Brandon Chasteen
Brandon Chasteen has a Phd. Abd of English literature, although now he works in land and oil. He's a down-home-Texas boy-made-good who just happens to know everything about literature and literary history and literary theory. He podcasts for The Bookening.
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War and Peace, Part 3
The Bookening argues over which is best–Anna Karenina or War and Peace.
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War and Peace, Part 2
The Bookening offers baggage and initial thoughts on War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
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Russian Christmas Stories
The Bookening talks Christmas stories by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
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Booklist 2020 and Fantasy Draft, Part 1
The Bookening announces their complete booklist for 2020 and does an awesome fantasy draft.
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170. Midnight’s Children, Part 3
The Bookening dives deep into Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.
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168. Midnight’s Children
Now with audio glitch corrected! The Bookening discusses one of the most important books of the latter half of the twentieth century, and one that they are pretty excited to talk about, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Postmodernism, magical realism,... read moreebook just $7.99 (for a limited time)
