The Cosmic Library

A podcast by Adam Colman

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30 Episodes

  1. 5.5 The Short Story in the U.S.: Otherworldly Bedtime Stories

    Published: 5/22/2024
  2. 5.4 The Short Story in the U.S.: NYC+MFA+ATL

    Published: 5/15/2024
  3. 5.3 The Short Story in the U.S.: It's Weird

    Published: 5/8/2024
  4. 5.2 The Short Story in the U.S.: Wake Up with Wakefield

    Published: 5/1/2024
  5. 5.1 The Short Story in the U.S.: Introduction

    Published: 4/24/2024
  6. Season 5 Trailer: The Short Story in the United States

    Published: 4/3/2024
  7. 4.5 The Hall of the Monkey King: Immortality

    Published: 7/4/2023
  8. 4.4 The Hall of the Monkey King: Cinematic Transcendence

    Published: 6/27/2023
  9. 4.3 The Hall of the Monkey King: The Flawed Mind Monkey

    Published: 6/20/2023
  10. 4.2 The Hall of the Monkey King: Lawful Chaos

    Published: 6/13/2023
  11. 4.1 The Hall of the Monkey King: Introduction

    Published: 6/6/2023
  12. Season 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey King

    Published: 5/25/2023
  13. 3.5 Mosaic Mosaic: You Take It from Here

    Published: 5/10/2022
  14. 3.4 Mosaic Mosaic: Struggling with Disaster

    Published: 5/3/2022
  15. 3.3 Mosaic Mosaic: Dream Interpretation

    Published: 4/26/2022
  16. 3.2 Mosaic Mosaic: Laws of Emotion

    Published: 4/19/2022
  17. 3.1 Mosaic Mosaic: Introduction

    Published: 4/12/2022
  18. Season 3 Trailer: Introducing Mosaic Mosaic

    Published: 4/6/2022
  19. 2.5 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Inconclusion

    Published: 12/7/2021
  20. 2.4 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Survival

    Published: 11/30/2021

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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.