This week, Travis and Amanda discuss and analyze the first half of UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY, a scientific and philosophical exploration by Robert Macfarlane. Grab your sturdiest miner's helmet and your finest spelunking ropes because we are headed deep underground for some scientific, philosophical, and literary explorations. Macfarlane's intellectual interests -- like his journeys across Europe -- are fairly diffuse, so it's best to come to this book with an open mind. If you do, you will be rewarded with beautiful, even rhapsodic, prose and a bevy (Amanda would say an onslaught) of scientific facts. We're taking the train from the arctic circle down to the Mediterranean, so join us as we consider the many allures that the "underland" offers humankind.
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This week, Travis and Amanda discuss and analyze the first half of UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY, a scientific and philosophical exploration by Robert Macfarlane. Grab your sturdiest miner's helmet and your finest spelunking ropes because we are headed deep underground for some scientific, philosophical, and literary explorations. Macfarlane's intellectual interests -- like his journeys across Europe -- are fairly diffuse, so it's best to come to this book with an open mind. If you do, you will be rewarded with beautiful, even rhapsodic, prose and a bevy (Amanda would say an onslaught) of scientific facts. We're taking the train from the arctic circle down to the Mediterranean, so join us as we consider the many allures that the "underland" offers humankind.
Book Rec: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
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Book Rec: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
This week, Travis and Amanda recommend SEA OF TRANQUILITY, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel. Mandel is back with another novel (after the much acclaimed STATION ELEVEN) that further explores pandemics...kind of. In its attempt at "soft," human-centered science fiction, this novel tones the intensity down almost to a mute. While juggling multiple story lines across a span of 500 years, Mandel spreads her interests -- and especially her style -- a bit thin. Listen in as we consider what happens when one of the most heightened and "genre-y" premises of science fiction is somehow, and almost impressively, dulled.
The Lightly Literary Podcast
This week, Travis and Amanda discuss and analyze the first half of UNDERLAND: A DEEP TIME JOURNEY, a scientific and philosophical exploration by Robert Macfarlane. Grab your sturdiest miner's helmet and your finest spelunking ropes because we are headed deep underground for some scientific, philosophical, and literary explorations. Macfarlane's intellectual interests -- like his journeys across Europe -- are fairly diffuse, so it's best to come to this book with an open mind. If you do, you will be rewarded with beautiful, even rhapsodic, prose and a bevy (Amanda would say an onslaught) of scientific facts. We're taking the train from the arctic circle down to the Mediterranean, so join us as we consider the many allures that the "underland" offers humankind.
