The Cosmic Library
A podcast by Adam Colman
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30 Episodes
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5.5 The Short Story in the U.S.: Otherworldly Bedtime Stories
Published: 5/22/2024 -
5.4 The Short Story in the U.S.: NYC+MFA+ATL
Published: 5/15/2024 -
5.3 The Short Story in the U.S.: It's Weird
Published: 5/8/2024 -
5.2 The Short Story in the U.S.: Wake Up with Wakefield
Published: 5/1/2024 -
5.1 The Short Story in the U.S.: Introduction
Published: 4/24/2024 -
Season 5 Trailer: The Short Story in the United States
Published: 4/3/2024 -
4.5 The Hall of the Monkey King: Immortality
Published: 7/4/2023 -
4.4 The Hall of the Monkey King: Cinematic Transcendence
Published: 6/27/2023 -
4.3 The Hall of the Monkey King: The Flawed Mind Monkey
Published: 6/20/2023 -
4.2 The Hall of the Monkey King: Lawful Chaos
Published: 6/13/2023 -
4.1 The Hall of the Monkey King: Introduction
Published: 6/6/2023 -
Season 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey King
Published: 5/25/2023 -
3.5 Mosaic Mosaic: You Take It from Here
Published: 5/10/2022 -
3.4 Mosaic Mosaic: Struggling with Disaster
Published: 5/3/2022 -
3.3 Mosaic Mosaic: Dream Interpretation
Published: 4/26/2022 -
3.2 Mosaic Mosaic: Laws of Emotion
Published: 4/19/2022 -
3.1 Mosaic Mosaic: Introduction
Published: 4/12/2022 -
Season 3 Trailer: Introducing Mosaic Mosaic
Published: 4/6/2022 -
2.5 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Inconclusion
Published: 12/7/2021 -
2.4 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Survival
Published: 11/30/2021
The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three journeyed through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In season four, we considered Journey to the West. For season five, we talk about a kind of writing that's filled many massive books: the American short story.