American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

Episode 539: Stephen King: IT (Part 9)

In this episode I explore three chapters of Stephen King's novel IT. It includes a couple of a my...

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Episode 538: Stephen King: IT (Part 8)

In this episode I look at the chapters "The Smokehole" and "Eddie's Big Break" from Stephen...

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Episode 537: Stephen King: IT (Part 7)

I continue my deep dive into IT by Stephen King by looking at the turning point chapters on the...

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Episode 536: The American Civil War (21): Winter of 1863-1864

In this episode, I look at some historical documents produced in the winter of 1863 and 1864....

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Episode 535: Stephen King: IT (Part 6)

In this episode I look at the "Walking Tours" chapter of Stephen King's novel IT. It sets up some...

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Episode 534: American Civil War (20): The Gettysburg Address

In this episode I explore more documents from the American Civil War, focusing on the end of...

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Episode 533: Stephen King, IT (5)

This is the episode where I deal with the biggest problem I have interpreting this novel. The...

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Episode 532: The American Civil War (19): Making a Revolution

The documents from the summer of 1863, after the victories of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, show how...

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Episode 531: Stephen King: IT (4)

In this episode we continue our slow read through IT by Stephen King and finish up part two of...

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Episode 530: Stephen King, It (3)

Part three of my review of IT by Stephen King. The chapters I look at here explore the creation...

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Episode 529: The American Civil War (18): The Turning Point

In this episode we look at a handful of turning points in the American Civil War by working...

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Episode 528: Stephen King: IT (2)

Part two of my review of Stephen King's IT. I mostly discuss how much I like the book's...

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Episode 527: The American Civil War (17):June of 1863

As I continue reading through a series of primary sources on the American Civil War, I dig into...

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Episode 526: Stephen King, IT (1)

This episode of my non-Hugo-award-winning podcast introduces a mini-series on Stephen King's IT,...

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Episode 525: The American Civil War (16): Total War

When did the American Civil War become a total war? The documents I look at in this episode cover...

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Episode 524: The American Civil War (15): Impact of Emancipation

In this episode I continue my Civil War series and look at the impact of Emancipation on the war...

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Episode 522: Benjamin Franlkin: Writings from the Seven Years’ War and Letters

A bit of a mixed bag in this episode. I close out my look at Franklin's writings from before his...

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Episode 521: Benjamin Franklin 1747-1754: The Albany Plan

I read another 100 pages of American writers. This time, it is Ben Franklin's writings from the...

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Episode 520: Benjamin Franklin-1733-1745 and the Formation of the American Philosophical Society

The 1730s and 1740s saw Benjamin Franklin use his newspaper to promote issues of public necessity...

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Episode 519: Benjamin Franklin: Early journalism and his argument for paper currency

We look at Ben Franklin's writings in the later 1720s and early 1730s. Mostly I consider some of...

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