How To Love Lit Podcast
252 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsA look at all of the literature you read in high school and college and wished you had paid more attention to.
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Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine Hansberry - Episode 2
February 17, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBRaisin In the sun - Lorraine Hansberry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine Hansberry - Episode 1 - Meet The Author
February 16, 2023 12:09 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBRaisin In The SUn. Lorraine Hansberry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 3 - The Radiant Stars Of Love And Brotherhood
February 12, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes - 29.6 MBDr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 3 - The Radiant Stars Of Love And Brotherhood I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I am Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our third episode in this series discussing Dr. King’s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement most specifically in his iconic and historically important Letter From Birmingham Jail. Next episode, we ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 2 - There Are Just And There Are Unjust Laws
February 11, 2023 06:00 - 56 minutes - 45.2 MBMartin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 2 - There Are Just And There Are Unjust Laws Hi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our second week discussing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the letter that some consider today to be one of the most significant political documents to emerge from the American continent in the last 300 yea...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 1 - Dr. King Reaches Out Of His Jail Cell To Touch The Heart Of A Nation!
February 10, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MBMartin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 1 - Dr. King Reaches Out Of His Jail Cell To Touch The Heart Of A Nation! I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we are going to start a three part series on a man who changed the landscape of political protesting- demonstrating that positive change can occur without massive loss of life. He won ...
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 4 - The Struggle Between Meaning And Happiness!
February 04, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 38.5 MBHi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we conclude our four-part series on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; the world Huxley creates may be New but certainly it is not brave. Michel Houellebecq in his 1998 novel The Elementary Particles references Brave New World in an unusual way. Instead of seeing it as a warning of an evil to be avoided, he, or at leas...
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 3 - The Two Dystopian Worlds Collide!
January 28, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBI’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love lit Podcast. This is our third episode in our four part series on Aldous Huxley’s negative utopia Brave New World. In episode 1, we met Huxley and toured London’s Central Hatchery, covering chapters 1 and 2. In episode 2, we discussed chapters 3-5 meeting two characters from the novel. I want to point out that they are main characters, and...
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 2 - The Best World Science Can Create!
January 21, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes - 38 MBHi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is episode 2 of our 4 part series discussing Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Today we will finish our discussion of part one of this book, chapters 1-5 and begin the transition into the second part. In other words, we will explore a progressive world of perfect containment and stability before shifting to a primitive on...
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 1 - Is It Dystopian Or Utopian?
January 14, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MBSo, let’s get started, first, it’s important to note that this book was published in the UK in 1931. So, for context, let’s think about what was happening or really what hadn’t happened yet in Europe or the rest of the world. The book is pre-Hitler, pre-Stalin, pre-internet, pre-mass-media, pre-social engineering, he predates a lot of the things that define what we call the modern world, yet you might not think that just reading it. It pre-dates Orwell’s 1984, too. That book wasn’t writt...
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone - Episode 3 - Reintegration And New Life!
December 10, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 31.6 MBHi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our third and final episode discussing Ismael Beah’s personal memoir A Long Way Gone, Memoir of a Boy Soldier. In Week one, we discussed the first ten chapters of the book, introduced a very brief history of Sierra Leone, as a country, as well as a little background as to what started the civil unrest and why i...
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone - Episode 2 - The Creation Of A Child Soldier
December 03, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MBHi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is episode two in our three part series on Ishmael Beah’s national bestseller A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. It is Ismael Beah’s first hand account of what he experienced as a child during Sierra Leone’s long armed conflict which completely ravaged the country and displaced a third of its inhabitants b...
Ismael Beah - A Long Way Gone - Episode 1 - The Stirring Memoir of a Child Soldier
November 26, 2022 06:00 - 35 minutes - 28.3 MBIsmael Beah - A Long Way Gone - Episode 1 - The Stirring Memoir of a Child Soldier Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Iroquois Constitution - An Important Part of the American Political Tradition!
November 19, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 31.5 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar!
November 12, 2022 13:47 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask Of Amontillado
November 05, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 84.1 MBEdgar Allan Poe - The Cask Of Amontillado Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
October 29, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBEdgar Allan Poe - The Raven Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 4 - The World Clarified And The Conclusion
October 22, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.8 MBHarper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 4 - The World Clarified And The Conclusion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 3 - Real Life History Finds Its Way Into Tom Robinson's Trial
October 14, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBHarper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 3 - Real Life History Finds Its Way Into Tom Robinson's Trial Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 2 - Innocence, Motifs And The Power Of Language!
October 08, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBHarper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 2 - Innocence, Motifs And The Power Of Language! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our second episode over that great American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Last week, we introduced our author and both of her published books. We compared them briefly, looked at the titles of each, and then focused mo...
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - Episode 1 - So Many Mysteries About The Author - And The Book!
October 01, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes - 38.1 MBHi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we begin our discussion on a deeply beloved book by many but at the same time one of the most censored books ever written on the American continent. When it was published in 1960 it was an immediate hit with the public. Critics called it melodramatic and over-simplistic but that hasn’t stopped people from readin...
Mary Fisher - Whispers Of AIDS - One Of The Top 100 Speeches Of The 20th Century!
September 24, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes - 27.9 MBI’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Last episode we concluded our series on George Bernard Shaw, a man who believed art should be didactic. This week we explore another artist, Mary Fisher, who also has something important to say. Fisher advocates through her sculptures, quilts and textiles, but also through her speeches. She has authored six books, received h...
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion - Episode 3 - The Ending - It's A Breakup Not A Wedding!
September 17, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 30.5 MBHi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This episode we are wrapping up our three-part series on George Bernard Shaw otherwise known as GBS and his phenomenally successful play, Pygmalion. In week 1, we introduced Shaw, some of his political ideologies, the Greek myth Pygmalion from where Shaw took his inspiration, as well as ACT 1. Last week, we discussed ...
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion - Episode 2 - The Pygmalion Effect And The Many Effects Of Pygmalion!
September 10, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 30.7 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion - Episode 1 - No One Is Safe From The Acerbic Wit Of GBS!
September 03, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBGeorge Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion - Episode 1 - No One Is Safe From The Acerbic Wit Of GBS! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I am Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our second week discussing the life of George Bernard Shaw as well as his most famous piece, Pygmalion. Last week, we introduced this Nobel prize winning author, as well as gave some background as to his life, personalit...
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - Episode 5 - The Revelation And Conclusion!
August 29, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.3 MBNathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - Episode 5 - The Revelation And Conclusion! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - Episode 4 - Do Hester and Dimmesdale surrender to love? Find out in this episode!
August 28, 2022 05:00 - 58 minutes - 47.2 MBNathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - Episode 4 - Do Hester and Dimmesdale surrender to love? Find out in this episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Episode 3 - The Narcissism of Dimmesdale and Chillingworth.
August 27, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBThe Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Episode 3 - The Narcissism of Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne -Episode 2 - We meet Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and little Pearl
August 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBThe Scarlet Letter Episode - Nathaniel Hawthorne -Episode 2 - We meet Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and little Pearl! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Episode 1 - Meet Hawthorne, The Puritans And The First Scaffold Scene
August 20, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 27 MBThe Scarlet Letter Episode #1 - Meet Hawthorn, the Puritans and the first scaffold scene. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 5 - Insanity And The Dark Conclusion To Satire!
August 06, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes - 80.1 MBJonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 5 - Insanity And The Dark Conclusion To Satire! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 4 - Journey #3 - Sir Isaac Newton Under Fire!
July 30, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 41.9 MBJonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 3 - Journey #3 - Sir Isaac Newton Under Fire! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 3 - Journey #2 - From Giant To Tiny In One Trip!
July 23, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes - 35 MBJonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 3 - Journey #2 - From Giant To Tiny In One Trip! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 2 - Journey #1 To Lilliput And Satire!
July 16, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 44.7 MBJonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 2 - Journey #1 To Lilliput And Satire! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 1 - Meet The Champion Of Satire And Personal Mystery!
July 09, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.4 MBJonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - Episode 1 - Meet The Champion Of Satire And Personal Mystery! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Elizabeth Bishop - Pink Dog - The Iconic Work Of One Of America’s Favorite Poets!
July 04, 2022 14:45 - 48 minutes - 39 MBElizabeth Bishop - Pink Dog - The Iconic Work Of One Of America’s Favorite Poets! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Phillis Wheatley - Poet of the Revolutionary Era - ”His Excellency General Washington”
July 04, 2022 14:30 - 48 minutes - 39 MBPhillis Wheatley - Poet of the Revolutionary Era - ”His Excellency General Washington” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Alchemist Episode #4 - Magical Realism, The 7 Rules, And becoming the wind!
June 19, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBThe Alchemist Episode #4 - Magical Realism, The 7 Rules, And becoming the wind! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Alchemist - Episode #3 - Journey to the oasis! - Personal legends, omens.....and sheep!
June 18, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Alchemist - Episode #3 - Journey to the oasis! - Personal legends, omens.....and sheep! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Alchemist - Episode #2 - Learn the rules of the universe!
June 14, 2022 15:14 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBThe Alchemist - Episode #2 - Learn the rules of the universe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Alchemist- Meet the author, Paulo Coelho and get introduced to his most famous work
June 11, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBThe introduction to the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Meet the author, Paulo Coelho and get introduced to his most famous work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace - The Master Of The Short Story At His Best!
June 04, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.4 MBGuy de Maupassant - The Necklace - The Master Of The Short Story At His Best! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we are going to journey to France and meet one of the greatest short story writers in the world- he influenced O Henry, Chekov, Kate Chopin and many others- this would be Guy de Maupassant. And the story we will be reading and discussing...
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 4 - Symbolism, Romanticism, Nihilism And A Dissonant Ending!
May 21, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes - 47.3 MBKate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 4 - Symbolism, Romanticism, Nihilism And A Dissonant Ending! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver. We’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our final episode in our four-part series of Kate Chopin’s masterpiece The Awakening. There is a lot layered in such a short book. In episode 1, we discuss Chopin’s life, we introduce the concept of “local color” an...
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 3 - Edna Pontellier Battles The Forces Without Only To Meet The Forces Within!
May 14, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBKate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 3 - Edna Pontellier Battles The Forces Without Only To Meet The Forces Within! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our third episode discussing Kate Chopin’s controversial novella, The Awakening. Week 1 we introduced Chopin, her life and the book itself. We talked about what a stir it made during her lifetime...
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 2 - Edna Pontellier Defies All Explanations!
May 07, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBKate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 2 - Edna Pontellier Defies All Explanations! HI, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is our second episode in our four part series discussing the world of Kate Chopin. Last week we introduced our author and what is generally considered her masterpiece, the novella, The Awakening. Today we will continue discussin...
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 1 - Meet The Author, Discover Local Color And Feminism!
April 30, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.6 MBKate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 1 - Meet The Author, Discover Local Color And Feminism! I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love lit Podcast. This episode we begin a journey to a very unique American location to discuss a very American author. Kate Chopin, was born in St Louis but her heritage is more associated with Louisiana than with Missouri as she is from an or...
Foo Fighters - Lyrics That Camus Would Call The Antidote For Absurdity!
April 23, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 38.7 MBFoo Fighters - Lyrics That Camus Would Call The Antidote Of Absurdity! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I am Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. You have heard Christy say, over dozens of times if you’ve listened to a lot of our episodes that we’re here to discuss books. Having said that, the word “books” is being used as a synecdoche- to use a literary word- in other words, books is ...
Albert Camus - The Stranger - Episode 3 - The Absurdity Of A Happy Ending???
April 09, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes - 41.5 MBAlbert Camus - The Stranger - Episode 3 - The Absurdity Of A Happy Ending??? Hi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we finish up our three part series on Albert Camus’ class novella L’Etranger- translated in English to either The Stranger or The Outsider depending on which side of the Atlantic ocean you reside. We talked extensively about ...
Albert Camus - The Stranger - Episode 2 - The Consequences Of Meaninglessness!
April 02, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes - 37.1 MBAlbert Camus - The Stranger - Episode 2 - The Consequences Of Meaninglessness! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I am Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is episode 2 in our three part series in the first work of Albert Camus’ great cycle of Absurdity- the novella, l”etranger or the Stranger also called The Outsider. Last week we began discussing Camus’ life, his homeland Algeria, a...
Albert Camus - The Stranger - Episode 1 -Introduction To Absurdity!
March 26, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes - 38.1 MBAlbert Camus - The Stranger - Episode 1 -Introduction To Absurdity!I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we begin a three part series on Albert Camus’ mostly widely translated and perhaps even read book, “L’Estranger”- which in English has been translated “The Outsider” as well as “The Stranger”- both apply and apply well, which we’ll talk about more...
Agatha Christie - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Episode 2 - Agatha Christies Masterpiece of Whodunit!
March 19, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.1 MBAgatha Christie - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Episode 2 - Agatha Christies Masterpiece of Whodunit! HI, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love lit podcast. This is our second and final episode discussing Christie’s breakout novel, the one critics claim is her very best, The Murder or Roger Ackroyd. Last week, we talked about the book in terms of it being a formal dete...