Here’s a master list of all my “essay chat” podcasts. Below is a list of the essay title on the left and then the guest on the right. Notice that below the list is an embedded link that should display the most recent podcasts overall. “Sometimes Fairy Stories…” Holly Ordway “The Necessity of Chivalry” Bruce Johnson …
CSL Daily 09/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?” The Death of Words (Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 22, 1944 …
CSL Daily 09/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.” On Stories (Published in Of Other Worlds on 9/5/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories edited by Walter Hooper was …
CSL Daily 06/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.” The Novels of Charles Williams (Published in On Stories on 6/24/1982) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was initially published on June 24th in 1982. …
CSL Daily 04/29/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” On Three Ways of Writing for Children (Talk given on 4/29/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Found in On Stories, “On Three Ways of Writing for …
CSL Daily 02/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some one point, invaded by the marvellous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier.’” The Novels of Charles Williams (Talk recorded and aired on 2/11/1949; now …
CSL Daily 09/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?” The Death of Words (Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 22, 1944 …
CSL Daily 09/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.” On Stories (Published in Of Other Worlds on 9/5/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories edited by Walter Hooper was …
CSL Daily 06/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.” The Novels of Charles Williams (Published in On Stories on 6/24/1982) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was initially published on June 24th in 1982. …
CSL Daily 04/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” On Three Ways of Writing for Children (Talk given on 4/29/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Found in On Stories, “On Three Ways of Writing for …