The Bright Podcast

The Bright Podcast


Listening to America, Season 10: “I knew it would be very physical. What I wasn’t really ready for was the psychological stress.”

May 05, 2023

Phillip, Class of 2024, interviews his grandfather, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, while analyzing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues, and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” This episode is brought to you by Listening to America, a series developed by Mr. Miley’s American Literature students.