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The Splendid things we planned: A family portrait

Canceled lives: My father, my scandal, and me

Blake Bailey

www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510771215/the-splendid-things-we-planned/

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The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife across the Arts.

Joseph Allen Boone

Columbia University Press 2026

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-melville-effect/9780231222198/

Prof. John Lurz (Tufts University)

The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language

University of Chicago Press

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo246540373.html

Peter E. Gordon

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289459/walter-benjamin/

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Peter E. Gordon
Professor
Episode: Walter Benjamin
Roderick Frazier Nash
Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
Episode: Wilderness and the American mind
Katie Ebner-Landy
Assistant Professor of Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University; former Harvard Society of Fellows junior fellow
Utrecht University
Episode: The character sketch as philosophy. Katie Ebner-Landy.
Susan Stewart
Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Merita at Princeton
Princeton University
Episode: Susan Stewart's Clarendon Lectures: Poetry's Nature
Joshua Landy
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Stanford University
Episode: Marcel Proust with Stanford professor Joshua Landy. Time, memories, literature.
Caleb Smith
Professor of English at Yale University
Yale University
Episode: Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline.
Lawrence Buell
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emeritus at Harvard University
Harvard University
Episode: Henry David Thoreau
Professor Dan Zahavi
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research.
University of Copenhagen
Episode: This concise book introduces phenomenology in its rigor--and its breadth: from philosophical foundation to application in psychology, psychiatry, qualitative research, critical theory, sociology, etc.
Owen Flanagan
Distinguished philosopher and author with experience in addiction
Episode: One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Owen Flanagan, was for many years an addict. He synthesizes in this book both the science and phenomenology of addiction.

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August Baker
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Marcel Proust with Stanford professor Joshua Landy. Time, memories, literature.
Q: Well, this raises, so I guess this raises maybe the biggest question I have about this.
Landy responds by articulating how autobiographical readings of Proust can be complicated; the narration often blurs lines between life and fiction, inviting readers to consider different possible selves the author might be expressing through the narrator.
Walter Benjamin
Q: Is that what this was like for you?
Gordon notes his background in Frankfurt School critique, the pull between rational analysis and metaphor, and how the biography enabled him to explore those tensions more deeply.
Walter Benjamin
Q: And how was that?
Gordon explains the challenges and rewards of writing a biography for a writer as metaphor-rich as Benjamin, highlighting his move toward a more literary, non-linear approach.
Walter Benjamin
Q: So yeah, looking over your previous books, is this your first time you've done a biography?
Gordon confirms that biography is a newer, exploratory genre for him and discusses how it allowed him to stretch his scholarly and literary abilities while trying to honor Benjamin's literary sensibilities.
Henry David Thoreau
Q: But deliberately and front are words with a lot of freight packed into them, and they deserve to be unpacked.
The guest explains that deliberately means more than a modern purpose-driven idea; it involves slowing down, reflecting on context, and attending to experiences as meaningful choices, with front implying a charged confrontation with essential realities.

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