Alie Ward (host)
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You get it bound.
You have the work that you've been working on for several years in a volume.
And there it is.
Yes.
Yeah.
And have you always been a big reader?
I imagine like what was your childhood like?
Were you just curled up in the most adorable reading nook with like a stack of library books?
When did you start to realize that literature would be the focus of your career?
Was there a point where you said, oh, I can continue to study this and teach this?
Or were you like, I just don't want to put books down and I'm going to keep going as far as I can take this?
What a dream.
Was there a particular book that sort of really ignited your curiosity about how smell is portrayed?
Was there one in particular where you
kept noticing it as a theme or?
Heads up, this isn't much of a spoiler.
But in the 1955 book Lolita, this is a classic work of fiction.
It involves a man obsessed with young girls who he calls nymphettes.
And he is enraptured with a 12-year-old named Dolores, nicknamed Dolly or Lolita.
And he becomes her stepfather.