SUBTEXT Literature and Film Podcast
Hosted by Erin and Wes · Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh
4.9from 454 ratings
- 175
- Episodes
- 88
- Transcribed
- 454
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About SUBTEXT Literature and Film Podcast
Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our lives in such a significant way.
- Publisher
- Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh
- Category
- arts · arts · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
88 of 175 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“First Death in Nova Scotia,” Part 2)
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A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“First Death in Nova Scotia”)
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A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“The Moose,” Part 2)
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A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“First Death in Nova Scotia,” Part 2)
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And in the social dynamics, it's certainly that idea that he's off to the royal heaven or might be off to royal heaven seems to be implicit. But yeah, so you seem to like the reading that she's been told that. I don't know which I prefer, but I think it's interesting that it's so immediately refuted with that but. So it's almost as though she's been told this. And then that's the moment when the reality of this hits her, as we've been leading up to, that she finally understands what's gone on here and what's impossible here. She looks out and realizes, wait a minute, this story that she's either invented or that she's been given by the mother can't be true. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 264 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 190 ratings
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- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts SUBTEXT Literature and Film Podcast?
Erin and Wes host the show. Published by Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh.
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