Co-hosted by Christian Lorentzen, Vincenzo Barney, and Clementine Ford.
Quality Lit Game
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Co-hosted by Christian Lorentzen, Vincenzo Barney, and Clementine Ford.
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10/13/2025
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March 23, 2026
EPISODE 13: SQUIRREL HOUR
<p>On a wholesome episode of a new podcast, co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen turn to Vladimir Nabokov’s 1957 novel Pnin. Topics discussed include the theme of the holy fool; how to write about an innocent man when you’ve just written about a monster; etymology; living in a language other than the one you were born into; teaching a language you don’t know how to speak; genres; the campus novel; malapropisms; meanness; sweetness; cuteness; Upstate New York; John Updike; Edmund Wilson; Charlotte Bronte; Cervantes; the philosophy of gesture; bowls; bubblers; shadow-tails; soccer balls; bipolar disorder queens; Wilhelm Reich; the Kinsey Report; infidelity; unequal love; earth fathers; water fathers; how long novels should be; serialization; selling out; renting a room; parties; panic attacks; pyrographic screens; ophthalmology; cruelty; the Holocaust; zippers; the many manifestations of the squirrel; and much more. Thank you for listening.</p>
February 20, 2026
EP. 12: DOGVILLE, ON "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"
<p>On yet another episode of a new podcast given over to the dubious subject of controversial cinematic literary adaptations, co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen review the new film “Wuthering Heights” by Emerald Fennel and the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Topics discussed include camp; the gothic; the erotic; Catherine Earnshaw and Mr. Heathcliff; Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi; ribbons; The Kissing Booth; When Eight Bells Toll; Anthony Hopkins; amphibious spies; James Bond; Laurence Olivier; piracy; mysterious sources of wealth; earrings; sado-masochism; costumes; mansions; Charli XCX; dogs and their execution via hanging; public hangings of humans as a source of communal arousal; Jane Austen; the Lintons, Edgar and Isabella; the Grange; haunted houses; clanging radiators; whether "Wuthering Heights" is superior to Hamnet; and much more. </p>
January 6, 2026
EP. 10: AN AFTERNOON IN THE DARK FT. A.S. HAMRAH
<p>On the raucous tenth episode of a new podcast, n+1 film critic A.S. Hamrah joins co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen to talk about his new books <a href="https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/algorithm-of-the-night-by-a-s-hamrah?srsltid=AfmBOoqboJw8SDzci_jMdKtyl2ed7WFkejylCH8ibtXvtqCFQV5xfeO3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing 2018-2024</a> <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635902686/last-week-in-end-times-cinema/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">and Last Week in End Times Cinema.</a> Topics discussed include the beautifully lit movie screens of New York City; Amy Adams; Hillbilly Elegy; MTV girls; Amazon propaganda; aliens and their anatomy; giant baskets full of gourmet cheese; bribery and backlash; Trumpist cinema; Nocturnal Animals; Bidenist cinema and whether such a thing existed; Megalopolis; The Cotton Club; Apocalypse Now; The Godfather Part III; One From the Heart; Garden of Stone; Francis Ford Coppola; whether a film can also be admirable and “a failure”; Hollywood studio propaganda against auteurs and the trade magazines that publish it; Bond villains; Yaphet Kotto; Christopher Lee; James Stewart; biopics and their recent proliferation; farmhands of Lunenberg, Massachusetts, and their taste in movies; whether popularity indicates quality or the opposite; the effects of time on films’ reputations; Sinners; One Battle after Another; Hamnet; the Paris Theater; Noah Baumbach; Whit Stillman; Martin Scorsese; Chloé Zhao; David Fincher; the effects of location on the film-going experience; Christopher Nolan; setting The Odyssey in the Greater Boston Area; Quentin Tarantino; Gaza; the IDF; good and evil; revenge; whether in the future corporate publishers will publish literature and Hollywood studios will make movies; and much more. Thank you for listening.</p>
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