Novels and Intimacy (with Garth Greenwell & Daniel Wright)

Episode 3 March 22, 2021 01:05:10
Novels and Intimacy (with Garth Greenwell & Daniel Wright)
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Novels and Intimacy (with Garth Greenwell & Daniel Wright)

Mar 22 2021 | 01:05:10

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Show Notes

Novelist Garth Greenwell and scholar Daniel Wright join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels expand our understanding of sex and intimacy in the digital age.

 

In our image-saturated culture, it can be easy to fixate on a surface while overlooking the consciousness—the thinking, feeling subject—under the (pixelated) skin. How can novels, like Barbara Browning’s The Gift, remind us that bodies are, well, embodied?

 

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