Summer Reading with the Diehls

About Summer Reading with the Diehls

Husband and wife Adam and Whitney Diehl team up to discuss a classic work of literature each Summer. Season 1 covers William Faulkner’s 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!. Season 2 covers Flannery O’Connor’s 1965 short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Season 3 covers Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1878 doorstop The Brothers Karamazov. Season 4 covers Virginia Woolf’s 1925 day-in-the-life novel Mrs. Dalloway.

Publisher

Adam & Whitney Diehl

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jul 2020

Latest episode

4 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Aug 2025

   Season 5 Episode 6: What The Hollow Men Said

   In this episode of The T. S. Eliot Experience, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the first post-Waste Land poem "The Hollow Men," as well as the last section of "The Waste Land": What the Thunder Said.

2. 

   4 Aug 2025

   Season 5 Episode 5: Death by Gerontion

   On episode 5 of The T.S. Eliot Experience, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the "little old man" of a poem "Gerontion" alongside parts III & IV of "The Waste Land": The Fire Sermon + Death by Water.

3. 

   4 Aug 2025

   Season 5 Episode 4: Prelude to a Rhapsody on a Fire Sermon

   On this episode of The T.S. Eliot Experience, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the pre-conversion poems "The Preludes" and "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." They also tackle part 3 of "The Waste Land": "The Fire Sermon."

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 10 / 100

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Quality

7

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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