The Coronavirus Lectures: Recent Episodes
Paisley Rekdal
A discussion about music criticism, nonfiction, and structuring They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us with Hanif Abdurraqib.
Examining the use of photographs in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee.
A discussion of truth, accuracy, persona, and defining literary nonfiction with John D'Agata.
Podcast lecture on Scott McCloud's "Blood in the Gutter," Eula Biss' "No Man's Land," and the braided essay.
This episode examines syntax, and how syntax affects how we judge character. The episode also looks at dialect, accuracy, and problems of appropriation.
An episode that considers what we can learn about scenes, juxtaposition and POV from sports essays.
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich discusses the research, writing, and craft that went into writing The Fact of a Body.