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The Purdue English Big Read Podcast

By: Purdue University's English Department
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  • Summary

  • Welcome to the Purdue English Department’s Big Read Podcast! Our Big Read program is designed to enrich Greater Lafayette through the shared experience of literature. On this podcast, we invite guests to discuss great books and why we can’t get enough of them. To learn more about our program, visit: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/the-big-read/index.html. (All opinions belong to individual speakers and are not representative of Purdue University.)
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Episodes
  • Spinning Silver: From Short Story to Novel

    Spinning Silver: From Short Story to Novel
    Oct 5 2023

    In the very first episode of the Purdue English Big Read podcast, host Erika Gotfredson and guests Narim Kim and Vanessa Iacocca discuss the evolution of Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver (2018) from short story to novel.
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    50 mins
  • Language as Magic in Spinning Silver

    Language as Magic in Spinning Silver
    Oct 5 2023

    Tune in as host Erika Gotfredson and guests Jason Abad and Emily Pearson discuss how names, language, and storytelling function as magic in Naomi Novik's novel Spinning Silver (2018).
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    44 mins
  • Marginalized Voices in Binti and Beyond

    Marginalized Voices in Binti and Beyond
    Oct 5 2023

    In this episode, host Erika Gotfredson and guests Juanita Crider and Malik Raymond explore Africanfuturism, character development, and the collision of STEM and literature in Nnedi Okorafor's trilogy Binti.
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    54 mins
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