General Introduction – Why we don’t have a Dr. Who episode – The Facebook page So What Is Realism? – The Oxford Guide weighs in – Realism vs. unbelievability –…

General Introduction – Welcome back! – A hot Minnesota August – Nathan’s premature semester – Looking forward to David’s J-Term – Prolegomena to Rock – Listener feedback – Can we…

The Road Trip That Changed the World By Mark Sayers 285 pp. Moody Publishers. $14.99. Mark Sayers’s The Road Trip That Changed the World is a piece of cultural criticism…

I got my master’s degree in literature at a university in Nebraska, which means that I came of age, intellectually, in an environment in which Willa Cather was seen as…

General Introduction – Displacement – David’s library carrel – Like us on Facebook! – Listener feedback Our Offices – Avoiding them, sharing them, owning them – Time management and privacy…

Home: A Novel By Toni Morrison. 147 pp. Knopf. $24. “The past is never dead,” wrote William Faulkner in his late play Requiem for a Nun. “It’s not even past.”…

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General Introduction – David’s new baby – Last weeks of the semester – Bewildering listener feedback – A plug from Homebrewed Christianity Historicize! – 9/11 – Bush vs. Gore –…

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – Tornados in Kansas – Pronouncing Karamazov – Translations Historicize! – Dostoevsky’s last novel – Biographical information – Connections to previous work The Brothers –…

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – Listener feedback – Thanks to CWC What’s So Outrageous? – Empirical verifiability – The problems with this model – A rabbit trail about rhetoric…

General Introduction – David’s baby – On Philip Cary – Toccoa Falls vs. Emmanuel Autobiography Pre-Augustine – Caesar in the third person – Presenting the self as persona – St.…

General Introduction – Disappointing David Grubbs – Listener feedback – Stroking and broking the ego – (Yeah, my math is off) – A correction – Theologico et Ratio Translations –…

General Introduction – What song is in David’s heart? – Good Monday – When does Spring Break start? – Listener feedback Moses in the Desert – God’s three names –…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Who’s listening? – What’s on the blog? – Formatting a dissertation The Patience of Job – The patience of Job? – Gregory the Great…

General Introduction – Talking weather – Listener feedback The Roots of the Episode – Who studies the Alamo? – Davids Grubbs, Crockett, and Bowie – Stories, not definitions The Courage…