🏆 It’s Oscars week & literary classics are big, again. @realgdt.bsky.social #Frankenstein and #ChloeZhao’s #Hamnet received multiple nominations. SLOB reviews these adaptations to see if #LiteraryClassics are the winners or losers this Oscars season! 🎧 Out now 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...
🏆🎬 It’s #Oscars season and we’re NOT taking things lightly! With nominations for #Frankenstein and #Hamnet, we knew we had a responsibility as serious lit #podcasters. We've dutifully re-watched the book-to-film adaptations nominated for an Oscar to bring you our unfiltered takes. Out today!
🏆🎬 It’s #Oscars Week & literary classics are big (yet again)! #GuillermoDelToro's #Frankenstein and #ChloeZhao’s #Hamnet received multiple nominations, but what do we really think of these adaptations? 🚨 Spoiler alert: not a fan of THAT Byron quote at the end of Frankenstein.
@amariewomack, one of the world’s leading #ToniMorrison scholars, was not a natural born reader. Yet the first time she read Morrison in high school, she devoured it. This week we’re lucky enough to chat with Autumn on the #SecretLifeOfBooks podcast 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...
As part of our #ToniMorrison series we’re lucky enough to chat with one of the world’s leading Morrison scholars, prof. Autumn Womack. Autumn has spent more time with the Morrison Papers at @princeton.edu than pretty much anyone else – except (maybe) Morrison herself 🎧 Out now.
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This week we're joined in conversation with Autumn Womack, one of the most important #ToniMorrison scholars, to chat about writing the biography of Morrison’s novels and making a landmark exhibition from Toni Morrison’s archives at @princeton.edu!
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New York Times critic John Leonard, began his review of Toni Morrison's #SongOfSolomon by listing other amazing books he’d reviewed… it’s safe to say, the list is impressive:
⭐ #Lolita
⭐ #Catch22
⭐ #TheGoldenNotebook
⭐ #TheTinDrum
⭐ #BulletPark
⭐ #OneHundredYearsOfSolitude
⭐ #TheWomanWarrior
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In #SongOfSolomon (1977), #ToniMorrison chose a male protagonist to retell a deep history of African cultural magic, to create a story that refuses to do anything that readers of American retellings of biblical epics were expecting. 🔗
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The Secret Life of Books has officially been nominated for best #IndiePodcast at the 2026 NYC Podcast Awards! We’re so thrilled to be nominated, thank you @silver-nyc.com 🧡. Head to the #NYCPodcastAwards website to check out the nominees! 🔗 www.silver-nyc.com/nycpodcastaw...
Can you think of any other great uses of names in Toni Morrison's novels? Let us know in the comments!
In the second episode in our series on the great Nobel Laureate #ToniMorrison, we continue the story of how she disrupted virtually all existing expectations of how a Black woman novelist would sound and explore the book that propelled her into mainstream fame.
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In Toni Morrison's third novel #SongOfSolomon, names are highly important. They're also a point of humour -- "Not Doctor Street," for one. Learn more by tuning into the new episode in our #ToniMorrison mini-series on #SecretLifeOfBooks podcast. Out tomorrow!
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#GeorgeEliot had the confidence to call Book 5 of Middlemarch "The Dead Hand" – audacious, given that every book would have been sold separately. But The Dead Hand it is, and readers brave enough to buy the volume were rewarded with many of the best scenes in the novel. #BookSky
We're all about the underdog.. That's why we cannot move on from Emily Bronte's #WutheringHeights without talking about her younger sister Anne, author of the remarkable The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. While Anne is now the least celebrated of the Bronte trio, Tenant was considered the most shocking!
NEW EPISODE: With all the fuss around #WutheringHeights, we’re worried Emily Bronte is getting all the attention. So we're shifting the SLOB-light to her younger sister Anne, author of the remarkable and (at the time) highly-shocking The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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With all the fuss and fanfare around #WutheringHeights, we’re worried Emily Bronte is getting more than her fair share of attention. So today we shift the SLOB-light to her younger sister Anne, author of the remarkable The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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@devoney.bsky.social might be one of the key voices on #JaneAusten, but that doesn't mean she can get her sons on board... So, how exactly do you get kids to read Austen? Listen to the full #podcast episode now: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/j...
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"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked." #JaneAusten
In this special bonus episode we chat Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday celebrations, with guest @devoney.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading Austen scholars, and author of #WildForAusten! 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/j...
Do you listen to the Secret Life of Books podcast? If not, add to the queue. It was a treat to talk Austen's 250th, Wild for Austen, and what's next with brilliant Sophie Gee on the latest episode of SLoB "Jane Austen's Birthday: Everyone Wants to Party with Jane." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
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"Facts are such horrid things!" #JaneAusten
🎂 After celebrating Austen's 250th birthday, we found ourselves wondering what it is about Jane - why this endurance? Who better to chat with on than @devoney.bsky.social, one world’s leading Austen scholars, and author of #WildForAusten!
NEW EPISODE: Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" - worth the hype? Sophie and Jonty decide who are the winners and losers in the Fennell-Robbie-Elordi mash-up adaptation of #EmilyBronte’s novel. Plus, the meaty questions: race, class, sex, abuse &.. pets?
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This week’s episode is a SLOB “Wuthering Heights” watch-party! Out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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🪦 We NEED to talk about the mass elimination of characters. Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights merged some characters, vaporised others, not to mention, we’re missing the whole second half (though there's been talk of a sequel). Still, it’s decided, the loss of Lockwood is great. RIP Lockwood.
