#6: Love, Punctuation, and the Oxford Comma

Annotated by Book Riot

Sep 14, 201722:54Arts

In this episode, an investigation of the Oxford comma that starts, improbably, with a love story. This episode is sponsored by: The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Devastation Road by Jason Hewitt You can...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Annotated.

#7: Saving Shakespeare

Mar 19, 2018 - 19:59

In this first episode of season 2 of Annotated, the story of how Shakespeare was saved for posterity by t...

#5: The 17-Year-Old Who Invented Science Fiction

Aug 24, 2017 - 20:35

In this episode, the story of how a 17-year-old named Mary Godwin came to write Frankenstein and in doing...

#4: The United States V. One Book Called "Ulysses"

Aug 10, 2017 - 20:48

In this episode, the story of how an unlikely cast of characters brought James Joyce's Ulysses to America...

#3: The World's Most Glamorous Librarian

Jul 27, 2017 - 23:25

In this episode: the life of Belle da Costa Greene, the most glamorous and influential librarian in early...

#2: How Did Independent Bookstores Avoid Going Extinct?

Jul 13, 2017 - 20:00

In this episode, we look at the remarkable turnaround in independent bookstores in the U.S. After thousan...

#1: Is It 1984 Yet?

Jun 29, 2017 - 24:57

In this inaugural episode, we consider the resurgence of interest in George Orwell's 1984 , and the story...

Annotated Ep. #0: Introducing Annotated

Jun 21, 2017 - 04:00

This is a teaser/preview of the first episode of Annotated, Book Riot's new audio documentary series abou...