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SlantCast

The Official Podcast of Slant Books

Online book launches, readings, conversations about a wide range of literary topics -- welcome to SlantCast, the official podcast of Slant Books. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres. Slant books are marked by the kind of meticulous craft and passion for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.

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54 episodes

  1. #53: The Page & The Screen: Literature & Film/TV 1:20:22
  2. #53: The Page & The Screen: Literature & Film/TV 1:20:22
  3. #52: Book Launch for "Carnaval" 58:26
  4. #51: Book Launch for "Miller Cane" 1:02:08
  5. #50: Is There a Reading Crisis? 1:08:12
  6. #49: Book Launch Event for "Against Certainty" 58:17
  7. #48: Made for Each Other: Indie Bookstores & Indie Presses 1:00:13
  8. #47: Book Launch Event for "Sing Me a Song, She Said" 1:06:47
  9. #46: Book Launch Event for "Light in the Canyon" 56:56
  10. #45: The Role of the Small Press 1:03:39
  11. #44: Book Launch Event for "Time & the Temple" 1:08:11
  12. #43: Book Launch for "What's Possible" 55:40
  13. #42: The Art of the Review 58:10
  14. #41: Book Launch Event for "Invisibilia" 1:13:48
  15. #40: Book Launch Event for "The Future of Love" 1:02:25
  16. #39: What is "Humanism"? 1:00:13
  17. #38: What Literature Tells Us about the Need for Community 1:06:36
  18. #37: Book Launch Event for "James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette" 57:17
  19. #36: "What is Close Reading?" 1:11:25
  20. #35: Book Launch Event for "Brooding Upon the Waters" 1:02:44
  21. #34: Book Launch Event for "Invited to the Feast" 1:06:00
  22. #33: Book Launch Event for "Child of These Tears" 1:02:57
  23. #32: Book Launch Event for "The Grand Valley" 1:06:22
  24. #31: Book Launch Event for "Vanishments" 1:16:50
  25. #30: Book Launch Event for "For Now, We Have Been Spared" 1:03:43
  26. #29: Book Launch Event for "Spirto Gentil" 1:02:25
  27. #28: Book Launch Event for "Your Names Are Written in Heaven" 1:05:41
  28. #27: Book Launch Event for "In Search of the Human Face" 1:02:36
  29. #26: Book Launch Event for "The Flight from Meaning" 52:52
  30. #25: Book Launch Event for "Featherless" 53:31
  31. #24: Book Launch Event for "We Shall Not All Sleep" 58:28
  32. #23: Book Launch Event for "Correspondence with My Greeks" 1:03:33
  33. #22: Book Launch Event for "Whole: A Novel" 1:11:14
  34. #21: Book Launch Event for "Gather the Olives" with Bret Lott 1:10:23
  35. #20: Book Launch Event for "Matters for You Alone" 58:58
  36. #19: Book Launch Event for "Living the Liturgy" 58:41
  37. #18: Book Launch Event for "Moon Grammar" 56:36
  38. #17: Book Launch Event for "There Will Never Be Another Night Like This" 57:55
  39. #16: Book Launch Event for "Kinderszenen" 1:10:48
  40. #15: Book Launch Event for "Leaping from the Burning Train" 1:01:39
  41. #14: A Conversation about Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse with Jonathan Geltner 1:09:57
  42. #13: Book Launch Event for "Searching for Home" by Robert Pack 1:00:00
  43. #12: Book Launch Event for "Old Songs" with Olga Sedakova, Rowan Williams, & Martha Kelly 1:12:03
  44. #11: Book Launch Event for "Twin A: A Memoir" with Amit Majmudar 1:07:42
  45. #10: Book Launch Event for "Sleeping as Fast as I Can" with Richard Michelson 59:08
  46. #9: A Conversation on "Hunger of Memory" with Author Richard Rodriguez 1:16:59
  47. #8: A Conversation about Cormac McCarthy with Jonathan Geltner 1:22:23
  48. #7: Book Launch Event for "The Mystery of Iniquity" with Daniel Taylor 49:49
  49. #6: Book Launch Event for "The Fate of the Animals" with Morgan Meis 1:03:00
  50. #5: Book Launch Event for "Sister Zero: A Memoir" with Nance Van Winckel & Kate Lebo 1:00:59