Chris Parsons

Associate Professor of English Education at Keene State College; admittedly predictable impulses to do podcasts about books are my own

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

@EnglishKSC’s Keene on Books is back with a new episode on @Miranda_July's novel All Fours: https://t.co/iv8w74oGuY. Features @KeeneMasonLib's Celia Rabinowitz and @KSC_C4W's Molly Parsons. Discussing the NYC book of the summer in New Hampshire in January is our BRAND.

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Happy 2025 from @EnglishKSC’s Keene on Books! New episode on @minjinlee11 ’s novel Pachinko: https://t.co/iv8w74pekw. Features @KeeneState_ JEDI Faculty Fellow/biblical scholar Cindy Cheshire and @KSC_C4W's Molly Parsons. Start the year with an excellent book and a good listen.

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

Check out @EnglishKSC Keene on Books episode on Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by @Monkeypaw's Jordan Peele: https://t.co/iv8w74pekw. @KSC_C4W's @MosesJFisher, @kirstiannesandy, Kyla Culver, and I work to be scared but in an academic way.

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

New @EnglishKSC Keene on Books episode on Kaveh Akbar's 2024 novel, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar with @KeeneMasonLib's @cerabinowitz and @KSC_C4W's Molly Parsons: https://t.co/pi2fxgxFwU. Book dream interludes feature Lisa Simpson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and President Invective.

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

New @EnglishKSC Keene on Books episode on Emma Cline's 2023 novel, The Guest, with English Dept Chair @kirstiannesandy and KSC English major, Kyla Culver: https://t.co/pi2fxgydms. A must-listen before your next trip to the Hamptons!

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@EnglishKSC Keene on Books returns with an episode on @NK_Adjei's 2023 novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars with @KeeneMasonLib's @cerabinowitz and @KSC_C4W's Molly Parsons: https://t.co/iv8w74pekw. Amazing book. Been talking about it for a year - got Molly and Celia to record this time.

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

@EnglishKSC's Keene on Books returns with an episode on Zadie Smith's 2023 novel, The Fraud, with @KeeneState_ profs @BillStroup and @kirstiannesandy: https://t.co/pi2fxgydms. Just in time for the holidays -- and all those year-end best book lists featuring The Fraud.

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

@EnglishKSC's Keene on Books offers a romance novel double feature with Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler and Ruby Dixon's When She Purrs: https://t.co/pi2fxgydms. Joined by @KeeneState_ Profs @amberldavisson and @MeriemPages. Romance genre conventions + blushing!

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

Can't wait! For the lecture (of course) but also to be time-machined back to my @CarletonCollege @SecondLaird English 110 class with Prof Shuffleton 20 years ago. Non-zero chance I start involuntarily reciting the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales...

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

@EnglishKSC's Keene on Books first episode of the new school year, on @pronounced_ing's novel Our Missing Hearts: https://t.co/iv8w74pekw. Joined by Director of @KeeneMasonLib's @cerabinowitz and Asst Dir of @KSC_C4W Molly Parsons. Rainy day @KeeneState_; good day for a book!

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

Standing room only crowds for Brinda @toadstoolbooks are just the norm now! When the book (and the human who wrote it) are just that good...

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@Egangoonsquad @EnglishKSC @e_r_sharpe @KSC_C4W So sincerely, it was a pleasure -- our favorite thing we did that day, for sure!

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

@EnglishKSC's Keene on Books returns with a conversation about @Egangoonsquad's novel, The Candy House: https://t.co/tk4vs0xa8b. Joined by fellow Egan fans ENG Dept Chair @e_r_sharpe and @KSC_C4W's Asst Dir Molly Parsons. You too can mumble threats of 'eluding' social media!

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

Back again so soon. @EnglishKSC's Keene on Books continues the early summer podcast deluge with a conversation on the 2023 @EdgarAwards winner for best novel, @danyakukafka's Notes on an Execution: https://t.co/kn9grklkxC. Joined by professors @amberldavisson and Meriem Pages.

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Shock drop. Keene on Books from @EnglishKSC is back with a podcast on @elizmccracken's The Hero of This Book: https://t.co/pi2fxgydms. Joined by Dean of @KeeneMasonLib, @cerabinowitz and Brinda Charry, English prof and author of the new novel, The East Indian.

[The Keene Sentinel @Keene_Sentinel]

Brinda Charry's "The East Indian" hit bookshelves earlier this month and has been met with critical acclaim. https://t.co/FzKOcGFHTi

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New @EnglishKSC Keene on Books podcast w/ Prof @amberldavisson and Prof Meriem Pages is a double-dip: Sylvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic and Megan Giddings's Lakewood. Horror+fungus+clinical drug trails=https://t.co/Tvg6waaCt0. @KeeneMasonLib @KeenePLibrary @toadstoolbooks

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New @EnglishKSC Keene on Books podcast on @lydia_millet's A Children's Bible w/ Dean of @KeeneMasonLib @cerabinowitz and @KSC_C4W Asst Dir Molly Parsons: https://t.co/Tvg6waaCt0. If there's not a Millet fan club, we found it. Join us. @BillStroup @e_r_sharpe @KeenePLibrary

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[Wayne/Garth voice] Bonus! 2 new @EnglishKSC Keene on Books podcasts: Kate Atkinson's Transcription w/ Campus Minister @wages_of_cyn and Tana French's The Searcher w/ @KSC_C4W Asst Dir Molly Parsons😍 (https://t.co/Tvg6waaCt0). @e_r_sharpe @BillStroup @cerabinowitz @KeeneMasonLib

[Chris Parsons @cmparson1]

[DJ Khaled voice] Another one! New Keene on Books podcast from @EnglishKSC: Cheryl Savageau, 2020 Joyce Lecturer in Native American Studies @KeeneState_ , and her memoir Out of the Crazywoods (https://t.co/TrV4YhJkCg). @e_r_sharpe @KSC_C4W @BillStroup @cerabinowitz @KeeneMasonLib