The American Vandal
By Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies
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An ever-growing collection of conversations about literature, humor, and history in America, produced by the premier source for programming and funding scholarship on Mark Twain's life and legacy.
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Everyday Ecofascism with April Anson & Alexander Menrisky (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien (Vandal Live at UPenn English)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Inside Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Cruel Futurism
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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"Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The Jameson Tapes, Side B
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Jameson Tapes, Side A
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Spitesgiving in Flyover Country
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Vandal Live: Affordances of Enclosure & The Ends of Empires
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May 16, 2025 |
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Solidarity & Speculation
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May 14, 2025 |
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From Technostructure To Technofeudalism
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May 05, 2025 |
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Newspapers Worse Than Dead (But Print Is A Rent Strike)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Gilded Network
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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A Journey of Curiosity
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The First Curriculum Is Work Without Wages
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Philanthrocapitalism U
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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BONUS EPISODE: "First at Farce: Structures of Feeling in The Gilded Age" by Nathan Wolff (2024 Quarry Farm Symposium Keynote)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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The Historical Novel
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Always Historicize?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Strategic Presentism & Resistance History
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Fredric Jameson R.I.P
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Cruel Optimism & The Enclosure of the Commons
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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The Age of Insecurity
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Criticism LTD: Continuing The Dialogue (A Project Narrative Event)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Close Reading Feudalism(s) in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with James Phelan (A Project Narrative Crossover Episode)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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2024 with Anna Kornbluh & J.D. Connor
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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iLiberalism, The Morning Show, & The Sheeny Blandness of AppleTV+ with Anna Shechtman & Michael Szalay
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Close Reading, Conglomerate Authorship, & Qween Danielle Steel with Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Netflix Necrocapitalism & The House of Usher with Jane Hu & Phillip Maciak
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The Empire of Criticism (Finale)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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The Empire of Criticism (Part Two)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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The Empire of Criticism (Part One)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Ed Tech, AI, & The Unbundling of Research & Teaching
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Podcasting Criticism
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Criticism in The Conglomerate Era
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & The Audible Creation Exchange
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Brittle Paper & The Blogossance
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Politics & The Paracademy
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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The Chicago Fight & Economics Imperialism
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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The Chicago Fight & "Criticism Inc."
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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The Racist Interpretation Complex
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Ponzi Austerity & The Monolingual University
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Golden Age of The Working Critic
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Criticism LTD. Trailer
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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The Twitter Elegies (& Mastodon Scolds) with Rebecca Colesworthy & Jeff Jarvis
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Reckless Monetization, Surveillance Kleptocracy, & Olivia Snow's Villain Origin Story
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The Plausible End of Social Media, Downscaling, & The Latent Celebrity Mindset with Ian Bogost
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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The Collapse of Twitter, Zombie Cyberlibertarianism, & Commercial Content Moderation with Sarah T. Roberts
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Dance of the Cash Dragons with Aaron Bady, Michelle Chihara, & Sarah Mesle
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Industry Cringe & Reproductive Horror with Johanna Isaacson & Madeline Lane-McKinley
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Rooting For Everybody Black in the Issa Rae Extended Universe with Jalylah Burrell & Danielle Fuentes Morgan
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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The Sopranos Revival (Remember The End of The End of History?) with Peter Coviello & Xine Yao
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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The Rehearsal, Reality TV, & Warner Bros Discovery with J. D. Connor & Olivia Stowell
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Puzzles of Collective Intention, Corporate Authorship, Family Business Insurrection, & HBO's Succession with Lisa Siraganian & Michael Szalay
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Reconsidering Mark Twain Among The Indians with Herman Fillmore & Drew Lopenzina
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Talking Mark Twain Among The Indians with Kerry Driscoll
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Reviewing Mark Twain Among The Indians with John Bird, Susan K. Harris, & Ann Ryan
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Ministry For The Future (Worldwide Climate Teach-In Special Episode) with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Anna Kornbluh, & Min Hyoung Song
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Are We All Porn Workers Now?: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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A Hedge Fund with A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Showtime's Billions & COVID Form with Anna Kornbluh & Devin William Daniels
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Antiracism In The Contemporary University with Amanda Bailey, Tita Chico, & Emily Yoon Perez
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Shush (& The Chair) with Michelle Chihara & Kyla Wazana Tompkins
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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A Chair On The Chair with Karen Tongson
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Why Trust In Antitrust? with Sanjukta Paul & Marshall Steinbaum
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Generation Z, Mark Twain's Poetry, & Teaching English From East Texas to Harvard with Jocelyn Chadwick
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Mark Twain, Journalism, & the Search for Genus Americanus with Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, & Dan Tham
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May 19, 2021 |
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Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado
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May 04, 2021 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Readings for Hal Bush & Hiroko Bush
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War & Trade with Laleh Khalili
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain's Emo Playlist with Erin Bartram & Kerry Driscoll
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot's Love Letters To Emily Hale with Frances Dickey, Megan Quigley, & John Whittier-Ferguson
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian) with Emmet Asher-Perrin & Nathaniel Williams
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who's Yellen Now, & The GameStop-ification of Finance with Anna Kornbluh, Leigh Claire La Berge, & Michelle Chihara
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Myths of Reconstruction in The Wake of Insurrection with Brook Thomas
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Center for Mark Twain Studies 2020 Debrief From Quarry Farm with Joe Lemak & Steve Webb
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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BONUS EPISODE: The Gospel of Revolt: Mark Twain in Elmira with Hal Holbrook & Will Holbrook
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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DEEP CUTS BOOK CLUB #1: Mark Twain's "Letter From Santa Claus" with Mark Dawidziak, Penne Restad, & Jana Tigchelaar
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Good Lord Bird & John Brown in Ethan Hawke's America with Jeffrey Insko & Ashley Rattner
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Dave Chappelle & Killjoy Comedy with Jalylah Burrell, Bambi Haggins, & Maggie Hennefeld
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Mark Twain, James Redpath, & The Vigilante Origins of American Police
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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The New Black Gothic & Lovecraft Country with Sheri-Marie Harrison
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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American Humor & Matters of Empire with Judith Yaross Lee
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Elmira Correctional Facility & The Prison Fix with Andrea Morrell
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Mark Twain, The World, & Susan K. Harris
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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The Viral Reprinting of Mark Twain's Hawaii Jokes & Mark Twain Meets Dracula
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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James Redpath, Bleeding Kansas, & The Networks of Disunion
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Oct 12, 2020 |