Listening to Literature

Fri. 12:06 pm – You may have first encountered E. B. White when you were a child, through his books Stuart Little or Charlotte’s Web. a mIn school, you may have run into The Elements of Style, a book on usage he co-authored. 11/06/2020.

But E. B. White was a master essayist...

Fri. 12:06 – Jonathan Swift’s Essay on Conversation was written in the 18th Century, but his observations on conversations are as acute on those that happen today. 10/29/2020.

What makes a “good” conversation – what is...

Fri. 12:06 – Leopold’s Ice Cream is one of the most iconic businesses in Savannah. How did that happen? Writer Melanie Simon knows, and she’s written a book about it. 10/23/2020.

Melanie joins Leigh and P. T. this week...

Fri. 12:06 – Edith Wharton lived at the pinnacle of American society in her time, and found it suffocating, purposeless, and uninteresting. 10/16/2020.

She became an expatriate and a keen observer...

Fri. 12:06 pm – In 1808, Mary Randolph produced a classic Virginia cookbook, and this year, Christopher E. and his mother, Sue Hendricks updated it for people who have abandoned cooking in the hearth. 10/09/2020.

But the story behind the cookbook is fascinating,...

Fri. 12:06 – Leigh and P. T. explore another of Henry James’s classic short stories, The Turn of the Screw, and are again joined by Dr. Carol Andrews, Professor Emerita of English at Georgia Southern – Armstrong. 10/02/2020.

There are many interpretations of this story –...

Fri. 12:06 – Henry James’s novella Daisy Miller has produced a walking skirt, a radio series, a motion picture, and a rap tune. 09/25/2020.

Henry James’s novella Daisy Miller has produced a...

Fri. 12:06 pm – Leigh and P.T. examine more of Guy De Maupassant’s short stories. They’ll read one of his best-known, The Necklace. 09/18/2020.

The plot has informed two stories by Somerset...

Fri. 12:06 -Guy De Maupassant is the grandmaster of the short story and a trenchant observer of humanity. This week, Leigh and P.T. review his masterpiece, Boule de Souf, and other short pieces. Join us.

His stories, many set during the Franco-Prussian War,...

Fri. 12:06 – “The Dream of an Hour” (later called “The Story of an Hour”) was published in Vogue in 1894. new feature on Listening to Literature, called “In Their Own Words,” 09/04/2020.

Kate Chopin — one of the trailblazers of...