This Craft Of Verse: lectures by Jorge Luis Borges (1967 – 1968)

Recorded in 1967 and 1968, at Harvard, these Jorge Luis Borges lectures on poetry are a wondrous treasure. A part of the long running “Charles Eliot Norton Lectures” the collection is entitled This Craft Of Verse. Introduction |MP3| The Riddle… Read moreThis Craft Of Verse: lectures by Jorge Luis Borges (1967 – 1968)

Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World with Eric Rabkin

Our good friend, Professor Eric S. Rabkin, is teaching one of the free summer Coursera courses. It’s entitled Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World and all of the required readings, except for two of the novels,… Read moreFantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World with Eric Rabkin

Commentary: The Ethics Of Torrents

Look at this screenshot. Just look at it! It’s screenshot of a torrent for an audiobook about ethics. The audiobook in question (one from Recorded Books’ The Modern Scholar series) is entitled Ethics, A History Of Moral Thought. It’s a… Read moreCommentary: The Ethics Of Torrents

Naxos Audiobooks: The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Pit And The Pendulum & Other Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

In lecture #4 of The Teaching Company’s Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature’s Most Fantastic Works professor Eric S. Rabkin argues: “The writing of Edgar Allan Poe has too often been dismissed for reasons that do not hold up under… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Pit And The Pendulum & Other Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

UCSD: LTWL 124 Science Fiction (a university course on SF)

QUICK! grab this podcast and its MP3s before they’re gone forever! LTWL 124 (a first year course in the “Literatures of the World” department) is available now, but not for long. The University of California San Diego, which put out… Read moreUCSD: LTWL 124 Science Fiction (a university course on SF)