Reading the Room
Felice Basbøll, Ella DornWhere we read books and use them to analyse our cultural predicament
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#11 Making Sex: can frogs wear trousers?!
In which Felice and Ella read Thomas Walter Laqueur’s Making Sex and talk about biology, postmodernity, figure skating, and whether trousers are offputting to frogs.
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#10: Gore Vidal against the literary establishment
In which we discuss three bitchy essays by Gore Vidal on literary culture: The Thinking Man’s Novel (1980), American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction (1976) and The Ashes of Hollywood (1973). We talk about genre vs literary fiction, mass educ...
#9: Inventing the Middle Ages ft. Sam Rubinstein
In which Felice and Ella chat to about Norman Cantor’s philological sex epic Inventing the Middle Ages. Featuring discussion of good and bad biography, monastic sadomasochism, gossip, and the medieval times, as well as some confusion about...
#8 Right Wing Women - Dworkin goes boy crazy
In which we read Andrea Dworkin’s 1983 classic Right Wing Women - now reissued with an introduction by Moira Donegan - and discuss the contradictions in right-wing gender discourse, man-hating antifeminists, essentialism, radfems, tradwive...
#7 The Neverending Empire: why won't Rome go away? (ft. Finn McRedmond)
In which Ella, Felice and guest star Finn McRedmond discuss Aldo Cazzullo’s sprawling study of Rome, The Neverending Empire, the persistence of the Roman Empire in the public imagination, all-purpose analogies, feminist rewritings, and bad...
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History student at Trinity College Dublin and project assistant at Living Freedom. X: @fbasboll
New Statesman columnist, novelist in progress, daughter of the 1993 Modern Review Fax War \ud83d\udcae elladorn.net / @elladorn_ / fairylandxo.neocities.org
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