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Category Archives: Checking Channels

June 27, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith

There’s a new Poet Laureate in town —Joy Harjo. Tracy K. Smith, the previous Poet Laureate, has done a beautiful job of her laureateship. One of her endeavors is Slowdown, an audio podcast featuring a poem a day. Smith has some … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Joy Harjo. Tracy K. Smith, Slowdown | Permalink

June 6, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: Literary Friction with Carrie Plitt and Octavia Bright

Stumbled on to a great podcast called Literary Friction hosted by Carrie Plitt, a literary agent, and her friend Octavia Bright, an academic. This monthly podcast features an author and the show is usually centered on some kind of theme. … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Carrie Plitt, Octavia Bright | Permalink

May 23, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: What Should I Read Next with Anne Bogel

If you are looking for some good book recommendations, you will enjoy listening to What Should I Read Next by Anne Bogel or Modern Mrs. Darcy as she calls herself. Her podcast is aired every week and she talks to … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: book recommendations, Mrs Darcy, podcast | Permalink

May 9, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: Get Booked with Amanda Nelson and Jenn Northington

Get Booked has an interesting format. It is a weekly podcast for personalized reading recommendations hosted by Book Riot’s Amanda Nelson and Jenn Northington. You can fill out a form to submit your own recommendation request. The hosts are chatty and … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Book Riot, Get Booked, podcast | Permalink

April 25, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: You’re Booked with Daisy Buchanan

For some light-hearted banter about books on authors’ bookshelves, You’re Booked is the perfect podcast for literary nosy parkers. Daisy Buchanan plays Book Inspector and interviews primarily British authors about the first forbidden books on their list. She talks about … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Daisy Buchanan, Nikesh Shukla, podcast | Permalink

April 11, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: Mostly Lit with Alex, Raifa, Derek and Clarissa

Reading books doesn’t have to be a solitary activity. That’s just what the Mostly Lit podcast hosted by a trio of Black British millennials. Derek Owusu discovered D. H. Lawrence when he was in university. Rai is an East African East … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Black British literature, FutureBook40, pop culture | Permalink

March 28, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: The Lizzie Bennett Diaries by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick

Have any of you watched The Lizzie Bennet Diaries? It’s is an American vlog series by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick and has been adapted from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It premiered on  April 9, 2012 and concluded when the … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Emmy, Pride and Prejudice, The Lizzie Bennett Diaries | Permalink

March 14, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: By the Book Pod with Jolenta and Kristen

I chanced upon By the Book, a podcast By the Book Pod. It’s a ‘half reality show, half self-help podcast’. In each episode, Jolenta Greenberg, a producer and performer in New York, and Kristen Meinzer, an audio producer and host, … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: By the Book, podcast, Self help | Permalink

February 28, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: Interpreting the Oedipus Myth Using Vegetables with Jason Wishnow

Familiar with the Oedipus myth? If not watch Hank Green’s crash course on Oedipus. Now that you know the myth, you might be amused by this animation featuring vegetables as the cast. Vegetables have featured in art before in good … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: Jason Wishnow, Oedipus, stop-animation | Permalink

February 14, 2019
by Neelima
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Checking Channels: Ways of Seeing with John Berger

Ways of Seeing is a four-part BBC documentary by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. It was broadcast in 1972 and was later adapted into a book of the same name. Says Wikipedia “The series was intended as a response … Continue reading →

Categories: Checking Channels | Tags: art, BBC, John Berger, oil painting, reality, Ways of Seeing | Permalink

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