Writ Large

A @lyceum original podcast about the books that changed the world, hosted by @zacharysdavis

[Rachel Rueckert @Rachel_Rueckert]

I've been absolutely LEVELED with illness for a week. Infinite tea, a fleet of cough drops, and even antibiotics have not been near as effective as lifting the spirit as this WAYFARE essay on pilgrimage by @zacharysdavis. (1/4)

https://t.co/FIy1tj2z4a

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Quantum mechanics is an unsettling set of discoveries about the nature of reality. But for the Dalai Lama, quantum mechanics is much closer to the Buddhist understanding of the world, where appearance and reality never quite converge.

https://t.co/Xrrob3L650

[Kristian Petersen @BabaKristian]

Great overview on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth from @zacharysdavis' @writlargepod @NewBooksNetwork #podcast in conversation with Manan Ahmed @sepoy
Glosses of decolonization, violence, thingification, Césaire, Gandhi, & the Algerian revolution
https://t.co/QA300clfXa

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Illuminations, a new @ministryofideas series, is now live!

Episode 1 is about the first scientific bestseller, how the fall of Adam led to the scientific revolution, and how the original meanings of science and religion can guide us to a better future.

https://t.co/tAQmnRSBRA

[HAHR21 @HAHR21]

A podcast from @NewBooksNetwork and @writlargepod on Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's classic novel Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, with historian Sidney Chalhoub and translator Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. https://t.co/RtPZozpKHl

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

On Oct 24th, @ministryofideas is launching Illuminations, a new podcast series about the untold friendship of religion and science.

For those in the New England area, please join us for a launch party at @HarvardDivinity 10/24 5:30pm.

More info here 👇

https://t.co/vkOkQr9f2m

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

A crisis of meaning can be painful and wrenching, but as @platospodcasts beautifully describes, these encounters with the abyss can also be moments of rebirth and expansion, where we give up our smaller selves and become something more.

https://t.co/5d2LjxbCZ9

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Making Meaning Episode 3: The Weight of the World

The ideology of capitalism breaks our hearts and blinds us to the source of our most abundant meaning—relationships and solidarity with other people.

Feat. Kathryn Lofton, Dean of Humanities at @Yale.

https://t.co/aOBHvxoqyC

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is famous as a play about nothing, but it has endured because it is in fact a play about life. For what is life but a sequential collection of waitings?

New Writ Large episode featuring the wonderful Peter Connor.

https://t.co/XnAY4NVVeh

[Writ Large @writlargepod]

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[Naully Nicolas @naullyn]

To my #1 podcast of 2021, @writlargepod: thank you for keeping me company on @Spotify all year long! #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/PX9Zlxvpu1

[Writ Large @writlargepod]

@naullyn @Spotify Thank you for listening, Naully!

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

I'm happy to announce a new podcast series I've been working on the last couple of years: Making Meaning

Like many people, the pandemic made asking the big questions of existence feel newly urgent.

Especially the big question: what is life for? How can my life be meaningful?

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Writ Large released its 100th episode today!

A centennial episode has to be special, and it was an easy choice at the end: Hamlet. (Harold Bloom would've haunted me otherwise)

I'm joined by the great Michael Dobson of the @ShakesInstitute.

https://t.co/WReWFnwkAD

[Columbia English & Comparative Literature @EnglishColumbia]

Sarah Cole's book INVENTING TOMORROW: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, was short-listed for the 2021 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.
Cole discussed Wells and The Time Machine on the Writ Large podcast. https://t.co/MQgWYNbuwU

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Don Quixote is the funniest book you will ever read. 400 years old and it still busts a gut!

But as Timothy Hampton discusses in our new @writlargepod episode, it's also a brilliant exploration of the seductive and transformative power of fiction.

https://t.co/127ytY0znG

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

New @ministryofideas episode on the changing nature of national borders and the moral tragedy of America's arbitrary implementation of international refugee laws.

Featuring interviews with @DeborahAnker, @adrian_rennix, and @chowmak.

https://t.co/9G5imDdXXa

[Writ Large @writlargepod]

New episode!

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Proust's In Search of Lost Time totals more than 1.2 million words.

Fortunately, in our new @writlargepod episode, you can hear two brilliant scholars, Elisabeth Ladenson and Michael Lucey, discuss its power and beauty in just under 30 minutes.

https://t.co/6Y1qKb89l2

[Carla Hesse @CarlaHesse1]

Wonderful time talking with Zach Davis about the enduring relevance of this great book. A short listen. Enjoy!

[Writ Large @writlargepod]

New episode out, Candide!

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

You're here on Twitter, so you already know we don't live in the best of all possible worlds.

Nevertheless, you may enjoy listening to @UCBHistory's @CarlaHesse1 discuss why Voltaire's Candide remains a comic and philosophical masterpiece.

https://t.co/gIN5IwtLXi