24/2019

This is Memorial Day weekend, and literature is...

Fri. 12:06 pm ET-Poet, Artist, Bookseller – Lawrence Ferlinghetti celebrated his centennial in March. He did it in an unexpected way – publishing his first novel, called Little Boy. This week, Leigh Rick and P. T. Bridgeport examine the life and works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He was a poet (though he denied being a Beat poet) a bookseller (though he was best known as a foe of censorship) and now a novelist (though the novel has little plot and seems like a thinly veiled autobiography). Both Ferlinghetti and his bookstore, City Lights, survive to this day. 05/17/2019

Poet, Artist, Bookseller – Lawrence Ferlinghetti celebrated his...

Fri. 12:06 pm ET-There is an immense body of literature around graduates. Some of it is fiction, like “Goodbye Columbus” or “The Graduate”. There are lists of books that people want graduates to read, and “Oh The Places You’ll Go”, by Doctor Seuss is on almost all of them (and those fiction books are on none of them). There are self-help books about how to get through this, and there tons of articles that practically demand that you become depressed about graduating. This week, Leigh Rich and P.T. Bridgeport will examine books for and about graduates, and pick a few that they think might actually be meaningful. Tune in this week on Friday at 12:06 pm, as Leigh and P.T. wonder if the right answer is still “plastics”.

There is an immense body of literature around...