S10E130: Celebrating America’s 250th in Books with Summer Smith
I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let’s start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. And let me…
S9E120: Morning Time for Moms, Pt. 8, Twenty Years of The Literary Ladies Book Club
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. P. G. Wodehouse Listen Now: Show Summary: Books and Links Mentioned: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Extraordinary Ordinary People…
S9E118: A Dad’s Role in the Homeschool and Living Book Press with Anthony Coafield
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all…
S7E100: Why Literature Still Matters with Dr. Jason Baxter
And this is exactly what I had accidentally inflicted on myself in Sardinia. The distance between me and the landscape had been erased. I had been reduced to an experience of pure elemental conditions, and I loved it, because I…
S7E99: 25 Books of Christmas with Jeannette Tulis
Now imagination does not descend, full grown, to take possession of an empty house; like every other power of the mind, it is the merest germ of a power to begin with, and grows by what it gets; and childhood,…
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S7E95: Karen Glass on “Much May Be Done with Sparrows”
Town children may get a great deal of pleasure in watching the ways of sparrows––knowing little birds, and easily tamed by a dole of crumbs,––and their days out will bring them in the way of new acquaintances. But much may…
