Waywords Studio Full Slate

Waywords Studio Full Slate


Latest Episodes

Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting
March 28, 2025

Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.

Dorian Gray and Difficult Conversations
March 21, 2025

Where do we find people to talk to about our reading? And what do we say when we find them?

Reading and Living in Uncertainty
March 14, 2025

What do we mean by uncertainty in reading? And why do we have to look for it?

What I Carry With Me
March 07, 2025

What questions do we carry with us as we leave Marvell's famous poem?

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
February 28, 2025

Who is the speaker in this poem? Who the audience? Who the Marvell?

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
February 21, 2025

We trace Marvell's poetry back to its perhaps distressing roots.

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
February 14, 2025

What did Marvell know and how did he use it? We look at the sexism in the poem and discover how this provocation is hardly unique in the carpe diem tradition.

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
February 07, 2025

What do we do with--how do we read--can we make us of--a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?

Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
January 31, 2025

We consider who is accountable for the text: author, character, or reader, and how writers build a narrative distance in texts to allow irony and meaning to operate (and shirking a bit of accountabili

An Introduction and Irony
January 24, 2025

What is Literary Nomads, anyway? And what does that have to do with Radiohead, Godzilla, professorial assault, and irony?