The Custom House
Series produced by WFHB
A weekly discussion of literature beyond the binding.
Each week The Custom House inspects the meaning of our cultural products. Through interviews and close readings we invite our listeners to delve into all manner of creative work from photography and poetry, to music and mathematics to discover new ways to think about our lives.
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Jonathan Elmer, director of Indiana University's College Arts and Humanities Institute discusses Herman Melville's novella, Benito Cereno, a master...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 29:46
This week, Doug speaks with biographer Christoph Irmscher about the legacy of Louis Agassiz, one of the most influential men in the development of ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 29:01
This extended cut includes more biographical details as well as a deeper look at Agassiz's involvement in the so-called Emancipation Commission as ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 41:16
This week Purnima Bose discusses how Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale demonstrates how easily modern America might become a tr...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 27:35
This extended cut includes a review of the plot of the novel, The Handmaid's Tale, as well as a discussion of the cultural milieu in which Atwood c...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 32:36
This extended cut includes a deeper discussion of Wolin's Vietnam book as well as his companion project in which he pursued stories and portraits "...
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 32:08
This week we'll be talking with photographer Jeffrey Wolin about how he integrates the written word into his portraits to make stories that are bot...
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 27:39
We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...
- Added: Jul 06, 2013
- Length: 46:06
We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:26
We explore both the lyrical and ethical heart of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as we ask what are the ecological and moral effects of the banal and...
- Added: Jul 13, 2013
- Length: 29:05
On this episode of The Custom House we examine the many moods and personae of poet Robert Browning, the Victorian master of "selves," whose work no...
- Added: Jul 20, 2013
- Length: 30:56
On this episode of The Custom House we'll use the work of political theorist Hannah Arendt to try to understand how committing heinous crimes again...
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 32:00
On this episode of The Custom House we'll investigate the claims of Milton's Samson as he argues his holy dispensation as a divine right to be viol...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 31:34
On this episode of The Custom House we'll find out how the multifaceted world of the early Jewish literary imagination has been flattened and releg...
- Added: Aug 09, 2013
- Length: 31:08
On this episode of The Custom House we'll try to justify the decision to "go all in" when facing the incomprehensible two inifinites of Blaise Pascal.
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 31:11
Episode 12 – "The Purse Turned Inside Out: Engendering Personalities in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night"
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On this episode of The Custom House we’ll investigate the erotic entanglements of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to try to find out just who wears the...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 29:44
WE like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children’s books. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains a...
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- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
