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Bookwarm Games

Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life: O, she"s warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. - The Winter"s Tale You"re back! Don"t bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at

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01:00:46

Night School: The Brothers Karamazov (Part II)

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2025/11/14

Discussing the Grand Inquisitor and other light topics.

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01:11:31

Side Quests FFIX: "World Big Place. Many many foods"...

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2025/11/07

Through Qu Marsh, Chocobo Forest, Gizamaluke Grotto, and on to Burmecia. Gameplay considerations galore. For more: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/ Thanks for listening!

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01:08:39

Side Quests FFIX: Fairy Tale, Myth, Theater, Festival...

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2025/11/02

Cid the Oglop, Freya the Dragon Knight, and Grandma Pickle the peddler join our adventurers in Lindblum for the Great Hunt. For more: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/ Thanks for listening!

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00:51:27

Side Quests FFIX: Dali and the Surreal Wonder of Mass...

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2025/10/24

Back from Marrakesh, Alex joins me to discuss Dali, both the 20th artist and the first village in our FF9 adventure. Characters transform and villains mirror one another. Airships go kaboom. Vivi suffers a crisis and enters Trance, whilst Zidane keeps trying to steal that rare loot. https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/Thanks for listening!

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01:03:13

Night School: Brothers Karamazov

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2025/10/17

Dostoevsky's masterpiece, introduction and part 1. Getting to know the characters and asking questions about sin.More to come!

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01:03:54

Side Quests FFIX: Mist and Ice as Symbols of the...

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2025/10/10

Professor Schmid and I direct ourselves in the middle of life's way out of the dark wood (RIP Blank?) of an Evil Forest and through the Ice Cavern. Rising above the Mist, we consider the name changes and character arcs thus far. For more resources, see the course page: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/ Thanks for listening!

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01:05:40

Persona 4: Golden - Tropes and Shadows (ep 2)

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2025/10/05

Professor Kozlowski and I will be meeting Thursdays in the discord and we'd love for a few more students to join in the discussion of Persona 4: Golden and its place in the culture. For more resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/persona-4-golden/ This time we look at the opening act, main characters, and power dynamics in the game's arcana and worldbuilding. Thanks for listening.

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01:12:51

Side Quests FFIX: I want to be or not to be your canary

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2025/10/03

Shakespeare and Scheherazade, FFVI opera and FFVII rooftops remixed and Mage-mashed on the airship stage. For more, see the course page: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/Thanks for listening!

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00:43:44

Video Game Academy: Persona 4 Golden Intro

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2025/09/28

If you listen to this episode on a rainy night while looking into an old TV, you might catch a glimpse of your soul mate. And/or be pulled into another world, help solve a murder, unlock arcane abilities, etc. Professor Kozlowski and I will be meeting Thursdays in the discord and we'd love for a few more students to join in the discussion of Persona 4: Golden and its place in the culture. Find out more at https://videogameacademia.org/ Thanks for listening.

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00:58:03

Side Quests FFIX: Garnet's Awakening (Ep 1)

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2025/09/26

From the Princess in Alexandria's fairy-tale castle to monkey-tailed Zidane and his crew aboard the airship, and then down among the rabble and rat kids with an unnamed Black Mage, we start a new game in our Side Quests series, Final Fantasy IX. We hope to discuss the game as well as respond to some of the commentary out there, such as Resonant Art, FF Union, and "Necron as Elenchus" by Aaron Suduiko of With a Terrible Fate. For more, see the course page:

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00:38:03

Night School: Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

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2025/09/19

And Nabokov, again. Alex and I join a conversation that has been going on for some time--Reviewed by Edmund Wilson: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/07/15/the-strange-case-of-pushkin-and-nabokov/ Nabokov replies: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1965/08/26/letters-the-strange-case-of-nabokov-and-wilson/ The text of Nabokov's translation of this timeless, elegant, bizarre "Novel in Verse" can be found online, but it takes some searching. Thanks for listening.

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01:01:40

Side Quests: FFVIII - Ultimecia's Castle and Ending...

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2025/09/12

Exploring Ultimecia's Castle and all but one of its boss battles, we spend some time thinking about the implications of the end cutscenes and final thoughts the game wants to leave us with. This brings us to the end of our FFVIII discussions for now, but join the weekly discord to connect, Ellone-like, anytime. For more FFVIII study resources, see https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for listening!

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01:02:53

Night School - Crime and Punishment

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2025/09/05

Justin joins us to discuss the Dostoevsky book most people who ever read him read first--or if not Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground. Over the past year, we've read most of his major works, and we'll be back at some point with a discussion of The Brothers Karamazov. Also mentioned: Mr Grenke's essay on Chekhov: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/6171391c274812c5059f802de70a0351.pdf Thanks for listening.

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00:57:19

Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 23: Fujin Talks Sense

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2025/08/29

Back from summer break here at the Video Game Academy, and this time we delve into Lunatic Pandora, battling Fujin and Raijin, Mobile Type 8, Seifer, and Adel, crossing into Disc 4. We have one more week to go in FFVIII. So what's next? Alex speculates about starting right over to play more cards. I'm thinking Tactics or FFIX would be the move. Let us know your thoughts! For more FFVIII study resources, see https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for

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01:04:59

Night School - Pale Fire

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2025/08/22

Welcome to the return of Night School, a segment Alex and I had going for awhile back in the day reading and discussing classic literature. We're calling this installment Night School Pt Deux: The Ennightening. With Babcock, our friend from St John's, we read/play and reread/replay Nabokov's Pale Fire. Text: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458629/page/n214/mode/1up?view=theater Context: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/textcult.8.1.101?seq=1

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00:34:16

Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 22: You vant to fisticuffs!?

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2025/08/01

Approaching the end of disc 3, President/Dad Laguna has a plan! A corny, foolproof plan to overcome time compression with love, friendship, and courage!For more, Ragnarok on over to https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/ Thanks for listening!

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01:05:25

Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 21: Propagators on a Plane

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2025/07/25

Space and Ragnarok

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00:53:12

Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 20: Yeah, Yeah, Knight in...

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2025/07/18

On the space station built for keeping an eye on the moon and the sorceress in stasis, we get it. Thanks for listening! For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/

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01:14:06

Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 19: A Squall-like Game

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2025/07/11

Laguna's making movie magic with a Ruby Dragon and rescuing Ellone in Esthar, while Squall carries Rinoa piggyback from the White SeeD Ship to that same futuristic city hidden by dragon bones in the salt lake. Thanks for listening! For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/

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00:53:37

Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 18 Download the Holy Machine

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2025/06/27

Boss rushes and aerial choreography above the melee, with pauses to discuss Squall's ring. Most challenging of all: playing cards with the random rules, stacked onto sames and plusses...Ultimecia/ Artemisia makes her appearance, plotwise, along with Cerberus and Alexander in quick succession, and Rinoa goes into a coma after Seifer departs. Welcome to Disc 3. Thanks for listening! For more FFVIII study resources: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-viii/

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