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39:12

Dreaming Animal Dreams: Dalloway Intertextualities...

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2026/01/02

This episode is the first half of our conversation on the intertextualities of Mrs Dalloway, looking at Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Robert Lippincott's Mr. Dalloway. We introduced the books, spending a little time on each and discussing the MRSD legacy more broadly before turning to the texts themselves.We talk about how both authors approach narration differently, with Lippincott using a more playful style that closely mimics Woolf's technique of moving between multiple character

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54:31

Waves of Pure Lemon: Katharine Smyth and "All The...

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2025/12/18

Katharine Smyth joins the show to talk about her memoir, All The Lives We Ever Lived, her Woolfian inheritance, her family, and much more. She takes us through how Woolf inspired the emotional symbolism of her memoir and connected it with the impact of her father’s death.Listen in as Dan and Katharine discuss tattoo parallels, going to Woolf’s former house, and how the publication of her memoir affected her family. In the meantime, check out Katharine’s website and, as always, stay critical!

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67:48

It Was His Sayings One Remembered: Mrs Woolf and Mrs...

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2025/11/01

Suddenly Elizabeth stepped forward and most competently boarded the omnibus, in front of everybody.This episode is the first in our series on Mrs Dalloway, for the 100th anniversary of its publication.In this episode, we talk somewhat generally about the novel, getting into Woolf’s style and narrational mode, and how she manages to create a sense of her book being “lived-in.” What’s really interesting about MRSD, (well, one of the many, many things), is how scenic it is. Literally: the novel is

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61:50

Searching for Witticisms: Rachel León on THE REMAINS...

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2025/10/24

This episode features the excellent Rachel León joining the show to discuss Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. Rachel wrote for L’Esprit way back in Issue Zero, and has all sorts of cool stuff going on.We get into the novel and break down its use of first person narration, and Stevens’ endless search for the appropriate invocation of banter. It’s a wild book and a fun conversation; hope you enjoy it. In the meantime, check out Rachel’s website and, of course, stay critical!

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51:31

A Region That Outlay Human Identity: Rachel Cusk's...

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2025/10/09

Our first memoir in the Cordlivres Club! On this episode, we’re talking Rachel Cusk’s The Last Supper, from 2009, about a summer spent in Italy with her family. It’s all about art, language, meaning, truth, tennis—you know, typical stuff.We get into Cusk's distinctive writing style, particularly her ability to blend abstract philosophical concepts with concrete human experiences through figurative language. I touch on her unique narrative technique of "first-person free and direct," which allows

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72:50

Bore This Funeral Affair: James Joyce's Ulysses [Part...

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2025/10/02

What better way to tackle the most titanic of twentieth century novels—both within and beyond the text itself—than to bring in a very special guest? Indirect Books’ debut author, and noted literary maverick, Michael Nath joins to show to get stuck in to Joyce’s monumental Ulysses. We take a look at Episodes Four (“Calypso”) & Five (“The Lotus Eaters”), more or less, in this epic two-part conversation.In this second episode, we get into Episode Five of the novel, talk a little about the

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55:07

The Inner Organs of Beasts and Fowls: James Joyce's...

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2025/09/29

What better way to tackle the most titanic of twentieth century novels—both within and beyond the text itself—than to bring in a very special guest? Indirect Books’ debut author, and noted literary maverick, Michael Nath joins to show to get stuck in to Joyce’s monumental Ulysses. We take a look at Episodes Four (“Calypso”) & Five (“The Lotus Eaters”), more or less, in this epic two-part conversation.Michael starts us off with his personal connection to the book, having first read it in 1983 and

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57:20

Thinking Was A Vain Act: H. S. Cross' AMANDA

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2025/09/23

Our latest guest episode in the Cordelives Club doubles as our first author talk! The marvellous H. S. Cross joins us to talk about her new novel, Amanda.Heather and I talk about her belief in point-of-view, the MFA-less route she took to writing, how she researched and thought about her novel, and so much more. Amanda is a super cool book, and this episode is a great look both at it and at Heather’s approach to her craft. A fascinating conversation that might offer a lot of insight for those

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35:36

If The Past Comes In It Will Wring Her Neck: Eimear...

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2025/09/17

This episode focuses on the second half of Eimear McBride's 2020 novel Strange Hotel, talking about the way her prose creates a parallel relationship between the reader’s repose to the text and the character’s response to memory. We looked at some more of that awesome McBride language, and had fun with quotes.We focused on how the novel's language and structure create immersive memories and emotional depth, with specific attention to the narrative's shift from third-person to first-person

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40:30

Youth's Glorious Absence of Context: Eimear McBride's...

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2025/09/14

This episode focuses on the first half of Eimear McBride's excellent novel Strange Hotel, diving into its unique narrative structure, narrational techniques (including our old friend the present tense), immersive language, and use of memory. The discussion explores the novel’s Modernist inheritances and approach, including different levels of third-person narration and the use of scenic immediacy juxtaposed with accessed interiority.We can see similar methods in writers from James Joyce to Rachel

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61:35

Anika & Aerin--Two Special Guests

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2025/09/01

The brilliant L’Esprit interns, Aerin and Anika, join the show to discuss their experiences working on the journal, their views on the state of literature, and a couple of short stories they wanted to check out.I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did—we’re thrilled to have Anika and Aerin with us, and had a great time talking with them.Merci !

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70:18

Some Vision All His Own: James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"

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2025/08/30

Our first guest episode in the Cordelives Club! My friend Brian—poet, professor, lover of Paris—joins to talk about James Baldwin’s brilliant short story “Sonny’s Blues", and tunes in an absolute tour de force.Brian takes us through the story from the sentence level out to the wider context of Baldwin’s life; we cover everything from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s to Baldwin’s influences from painting and music to the Parisian art scene to Biblical allegory to the way imagery and metaphor

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53:42

A Proximate Distance: Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat

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2025/08/22

This episode focuses on Muriel Spark's 1970 novel The Driver's Seat, diving into Spark’s author's technique of "getting in and out" of scenes and the way she mediates the reader-protagonist relationship. The third person present-tense narration continually—and fearlessly—drops us into the middle of scenes without explanation, using a strange, compelling distanced narration and making inexplicable temporal jumps to the future.We talk about how the novel's effectiveness comes from this controlled

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48:27

Narrative and Narration: Virginia Woolf's "In The...

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2025/08/14

Welcome to the first episode of Les Cordelivres Club, conversations in revolutionary criticism from Indirect Books. This episode focuses on Virginia Woolf’s short story “In The Orchard,” and the foundational mode of analysis for literary critique: a consideration of narrative and narration. What is the distinction between narration and narrative in literature? What is the narrating entity and how does it shape the story? How can authors create distinct worldviews and textures through discrete

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Bonjour et Bienvenue: A Cordelivres Criticism Club...

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2025/08/12

Welcome to our new series of applied literary criticism from the Free and Direct Podcast and Indirect Books! The Cordelivres Criticism Club takes its name from a social club during the French Revolution, and will be a place to celebrate our favorite literary texts--new and old, novels and stories, famous and obscure--as we look to analyze them from the inside-out. We'll have deep-dives, guest episodes, mini-series, and more. Find out more about the series on our Substack post, and join us for

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34:49

Community and Expression: In Conversation with...

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2025/08/09

Join us for the second half of our home-and-home with the excellent ARTWIFE Mag! Editor Hannah Harlee talks with Dan about her background in writing and editing, founding ARTWIFE, and how she came up with that excellent name. We also get into the confluence of visual and literary aesthetics and how ARTWIFE builds their expansive literary community. A great conversation and a great magazine!

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48:18

Point of Fact: A Conversation With Diane Josefowicz...

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2025/08/04

Our third episode is a wonderful conversation with the brilliant Diane Josefowicz about her new novella, L'Air du Temps (1985).Diane starts us off with a reading, and then we get into the book: we cover narrative structure, novelistic composition--especially the theme of doubling and a mixture of past and present tense--the resonances to her own life and childhood found in the book, and the wider fictive world of her main character, Zinnia. Diane also shares how a true crime podcast and her

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53:04

In Support of Fearless Writing: A L'Esprit Editorial...

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2025/08/02

L'Esprit Literary Review editors Jessica Denzer and Dan White join Hannah Harlee of ARTWIFE Magazine to talk about the history of L'Esprit, what they look for in submissions, and the future of the journal, We also discuss Indirect Books and how our new press fits into the L'Esprit world.

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53:38

Filling Yourself With Language: In Conversation with...

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2025/03/26

Join Indirect publishers Jessica Denzer and Dan White in conversation with author Michael Nath. Michael talks with us about his literary ancestry, his influences, and his new novel, Talbot & The Fall, which will be published as Indirect's first release in 2026.

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