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By Brandon Cook

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Excerpts and commentary on great writing

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Episode Date
Brilliant Beginnings: Ulysses
Mar 10, 2026
Brilliant Beginnings: Number9dream
Mar 02, 2026
Brilliant Beginnings: Lolita
Feb 21, 2026
Mythic Images: Ascending the Mountain
Feb 10, 2026
Brilliant Beginnings: Bleak House
Feb 02, 2026
Shakespeare's Most Enigmatic Poem
Jan 14, 2026
War and Peace: The Best Battle Scene
Jan 07, 2026
A Chesterton New Year Reflection!
Dec 30, 2025
Eliot's Death of an Old World
Dec 20, 2025
Enchanting the World with "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Dec 17, 2025
Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"
Dec 05, 2025
John Keats's "To Autumn"
Nov 29, 2025
To Autumn
Nov 28, 2025
In My End is My Beginning
Nov 13, 2025
Holy Tapestry
Nov 10, 2025
I Am Going Away; I Will Come to You
Nov 05, 2025
Seeing Things as They Really Are
Nov 03, 2025
Receive in the Measure you Give
Oct 22, 2025
Choirs of Angels
Oct 20, 2025
Ready for Liftoff
Oct 14, 2025
Reunion with the Allfather
Oct 09, 2025
Examination 2: Hope
Sep 20, 2025
Examination 1: Faith
Sep 13, 2025
Ready to Soar
Sep 12, 2025
Pale Blue Dot
Sep 03, 2025
The Rings of Saturn
Aug 29, 2025
Et tu, Ripheus?
Aug 28, 2025
Who Are You to Judge?
Aug 22, 2025
Mighty to Save
Aug 19, 2025
Taking the Bitter with the Sweet
Aug 15, 2025
How Far the Great Have Fallen
Aug 13, 2025
Warriors of God
Aug 05, 2025
Behold the Wondrous Cross
Jul 31, 2025
Got Wisdom?
Jul 29, 2025
Opposites Attract: Saint Dominic
Jul 24, 2025
Opposites Attract: Saint Francis
Jul 22, 2025
Doctors of the Soul
Jul 17, 2025
Redeemed to Love: The Amorous
Jul 15, 2025
What Do You Want To Be?
Jul 11, 2025
Just Vengeance, Justly Avenged
Jul 09, 2025
Eagles in Flight
Jul 07, 2025
Think Before You Swear: And Other Heavenly Advice
Jul 04, 2025
How to Prepare the Perfect Will
Jul 03, 2025
Oathbreakers
Jul 02, 2025
Theology Ahead: Turn Back Now!
Jul 01, 2025
Heaven: The Final Frontier
Jun 30, 2025
Bleak House Revisited
Jun 26, 2025
Orientalism: A (Blurry) Window to the East
Jun 24, 2025
The Best Christian Novel?
Jun 18, 2025
The Best of the Romans
Jun 16, 2025
The End of the Tale
Jun 13, 2025
Lost in the Forest of Memory
Jun 12, 2025
George Goes Home
Jun 11, 2025
In Other News, Little Demon Girl Explodes
Jun 10, 2025
In the Land of the God of Memory
Jun 09, 2025
Lilac Pilots a Stork
Jun 06, 2025
Memories, Guns, Emperors
Jun 05, 2025
Come Away Little Child...
Jun 04, 2025
In the House of the Underhills
Jun 03, 2025
Can you See the Faces?
Jun 02, 2025
There are Little People
May 30, 2025
The Calm Before the Storm
May 29, 2025
Little Boxes of Time
May 28, 2025
Smoky and Daily Cross a Rainbow
May 27, 2025
Smoky Barnable and the Anonymities
May 26, 2025
"Ulysses" by Alfred Tennyson
May 23, 2025
Allen Tate's "The Mediterranean"
May 22, 2025
"I Am" by John Clare
May 21, 2025
"Shadows" by DH Lawrence
May 20, 2025
The Caged Skylark
May 19, 2025
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street:" Day 8 (Finale)
May 16, 2025
"The Idea of Order at Key West" - Wallace Stevens
May 15, 2025
Sinclair Lewis "Main Street:" Day 7
May 14, 2025
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street" Day 6
May 13, 2025
Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street:" Day 5
May 12, 2025
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street:" Day 4
May 09, 2025
Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
May 08, 2025
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street:" Day 3
May 07, 2025
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street" Day 2
May 06, 2025
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street"
May 05, 2025
Psalms 103 and 104
May 04, 2025
Xingu
May 02, 2025
May Magnificat
May 01, 2025
Edith Wharton: Touchstone
Apr 30, 2025
Ethan Frome
Apr 29, 2025
Edith Wharton Day 1: Ethan Frome
Apr 28, 2025
"Kingdom of Fog"
Apr 26, 2025
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Apr 25, 2025
O Wild West Wind!
Apr 24, 2025
Sketches From a Hunter's Album: Setting
Apr 23, 2025
Sketches from a Hunter's Album: Character
Apr 22, 2025
Sketches From a Hunter's Album: Character
Apr 21, 2025
Ascent: 133 and 134
Apr 21, 2025
Reach for the Stars
Apr 20, 2025
Fall of Man, Fall of Church
Apr 19, 2025
Psalms 131 and 132
Apr 18, 2025
Unbearable Sorrows
Apr 18, 2025
Psalms 129 and 130
Apr 17, 2025
Lady Love at Last
Apr 17, 2025
Symbols on Symbols
Apr 16, 2025
Eden: Redux
Apr 15, 2025
Last Words
Apr 14, 2025
Lusting for Release
Apr 13, 2025
The Violent Delayers: Dante's Purgatorio, Canto 5
Mar 22, 2025
Up the Straight and Narrow Way: Dante's Purgatorio, Canto 4
Mar 21, 2025
Don't delay; be on your way! Dante Purgatorio, Canto 3
Mar 20, 2025
A Heavenly Herald: Dante's Purgatorio Canto 2
Mar 19, 2025
Escape from Hell: Dante's Purgatorio Canto 1
Mar 18, 2025
Songs of Reflection, Psalms of Ascent: Psalms 125, 126
Mar 17, 2025
No Country for Old Men: Yeats's" Sailing to Byzantium"
Mar 17, 2025
Heaven and Deliverance: Psalms of Ascent 123 and 124
Mar 15, 2025
Short story: "The Three and a Half Deaths of Berry Qin" - Brandon Cook
Mar 15, 2025
Nature, Voicing, Stillness: Turgenev's "A Sportsman's Notebook"
Mar 14, 2025
Rhapsody and stylistics: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Poet"
Mar 13, 2025
Espionage and foodgasms: Anthony Burgess's "Tremor of Intent"
Mar 12, 2025
Heartbreak, cliffhangers, insanity: C.S. Lewis's "Till We Have Faces"
Mar 11, 2025
Distorted Love: Lewis's "The Great Divorce" 2
Mar 10, 2025
Lying Lips and Heavenly Jerusalem: Psalms of Ascent 120, 122
Mar 09, 2025
Brandon Cook's "Mountain Whispers"
Mar 08, 2025
Monsters and Mayhem: Moby Dick Finale
Mar 07, 2025
Madness and Missing Boys: Pequod Meets Rachel (Moby Dick 128)
Mar 06, 2025
Madness and Loyalty: Ahab V Starbuck (Moby Dick)
Mar 05, 2025
Madness, Monomania, Metaphysics: The Hunt Begins (Moby Dick Chapter 36)
Mar 04, 2025
Monstrous imagery: Melville's "Maldive Shark"
Mar 03, 2025
Psalms of Ascent: Psalm 121
Mar 02, 2025
Short story: Brandon Cook's "Grace's Feel For Pain"
Mar 01, 2025
Reading, Writing, Speaking: Samuel Johnson's "On Studies"
Feb 28, 2025
Prose stylistics: Francis Bacon's "On Studies"
Feb 27, 2025
Imagery and Transformation: Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
Feb 26, 2025
Insight: C.S. Lewis's "The Great Divorce"
Feb 25, 2025
Hopkins's "Pied Beauty"
Feb 24, 2025
Psalm 34
Feb 23, 2025
Brandon Cook's "Amazing Grace"
Feb 22, 2025
Wordsworth's "The Prelude"
Feb 21, 2025
Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" 2
Feb 20, 2025
Hopkins's "Duns Scotus's Oxford"
Feb 19, 2025
Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" 2
Feb 18, 2025
Shakespeare's "Richard III"
Feb 17, 2025
Psalm 42
Feb 16, 2025
Brandon Cook's "Uniform"
Feb 15, 2025
Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
Feb 14, 2025
Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
Feb 13, 2025
Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"
Feb 12, 2025
Hopkins's "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
Feb 12, 2025
Mitchell's "Black Swan Greene"
Feb 11, 2025
Hopkins's "Inversnaid"
Feb 10, 2025
Psalm 91
Feb 09, 2025
Dickens "Bleak House"
Feb 08, 2025