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.
This week, Travis and Amanda analyze the first half of THE EMPLOYEES, a novel by Olga Ravn. Despite humanity's impressive foray into interstellar space, problems of labor, consciousness, and attraction abound in this vexing but worthwhile novel. As it beguilingly investigates, humanity can't seem to outrun our troubles if they've been inside of us the entire time! And it certainly doesn't help if your fellow crew members begin to feel inexplicable sexual (and psychological...?) attraction to alien objects. Join us if you're a fan of "weird fiction" or want something a little bit more experimental mixed in with your sci fi.
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.
