Great American Novel

33 Episodes

1. Episode 33: Pulling Out the Mote in Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD

   Published: 5/18/2025
2. Episode 32: Watching the Flames from Slaughterhouse-Five

   Published: 2/24/2025
3. Episode 31: Crossing the Country with Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD

   Published: 1/12/2025
4. Episode 30: Sailing on the SHIP OF FOOLS

   Published: 11/10/2024
5. Episode 29: Rallying Around the Flag in Stephen Crane's THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

   Published: 8/11/2024
6. Episode 28: Falling off the Cliff with The Catcher in the Rye

   Published: 5/30/2024
7. Episode 27: Filtering the Static in Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE

   Published: 4/21/2024
8. Episode 26: Seekers of the Lonely Heart: Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

   Published: 3/7/2024
9. Episode 25: Surmising the Motives in Henry James's THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

   Published: 1/13/2024
10. Episode 24: Speeding Down the Highway with PLAY IT AS IT LAYS by Joan Didion

    Published: 11/3/2023
11. Episode 23: Hearing Voices in William Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING

    Published: 10/7/2023
12. Episode 22: Rambling Along the REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

    Published: 8/7/2023
13. Defining Dignity through Service in Ernest J. Gaines' A LESSON BEFORE DYING

    Published: 6/3/2023
14. Episode 20: Cracking Through the Scrub with THE YEARLING

    Published: 4/12/2023
15. Episode 19: Riding the Rocket with Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

    Published: 3/3/2023
16. Episode 18: We Want to Fly Away with Chopin's THE AWAKENING

    Published: 1/3/2023
17. Ep 17: Pursuing the Picaro in Saul Bellow's THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH

    Published: 12/12/2022
18. Episode 16: Classics of American Noir

    Published: 11/2/2022
19. Searching for the Ghost of Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH

    Published: 9/1/2022
20. Episode 14: Ride into the sun--Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN

    Published: 7/11/2022