Episode 254: The Literary Life 2025 Season Preview

Welcome to this special preview episode of The Literary Life Podcast! In this episode, our hosts Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks share the books and topics you can look forward to in the upcoming 2025 season of the podcast. This episode was recorded live with the Patreon supporters for our December All Fellows Eve. In addition to giving a taste of what to expect in the coming year, they also look back at the past year and touch on a few favorite books covered in 2024.

In this coming year we plan to have several new “Literary Life of…” interviews, as well as several topical episodes discussing ideas such as classical education, the literary tradition, and what to do when you don’t like the characters in a book. A few book titles that we will be covering in 2025 include: The Age of Innocence, The Jungle Book, and Moliere’s Don Juan.

If you are looking for a reading challenge for the coming year, you can look back at our catalogue of previous challenges and pick your favorite one to follow in 2025!

This is the time to purchase any of the pre-recorded classes you’ve had your eye on at HouseofHumaneLetters.com because the Christmas sale is on now through December 31, 2024. For those who want a way to keep track of their HHL webinars, conferences, and mini-classes, here is a handy spreadsheet to help you out! Just copy the document into your own files, and you can edit it as you please!

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Book List:

Why Literature Still Matters by Dr. Jason Baxter

The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens

Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Modern Scholar: A History of the English Language by Dr. Michael Trout

Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis

Flannery O’Connor

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Don Juan by Moliere

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

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