My friend John Miller very graciously invited me to record a conversation with him for the Great Books podcast for the National Review. You can find it here. Or on Spotify:
Or on Apple Podcasts:
For entertainment as much as for the all-American habit of lifelong learning, you should consider subscribing to John’s podcast. It’s free & he has many wonderful guests on to talk about many interesting stories. Two very different but very interesting recent subjects were all-American novelists: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, on the Western side, & John Dos Passos’s Midcentury on the cityfied side. Genre fiction & the avant-garde, a bestseller & one of the literary canon.
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Tender is the night
I went to Hillsdale to give a lecture at the beginning of the month. I had the chance to do a few other things there, besides enjoying the lovely campus & some time to meet my friends there. One thing was recording a Great Books podcast with John Miller—upcoming, I’ll post a link when it’s published. I offered up a few options, John lit up at the mentio…