Delmore Schwartz: "Ringing Your Fate"
This episode explores the poetry and prose of Delmore Schwartz, a poet who found the entire course of his life reshaped by the colossal forc...
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Sad Men Podcast
Stories of how writers survived the Great Depression.
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May Swenson: "Work and Sleep and Drop Dead"
This episode explores the Great Depression writings of the great poet, May Swenson. We explore Swenson's work for the Federal Writers Projec...
James Agee: "If it hurts you, be glad of it."
This episode explores LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, a Depression-era book by the great James Agee. Giller Prize-winning author Johanna Skibs...
Arch Oboler: "That Thing! It's True!"
This is a podcast created by Jason Boog, telling the stories of how a generation of men and women writers survived the Great Depression. Our...