#7: Saving Shakespeare
In this first episode of season 2 of Annotated, the story of how Shakespeare was saved for posterity by two of his friends and a cagey publi...
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An audio documentary series about books, reading, and language.
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#6: Love, Punctuation, and the Oxford Comma
In this episode, an investigation of the Oxford comma that starts, improbably, with a love story. This episode is sponsored by: The Lost Cit...
#5: The 17-Year-Old Who Invented Science Fiction
In this episode, the story of how a 17-year-old named Mary Godwin came to write Frankenstein and in doing so write the first great work of s...
#4: The United States V. One Book Called "Ulysses"
In this episode, the story of how an unlikely cast of characters brought James Joyce's Ulysses to America, got it legalized, and changed how...
#3: The World's Most Glamorous Librarian
In this episode: the life of Belle da Costa Greene, the most glamorous and influential librarian in early 20th Century America, who kept a l...
#2: How Did Independent Bookstores Avoid Going Extinct?
In this episode, we look at the remarkable turnaround in independent bookstores in the U.S. After thousands closed from 1995 to 2008, over t...
#1: Is It 1984 Yet?
In this inaugural episode, we consider the resurgence of interest in George Orwell's 1984 , and the story of how 1984 came to be in the firs...
Annotated Ep. #0: Introducing Annotated
This is a teaser/preview of the first episode of Annotated, Book Riot's new audio documentary series about books, reading, and language. Epi...