Andromeda Strain, Love Story, & 100 Years of Solitude: First-Line Book Club
AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast08/24/19 • 41 min
Introduce yourself to “It” books of 1970 with a book-club discussion of first pages of Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain, Erich Segal's Love Story, and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Texts/Authors also mentioned in passing: Jurassic Park (book and movie), Congo (book and movie), ER (television series), Love Story (movie), Over Her Dead Body (literary theory), Clarissa, Lolita, The Scarlet Letter, As I Lay Dying, Edgar Allen Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” (essay), Hillary Clinton’s What Happened (memoir), Stephanie Coontz, from NYTimes, “For Women, Redefining Marriage,” Maya Angelou, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Thomas Hardy’s fiction Wessex County, William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Li-Young Lee poems, Slowness, Lady Oracle, Abraham and Isaac story in Genesis, Tina Jordan article in NYTimes: LINK
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08/24/19 • 41 min
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