Literary Nomads

By Steve Chisnell

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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 to understanding!

Episode Date
Writing Back: Guerilla Texts, BTS, and Gaye
May 16, 2026
The Ethics of Reading: Frictional Thoughts
May 11, 2026
Roman Plow, Sovereign Tree: Seneca and Zhuangzi
May 01, 2026
The Original Omelas: The Case of the Animals vs. Man
Apr 21, 2026
The Tyranny of Chance: Assis, Borges, and the Randomized Bargain
Apr 14, 2026
Waypoint – “The Fortune Teller”
Apr 10, 2026
Failures of Imagination: We and Flatland
Apr 03, 2026
Utopia’s Spare Parts: Star Trek & Ishiguro
Mar 21, 2026
The Architecture of the Dungeon: Toni Morrison and the 13th Amendment
Mar 01, 2026
Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange and the Sovereign Center
Feb 21, 2026
The Bureaucracy of Erasure: Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
Feb 13, 2026
Words from Nigeria 3 – Emezi’s Pet & Hunters for Truth
Jan 30, 2026
Words from Nigeria Pt 2: Soyinka’s Tiger & Brother Jero
Jan 24, 2026
Words from Nigeria Pt 1: Adichie and the Literary Manifesto
Jan 16, 2026
Cassandra: Uncertain Steps
Jan 09, 2026
Writing Back: Letters to Humanity
Dec 27, 2025
The Great Societies: Lowry’s “The Giver”
Dec 19, 2025
The Great Societies, Pt 2: Metropolis & The Ways of Meaning
Dec 12, 2025
Is All Art Political? The Great Societies, Pt. 1: Metropolis
Dec 05, 2025
True Horror: Le Guin, Poe, Cavarero, Bataille, and Arendt
Nov 28, 2025
Poe: Horror, Pathology, and the Necessity of Care
Nov 21, 2025
The Hideous Heart – Poe’s Aesthetic of Accountability
Nov 08, 2025
Waypoint – “The Imp of Perversity”
Oct 31, 2025
Waypoint – “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Oct 28, 2025
Literary Nomads for Teachers
Oct 11, 2025
Literary Nomads for Students
Oct 03, 2025
Literary Nomads for Readers
Sep 26, 2025
Le Guin – What I Carry With Me
Sep 19, 2025
Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
Sep 12, 2025
Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin
Sep 05, 2025
Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth
Aug 31, 2025
Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness
Aug 23, 2025
Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
Aug 15, 2025
Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias
Aug 08, 2025
In Defense of Fantasy
Aug 01, 2025
Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
Jul 25, 2025
Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
Jul 18, 2025
Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
Jul 11, 2025
Otium and The Moral Philosopher – William James
Jul 04, 2025
Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium
Jun 27, 2025
Vaster Than Empires – Le Guin
Jun 20, 2025
Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint
Jun 13, 2025
Trailer: Journey 6
May 30, 2025
What I Get Wrong
May 23, 2025
Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
May 16, 2025
Bellow Seizes Our Day
May 09, 2025
Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
May 02, 2025
Carpe All Over the Place
Apr 25, 2025
Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
Apr 18, 2025
Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
Apr 11, 2025
Writing Back: Answering Marvell
Apr 04, 2025
Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting
Mar 28, 2025
Dorian Gray and Difficult Conversations
Mar 21, 2025
Reading and Living in Uncertainty
Mar 14, 2025
What I Carry With Me
Mar 07, 2025
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
Feb 28, 2025
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
Feb 21, 2025
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
Feb 14, 2025
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
Feb 07, 2025
Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
Jan 31, 2025
An Introduction and Irony
Jan 24, 2025
Unwoven Interview #3: Poet Kelly Porter
Jan 17, 2025
Unwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski
Jan 10, 2025
Unwoven Interview #1: Dr. Jessica Manuel
Jan 04, 2025
Trailer: Literary Nomads
Dec 28, 2024
Waypoint – The Shadow
Dec 20, 2024
Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
Dec 21, 2023
Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier
Dec 21, 2022
Pearson’s Archetypes
Jan 15, 2022
Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”
Dec 23, 2021
Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4
Dec 04, 2021
The Original
Nov 26, 2021
Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3
Nov 19, 2021
False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil
Nov 12, 2021
Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2
Nov 05, 2021
Intentional Fowls and Fallacies
Oct 29, 2021
WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
Oct 22, 2021
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1
Oct 15, 2021
Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
Oct 01, 2021
Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
Sep 20, 2021
The Waywords Podcast Trailer
Aug 11, 2021