New Books in Literary Studies
New Books Network
4.7from 49 ratings
- 2,718
- Episodes
- 107
- Transcribed
- 49
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
- 243
- YouTube views
About New Books in Literary Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
- Publisher
- New Books Network
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 May 2010
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
107 of 2,718 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Taking Apart a Metaphor: Dan Sinykin and Sarah Brouillette on the Literary Ecosystem
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
In Praise of Agnes Heller (1919-2019)
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh (Syracuse UP, 2026)
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Taking Apart a Metaphor: Dan Sinykin and Sarah Brouillette on the Literary Ecosystem
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think that's in a way the fundamental question that my research has been motivated by recently. And I think that It's figuring out the precise kind of like chain of determination that's really motivated me because I didn't feel comfortable saying social media is causing X. I wanted to think about, well, what's causing social media? And I became just really interested in the dynamic of platformization and its dependence on the extraction of content with the payment of as little as possible, basically. And also, it's ways of intensifying and speeding up the work of creative production. And this seemed to me to provide the opportunity to make a kind of historical argument about what was distinct in some ways about our cultural moment, because when, and I'm sure, Dan, you can relate to this, when I first started talking about, you know, decline in literary value and decline in author's pay, like everyone always says, well, first of all, no one's doing it for the money. […]
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- Dan Sinykin
- Sarah Brouillette
- Amanda Batarseh
- Lynne Tillman
- Venita Blackburn
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- 243
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- 4.6 / 5
- 26 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 23 ratings
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