American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
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H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 16: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1)
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second of two posthumously published novels by H. P. Lovecraft, THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD also happens to be my favorite Lovecraft story. Th...
Episode 443: HenryJames: Watch and Ward (1)
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new series and a new novel: Henry James' WATCH AND WARD. While it is not a good novel and can be easily forgotten we can at least introduce ourselve...
Episode 442: Sinclair Lewis: Dodsworth (3)
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The final to my review of DODSWORTH by Sinclair Lewis and the final of my series on Lewis's mid-1920s works. While DODSWORTH is not my favorite, I thi...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 15: The History of the Necronomicon, Ibid., and The Descendents
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A trio of works by Lovecraft are examined in this episode. Two of them explore the mythology of the Necronomicon and the other deals with footnotes.
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club:Series 5: Episode 14: Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Conclusion)
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My final thoughts on Lovecraft's DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH appear in this episode. In this part of the story we see the battle between the Men fro...
Episode 441: Sinclair Lewis: Dodsworth (2)
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of DODSWORTH by Sinclair Lewis has us explore a wealthy expat couple in Europe as their marriage begins to fray as the European ...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 13: Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (3)
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the third part of my review of DREAMQUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH we explore the realm of the ghouls and other dark places, while learning more about the...
Episode 440: Sinclair Lewis: Dodsworth (1)
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of my review of DODSWORTH by Sinclair Lewis. My least favorite of these novels by Lewis, it centers on a rich American business man who retir...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 12: Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath (2)
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH by Lovecraft. My interest in this series of episodes is to explore how the themes of Lovecraft...
Episode 439: Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry (4)
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The four and final part of my review of ELMER GANTRY by Sinclair Lewis. A final crisis emerging from his girl-crazy ways, leads Elmer Gantry to triump...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 11: Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath, Part 1
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 438: Sinclair Lewis:: Elmer Gantry (3)
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of my review of ELMER GANTRY by Sinclair Lewis covers Gantry's rise in the aftermath of the death of Sharon Falconer. He finds himself recr...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 10: Pickman's Model
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A favorite of Lovecraft fans, "Pickman's Model", ties directly to DREAM-QUEST and was written around time, but is a great tale in which we see Lovecra...
Episode 437: Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry (2)
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my review of ELMER GANTRY by Sinclair Lewis we follow Gantry as he got pushed out of his ministry due to drunkenness, but finds his way...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 9: Strange High House in the Mist
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My review of Lovecraft's "Strange High House in the Mist" allows us to return to Kingsport in preparation for our upcoming "Dream Quest".
Episode 436:Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry (1)
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elmer Gantry is a student at a religious university who far from lives the religious life, but find himself on the career path of a Baptist preacher. ...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 8: The Silver Key
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The "Silver Key" is Lovecraft's greatest Randolph Carter story with an enduring theme of childhood saving us from the banality of modern life. Carter'...
Episode 435:Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith (Part 5)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The final of my review of ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis. It ends on a rather high note where science triumphs over the distractions of American capital...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 7: The Call of Cthulhu (2)
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second half of my review of THE CALL OF CTHULHU I explore some of the most important passages in all of Lovecraft's writings: the interview wit...
Episode 434: Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith (4)
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part four of ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis explores Martin Arrowsmith's career as it moves into hard science, war, and eventually a devastating plague ...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 6: The Call of Cthulhu, Part 1
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first of two episodes in which I look at the famous story by H. P. Lovecraft, THE CALL OF CTHULHU. Great story due to its nested narrative and glo...
Episode 433: Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith (3)
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Arrowsmith, bored with being a small-town doctor moves into the field of public health, finding the politics of science even worse than the per...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode5: In the Vault
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"In the Vault" seems a bit out of place in this period of Lovecraft's career, but it is a bit of fun and plesantly gory. The TV show TALES FROM THE CR...
Episode 432: Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith (2)
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis. In this episode we follow Martin Arrowsmith as he begins his career as a small-town doctor.
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 4: Cool Air
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Cool Air" by H. P. Lovecraft is a lovely science-fiction horror story set in New York, the last of Lovecraft's stories set in New York after "Red Hoo...
Episode 431:Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith (1)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of my five-part review of ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis. This novel explores the culture of professional medicine in early 20th century Americ...
H.P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 3: HE
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I examine Lovecraft's short story "He", the second in a "trilogy" of New York stories. This one is the most meta and personal and cer...
Episode 430: Aldo Leopold: Journals.
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this short episode, I finish my look at Aldo Leopold's writings with his journals. I know I said I would look at his letters, but I decided to move...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 2: The Horror at Red Hook (2)
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of THE HORROR AT RED HOOK by H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring this story due to his racism, compartmentalizing his views on immigrants,...
Episode 429: Aldo Leopold: Writings 1938-1948
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The third and final episode looking at Aldo Leopold's professional and private ecology writings. These cover the period of the Second World War and Le...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 5: Episode 1: The Horror At Red Hook (Part 1)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first half of my review of THE HORROR AT RED HOOK, by H. P. Lovecraft. This is a story that pulls together most of the threads from his earliest h...
Episode 438: Aldo Leopold: Writings 1933-1937
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A look at some more of Aldo Leopold's professional and private writings on ecology from the period when he began his work in Wisconsin, coinciding wit...
Episode 427: Aldo Leopold: Writings 1917-1933
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Having finished A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC, we will now go back to look at Aldo Leopold's writings from the start of his career in 1917 until 1933, when he...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 12: Poems, Later 1920s
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the H. P. Lovecraft Book Club I look at a bunch of horror poems Lovecraft wrote in the later 1920s.
Episode 426: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac (Part 2)
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode completes my review of A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC by Aldo Leopold. The second part of the book of essays explores the human impact on ecology ...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 11: Supernatural Horror in Literature (2)
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second part of my review of "Supernatural Horror in Literature" looks at the bulk of the text. Most of the essay is surveys of the major works in ...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 10: Supernatural Horror in Literature
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the H. P. Lovecraft Book Club I examine "Supernatural Horror in Literature", Lovecraft's brilliant survey of horror writing. I focu...
Episode 425: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac, Part 1
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode one of my new series on the writings of Aldo Leopold. To begin we will explore his masterpiece A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC. It remains one of the gr...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 9: Letters January 1929 to June 1929
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The end of this series on H. P. Lovecraft's letters. This set is a doozy with some monster letters to Frank B. Long, Wilfred Talman, and Woodburn Pres...
Episode 424: James Agee: Shorter Fiction
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode on James Agee, I look at his shorter fiction, including "Morning Watch" and "Death in the Desert". They are all pretty excellent...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 8: Letters January 1928-December 1928
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lovecraft's letters in 1928 ranged in topics from literature to modernism to race and class. I review some of these letters as I continue to work my w...
Episode 423: James Agee:Death in the Family (2)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I finish up my look at James Agee's novel A DEATH IN A FAMILY. I find the novel a bit more interesting in the second half as Agee expl...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 7: Letters October 1927-February 1928
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The highlight of the H. P. Lovecraft letters from the winter of 1927-28 is Lovecraft's account of a story-length Roman dream. He mediates quite a lot ...
Episode 422:James Agee: Death in the Family (1)
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first part of my review of James Agee's DEATH IN THE FAMILY. This posthumously published novel won the Pulitzer Prize. I found it to be of interes...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 6: Letters June 1927-October 1927
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The H. P. Lovecraft letters I look at in this episode cover much of the second half of 1927. There is not much in the way of philosophy, but professio...
Episode 421: James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Conclusion)
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The episode in which I try to make some final sense of James Agee's LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. I am pretty sure I am only scratching the surface.
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 5: Letters February 1927-June 1927
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let's look at some more of H. P. Lovecraft's letters. In this episode I explore the ones he wrote in 1927. There are a few good and important letters ...
Episode 420: James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (3)
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of my review of LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by James Agee. In this part of the book, Agee continues his report on the material conditions ...
H.P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 4: Letters October 1926-February 1927
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The winter of 1926-27 Lovecraft wrote several interesting letters on his aesthetic and literary tastes and he worked on THE DREAMQUEST OF UNKNOWN KADA...
Episode 419: Jame Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (2)
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by James Agee we get a look at the material conditions of life for our three sharecropper families, with spe...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 3: Letters May 1926-October 1926
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back in Providence, Lovecraft felt more at peace, but his New York experience shaped how he even saw Providence as he began to explore it again. He sa...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 4: Episode 2: Letters November 1925-May 1926
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I look at more of H. P. Lovecraft's letters. These cover his final months in New York and his return to Providence. But this New York ...
Episode 418: James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1)
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of my review of the frustrating, fascinating, and beautiful work LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. I still do not know fully what to think of thi...
Episode 417:James Agee: Some Assorted Journalism
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you are interested here are some thoughts on a few pieces of James Agee's assorted journalism for FORTUNE and TIME, including some book reviews. Th...
Episode 416: James Agee: Night of the Hunter: Screenplay and Film
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in this podcast, I am looking at a screenplay. This one was by James Agee based on the book NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, about a Bluebeard ...
H. P. Lovecraft BookClub: Series 4: Episode 1: Letters Feburary to October 1925
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An episode where I try to look at a bunch of H. P. Lovecraft's letters from his time in New York.
The Harry Houdini Book Club: Episode 1: Under the Pyramids
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I look at a short story by Harry Houdini (ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft) called "Under the Pyramids". It is a beautiful story of t...
Episode415: James Agee: Agee on Film (5)
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we finish up with Agee's film reviews for TIME. Overall, I think they are worth reading in the context of re-exploring some of the fil...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 27: The Sonia Greene revisions
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lovecraft revised a couple of interesting stories by Sonia Greene, his future wife. While we can identify a few Lovecraftian themes Sonia Greene bring...
Episode414:James Agee: Agee on Film (4)
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I finish looking at Agee's NATION reviews and then jump into some he wrote for TIME. In 1948 Agee stopped writing film reviews for bot...
H. P. Lovecraft BookClub:Series 3: Episode 26: The Green Meadow, The Crawling Chaos, and Poetry and the Gods
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I look at three of Lovecraft's revisions with Winifred Jackson and Anna Helen Crofts ("The Green Meadow", "The Crawling Chaos", and "P...
Episode 413: James Agee: Agee on Film (3)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of my review of James Agee's film reviews get us through some more of THE NATION reviews, including his review of MONSIEUR VERDOUX, the Cha...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 25: The Shunned House
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, "The Shunned House" is a study in local history and mythology. Some of his best writing legacy of family...
Episode 412: James Agee: Agee on Film (2)
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More of James Agee's reviews from THE NATION, mostly of films from 1944 and 1945.
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 24: The Festival
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another dive into family history, occult traditions, and the sea in "The Festival" by H.P. Lovecraft, but maybe most interesting about this story is t...
Episode 411: James Agee: Film Writing: "The Golden Age of Comedy" and "The Nation" Reviews
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I start my look at the works of James Agee. Before jumping into his collaboration with Walker Evans, let's check out his film writings...
Episode 409-410: John Kenneth Galbraith: The New Industrial State (second half)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two episodes packed into one as I finish up looking at THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE by John Kenneth Galbraith. Next up James Agee's journalism and film re...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 23: The Rats in the Wall
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Rats in the Wall" is a story by H. P. Lovecraft about a trans-Atlantic family and its history (kind of like "The Lurking Fear" in a way). It also...
H.P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 22: The Lurking Fear
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite Lovecraft stories, "The Lurking Fear" explores heredity, immigration, American history, and race all in the form of an interesting ...
Episode 408:John Kenneth Galbraith: Thew New Industrial State (2)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE by John Kenneth Galbraith. Here he digs deep into the workings of the "technostructure" and makes an...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 21: The Hound
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another interesting story by H. P. Lovecraft, "The Hound" is about art and its impact on searchers who become grave-robbers to satisfy their curiosity...
Episode 407:John Kenneth Galbraith: The New Industrial State (1)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. economy is planned. But don't take my word for it. John Kenneth Galbraith laid it all out in THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE. Here are my thoughts o...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 20: The Unnamable
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The "Unnamable" is a great little horror story that includes a philosophical discussion about the nature of terror. A bit on the known unknowns of com...
Episode 406:John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society (2)
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith. This part of the book explores the consequences of affluence and present Galb...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 19: Azathoth and What the Moon Brings
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I look at a story fragment ("Azathoth") and very short complete story ("What the Moon Brings"). Both are experiments in cosmic horror...
Episode 405: John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society (1)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of my review of THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith. This book remains relevant in our conversations about post-scarcity and the l...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 18: Herbert West: Reanimator (2)
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of my review of Herbert West: Reanimator, covering parts 4-6.
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 18: Herbert West: Renaimator (1)
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Re-uploaded. Part one of my review and analysis of HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR by H. P. Lovecraft. One of my favorite Lovecraft stories. Watch as I becom...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 17: Hypnos
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short tale by H. P. Lovecraft, "Hypnos" involved an unreliable narrator exploring his dreams with an unknown associate. A nice contrast to some of t...
Episode 404: John Kenneth Galbraith: The Great Crash (2)
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So the second half of Galbraith's book called THE GREAT CRASH is about the impact of the 1929 crash on American life. Overall a good survey of the c...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 16: The Music of Erich Zann
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A great short story by H. P. Lovecraft, "The Music of Erich Zann" is one of his first to take seriously the power of art and the tendency of art in th...
Episode 403: John Kenneth Galbraith: The Great Crash (1)
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote this very interesting book about a famous airplane disaster. Here are my thoughts on the first half of this...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 15: The Other Gods
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short story by H. P. Lovecraft, "The Other Gods" explores humanity's hubris at thinking they can understand the universe. These Other Gods will be e...
Episode 402: John Kenneth Galbraith: American Capitalism (2)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my review of AMERICAN CAPITALISM by John Kenneth Galbraith. In the second half of this slim book we get into specific examples of counterv...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 14: The Outsider
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Outsider" is a well-known tale by H. P. Lovecraft, probably due to its psychological dimension. One of his best works of short fiction, to be sur...
Episode 401: John Kenneth Galbraith: American Capitalism, Part 1
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins a new series looking at the works of John Kenneth Galbraith. We begin with AMERICAN CAPITALISM, a book exploring the concept of "c...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 13: The Moon-Bog
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Moon-Bog" by Lovecraft may reminds us of "The Rats in the Wall' with its European setting and castle restoration subplot, but the story has its u...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 12: The Quest of Iranon
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Quest of Iranon" is a dreamlands story with (possibly) a dreamer from within the dreamlands themselves. It also works as a nice allegory for mode...
Episode 400: Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (6)
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No Lovecraft this Wednesday. Instead I will put an end to this Parkman series with the finale of MONTCALM AND WOLFE. Lots to perhaps say in summation ...
Episode 399: Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (5)
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part 5 of my review of MONTCALM AND WOLFE by Francis Parkman. In this episode we explore the invasion of Canada and the emergence of Wolfe as a comman...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 11: The Nameless City
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In "The Nameless City" we see Lovecraft sending an explorer into an ancient, pre-human city. While these themes would be explore in more depth in AT T...
Episode 398: Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (4)
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this fourth part of my review of MONTCALM AND WOLFE by Francis Parkman, we look at some major battled of the French and Indian War included the sie...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 10: The Picture in the House
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite Lovecraft stories, "The Picture in the House" is about the sea, the horrors of Atlantic history, and the legacy of ancient beliefs ...
Episode 397: Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (3)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of my review of MONTCALM AND WOLFE by Francis Parkman. In this section we witness campaigning in the frontier and the Hudson Valley, the ri...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 9: Nyarlathotep
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A story based on one of Lovecraft's dreams, "Nyarlathotep" provides some interesting ideas on modernity, the threat of ancient traditions, and race wh...
Episode 396: Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (2)
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two years before the Seven Years War broke out in Europe, Americans were once against fighting each other in the frontier regions between the British ...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 8: Ex Oblivione
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Ex Oblivione" by H. P. Lovecraft is a dreamer story about someone trying to escape this world into the realm of dreams, even beyond that to non-exist...
Episode 395: Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (1)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
FFS, another French and Indian war. Well, in any case we are getting another one as we jump into Francis Parkman's final volume in his massive history...
H. P. Lovecraft Book Club: Series 3: Episode 7: From Beyond
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is my review of "From Beyond" by H. P. Lovecraft, a story about a scientist trying to find what lies beyond our senses. Made into a good ...
Episode 394: Francis Parkman: A Half-Century of Conflict (4)
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final parts of Francis Parkman's A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT we explore the failed peace ending King George's War, ongoing struggles for Acadia,...