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 t

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Le Guin Part 5: Q&A

Posted September 12, 202500:55:08

Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant--or respond--back.

Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin

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Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more levels of complication?

Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth

Posted August 30, 202500:41:32

Sure, the Omelas dilemma is tough, but at least we have our narrator as ally, right? Right? Perhaps the real horror in Omelas has less to do with the...

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Is this story really about that suffering child? Or is it more about how we wall its suffering out, then invite it back in?

Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain

Posted August 15, 202500:50:28

At last we settle in to think about Le Guin's Omelas story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts.