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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: "We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Description: Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitableĀ Martin PuchnerĀ (Professor of English and Theater at Harvard, editor of more than one Norton Anthology, and author of many prizewinning books) fromĀ that fabulous RTB episodeĀ about his ādeep historyā of literature and literacy,Ā The Written World. And you know his feelings about Wodehouse from hisĀ Books in Dark Times confessions.Today you get to hear his views on culture as mediation and translation, all the way down. His utterly fascinating new book,Ā Culture: The Story of Us from Cave Art to K PopĀ (Norton, 2023)Ā argues that mediators, translators a...