Literary Nomads

Literary Nomads

Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!

Episodes

July 11, 2025 38 mins
Still another famous writer has posed the Le Guin question, and he did it in one of Russia's most famous novels, The Brothers Karamazov. Here it is.
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Le Guin leans on an essay by William James, but what does that have to do with all our garden talk? It's about our blind spots and our privilege.
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June 27, 2025 38 mins
Speaking of links back to Andrew Marvell's poetry--weren't we?--we expose some of our misapprehensions about nature, leisure, and work. And we read Marvell's poem "The Garden" while we think green thoughts about it.
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June 20, 2025 48 mins
What does it mean to embrace "Other"? And how might we understand carpe diem if we truly had "world enough and time?" Le Guin shows us in her famous science fiction short story.
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June 13, 2025 52 mins
Where we've been and where we're going, and we take a pause in a museum gallery, too!
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May 30, 2025 4 mins
Looking ahead at Season 6: Ursula K. Le Guin's story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," and all the wrestling we do with dilemmas of ethics.
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May 23, 2025 45 mins
We finish a carpe diem journey and I reflect back on what I've learned, what I believe, and where we are going next.
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It's time for the end of our carpe diem journey, and we celebrate with a congratulatory essay! Hey, why so glum?
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May 9, 2025 53 mins
Sure we can philosophize, but what happens when we put carpe diem to the test in the modern world of capital?
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May 2, 2025 37 mins
What is required of us to find the power and meaning in art? in poetry? Is it related to carpe diem? And does it give us any guidance in how to approach meaningful lives?
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April 25, 2025 32 mins
How far away are we from the original meaning of carpe diem? And does it matter?
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April 18, 2025 35 mins
Can some fan-fiction teach us more about carpe diem than a classic Roman poet? 
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April 11, 2025 31 mins
Can an ancient Roman poet illuminate the concept of carpe diem? Perhaps, but then again . . .
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April 4, 2025 29 mins
Writing back to authors and their works is essential to the literary culture; it also helps us answer our essential questions. Let's do some of that, then!
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March 28, 2025 46 mins
Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.
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March 21, 2025 49 mins
Where do we find people to talk to about our reading? And what do we say when we find them?
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March 14, 2025 39 mins
What do we mean by uncertainty in reading? And why do we have to look for it?
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March 7, 2025 29 mins
What questions do we carry with us as we leave Marvell's famous poem?
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Who is the speaker in this poem? Who the audience? Who the Marvell?
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We trace Marvell's poetry back to its perhaps distressing roots.
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