Keene on Books
A podcast from the Keene State College English Department. We choose a book that is interesting to someone for some reason. Then we’ll talk about it and hopefully get somewhere fun
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Episodes
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Keene on Books returns with a romance novel double feature with Casey McQuiston's 2022 novel I Kissed Shara Wheeler and Ruby Dixon's 2020 novel When She Purrs. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Amber Davisson, Professor and Chair of Communication and Philosophy and Meriem Pagès, Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Forum. Come for the break down of the genre conventions of romance; stay for the blushing.
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Keene on Books returns with a podcast discussing Celeste Ng's 2022 novel, Our Missing Hearts. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Celia Rabinowitz, Director of Mason Library and Molly Parsons, Assistant Director of the Center for Research and Writing. Get thee to a library!
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Keene on Books returns with a podcast discussing Jennifer Egan's 2022 novel, The Candy House. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Emily Robins Sharpe, Chair of the English Department, and Molly Parsons, Assistant Director of the Center for Research and Writing.
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Keene on Books returns with a podcast discussing Danya Kukafka's 2022 novel, Notes on an Execution. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Amber Davisson, Professor and Chair in the Communication Department and Meriem Pagès, Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Forum.
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
No fiction: Keene on Books returns with a podcast discussing Elizabeth McCracken's 2022 novel, The Hero of This Book. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Celia Rabinowitz, Director of Mason Library and Brinda Charry, Professor of English and author of the recently released novel, The East Indian.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books discusses Lydia Millet's 2020 novel, A Children's Bible. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Celia Rabinowitz, Director of Mason Library, and Molly Parsons, Assistant Director of the KSC Center for Research and Writing. Biblical allusions welcome.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books goes full superfan and discusses Tana French's 2012 mystery novel, Broken Harbor. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by two KSC Professors of English: Brinda Charry and Meriem Pages. We hear it in the walls sometimes, too.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books discusses Edward St. Aubyn's 2017 novel, Dunbar, an entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare's novelized retellings of the plays. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Brinda Charry, novelist, Shakespeare scholar, and KSC Professor of English. We do a top three list of our favorite movie adaptations of Shakespeare; teen movies and Bollywood are well represented.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books discusses China Mieville's 2011 novel, Embassytown. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by John Slefinger, KSC Lecturer in English and American Studies. Keywords? Aliens. Linguistics.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books discusses Moshin Hamid's 2017 novel, Exit West. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Director of Mason Library, Celia Rabinowitz. Magical doors in this one -- but not to Narnia.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books discusses Jess Friedman's 2017 book of prose poetry, Floating Tales. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by the author himself, Jeff Friedman, as well as KSC student Ashley Rollend.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Keene on Books discusses Toni Morrison's final novel, God Help the Child (2015). Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Braema Mathiaparanam, the 2019 Global Fellow in Keene State’s HGS program and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, and Judy Gannon, Mason Library Circulation Assistant.