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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: 10.1 "Extreme Circumstances, Extreme Reactions:â Aaron Gwyn and Sean McCann (JP)
Description: ï»żAaron Gwyn is the author of four novels: The World Beneath, Wynnâs War, and, most recently, two wonderfully linked historical novels, All Godâs Children, which won the Oklahoma Book award, and The Cannibal Owl. In his conversation with Sean McCann of Wesleyan (A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism) and Novel Dialogueâs own John Plotz, we learn that Robert Lemmons is a real historical figure and so is Levi English.One way to grasp Gwynâs achievement is to consider the contrast...