In the bonus episode on Nabokov's Pale Fire, Kylie and Dan discuss what characterizes Nabokov's sentence-level style. Then, they debut The NewlyReads game, a passage identification quiz designed to test the knowledge of the host who chose the novel under discussion. Can Dan identify which one of three passages comes from Pale Fire, and earn bonus points for ID-ing the authors of the other two passages? Can you, dear listener?  Check out our Instagram page @thenewlyreads to see the quiz passages. Drop us a line at thenewlyreads@gmail.com to tell us how you did! We'll be back in two ..read more

Dan Makes Kylie read Jarett Kobek's scree against our contemporary moment. Dan explains why I Hate the Internet is a valuable reflection of the way internet discourse has broken all of our brains, and Kylie attempts to process her frustration with Kobek's means to communicate his message ..read more

It's a podcast with a face! This week, Kylie has Dan read an author known with putting human faces on any old thing and calling it scary. Which, strangely, works every time.  ..read more

Kylie takes on another NewlyReads Game. New stakes are introduced and street pennies are argued over.  ..read more

Kylie makes Dan read Hurston's beautiful short novel about a woman chasing her horizon. They discuss Hurston's reputation with her contemporaries, the novel's engagement with Transcendentalist ideas, and why it's so frequently taught in American literature courses.  ..read more

In this freewheeling bonus episode, Kylie and Dan assess Jarett Kobek's claim in I Hate the Internet that "the good novel, as an idea, was created by the Central Intelligence Agency." Kylie summarizes her dissertation research on the relationship between the American intelligence community and American fiction, Dan comes up with some wild metaphors, and they both weigh in on whether the CIA's influence on literary production prevented authors from developing new forms or ideas. Plus, a spontaneous NewlyReads Game and Dan's infamous T.S. Eliot impression! An incomplete bibliography o ..read more

Dan Makes Kylie read Jarett Kobek's scree against our contemporary moment. Dan explains why I Hate the Internet is a valuable reflection of the way internet discourse has broken all of our brains, and Kylie attempts to process her frustration with Kobek's means to communicate his message ..read more

As a bonus episode accompanying last week's discussion of Women in Love, Dan tests Kylie's knowledge of D.H. Lawrence's sentence level style with another installation of The NewlyReads Game!  Check out our Instagram @thenewlyreads if you want to read the passages and test your close-reading knowledge before we reveal the answers, or drop us a line at thenewlyreads@gmail.com to tell us how you did ..read more

Kylie makes Dan read D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1920). Together, they discuss the novel's place in the Modernist canon, explore its depiction of a restrictive and generally doomed  Britain in the wake of WWI and industrialization, and acknowledge that sometimes you really do have to karate chop a demonic rabbit.  Follow us on Instagram @thenewlyreads or drop us a line at thenewlyreads@gmail.com !  ..read more

In the bonus episode on Nabokov's Pale Fire, Kylie and Dan discuss what characterizes Nabokov's sentence-level style. Then, they debut The NewlyReads game, a passage identification quiz designed to test the knowledge of the host who chose the novel under discussion. Can Dan identify which one of three passages comes from Pale Fire, and earn bonus points for ID-ing the authors of the other two passages? Can you, dear listener?  Check out our Instagram page @thenewlyreads to see the quiz passages. Drop us a line at thenewlyreads@gmail.com to tell us how you did! We'll be back in two ..read more