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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.
Episodes

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the Emotional Superman Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (aka the Big Stepper) from Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
The Brothers Karamazov Episode VI--Saint Alyosha
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the hero of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
The Brothers Karamazov Episode VII--”That woman” et al.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Married English Teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the women (and sisters?) of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
The Brothers Karamazov Episode VIII ”There are no small parts--only small characters”
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the "minor" characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss "The Grand Inquisitor" and "Ivan's Dream with the Devil" from Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
The Brothers Karamazov Episode X ”An Onion”
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Married English teachers discuss the opening monastery scene, the "onion" scene, and the "most important chapter in the novel," the "Cana at Galilee" scene in Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov. Thank you for listening!!!

Monday Sep 04, 2023
Mrs. Dalloway: The Zero Hour
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
On the zero-dark-thirty episode of Season 4 of Summer Reading with the Diehls, English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl begin their discussion of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.

Monday Sep 04, 2023
Mrs. Dalloway: The First Hour
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
On the second...Hour of Season 4, Adam + Whitney Diehl discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 Novel Mrs. Dalloway.

Monday Sep 04, 2023
Mrs. Dalloway: The Second Hour
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
On the second (or third?) Hour of Season 4, Adam + Whitney Diehl continue to discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway--w/r/t the prose/poetry/language/phrasing/syntax/readability.
Is it "like running one's face against a granite wall in the darkness"????

Monday Sep 04, 2023
Mrs. Dalloway: The Third Hour
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
On the Third Hour (GMT), English teachers Adam + Whitney Diehl discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.