The Literature Humanities Radio Hour on WKCR 89.9FM: Literary Classics in Conversation

Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon (1977) | 20th Century American Literature

Thomas, Katrina & Mia discuss Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse (1927) | Early 20th Century Modernist Literature

Thomas, Katrina and Alec discuss Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, published 1927.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) | 19th Century Realist Literature

Thomas, Katrina & Hamid join to discuss Jane Austen's "half satire, half romance" novel Pride & Prejudice. Their conversation begins at the end, considering who the novel's unabashedly "happy ending" is for, and what love even is in this novel.

Sor Juana | Early 17th Century Proto-Feminist Poetry?

Thomas, Katrina & Tamara discuss the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th Century Mexican literary figure who swore off the life of the court (and the requirements to marry) in order to preserve her intellectual independence, writing instead from her cloister. Alongside her poetic verses, they discuss in particular Sor Juana's First Dream, a strange abstract journey into the body towards the soul, and follow it on its strange hovering movements.

Shakespeare's King Lear (1606)

Thomas, Larry & Katrina spend a good half an hour discussing the opening scene of King Lear and the mad king's division of his kingdom among his three daughters, all the while discussing the problems of intrigue, inheritance, betrayal, trust and (human) nature in Shakespeare's big beast of a play.