American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
Arts:Literature
Part one of my five-part review of ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis. This novel explores the culture of professional medicine in early 20th century America through the life of a young doctor torn by different perspectives on the proper role of the doctor.
Episode 312: Lincoln's Return to Public Life (Writings 1855 to summer of 1858)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 144: Memories if Nothing Else (I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 143: Philip K. Dick Writes about Crazy Neighbors (Strange Memories of Death)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 142: The Exit Door Leads In
Episode 311: The Beginning of the Sectional Conflict (Abraham Lincoln's Writings 1849-1854)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 141: The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.5: The Cycle of Death (A Scanner Darkly, Part 5)
Episode 310: An Illinois Lawyer Goes to Washington (Lincoln Writings 1845-1848)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.4: This Is Your Brain on Death (A Scanner Darkly Part 4)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.3: I'll Be Watching You....I Mean Me (A Scanner Darkly Part 3)
Episode 309: Young Politician Lincoln (to 1844)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.2: Paranoia and the Police State (A Scanner Darkly, Part 2)
Episode 308: Tocqueville Finale (Democracy in America, Part 8)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 140.1: California Dreaming of Death (A Scanner Darkly, Part 1)
Episode 307: Democratic Mores (Democracy in America, Part 7)
Episode 306: Tocqueville on American Individualism (Democracy in America, Part 6)
Philip K. Dick Club: Episode 139: Science Fiction Writer or an Oracle? (The Eye of the Sibyl)
Episode 305: Tocqueville on Democracy's Intellectual Culture (Democracy in America, Part 5)
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 138.2: A Pilgrimage at the End of Days (Deus Irae, Part 2)
Episode 304: Tocqueville on Slavery in America (Democracy in America, Part 4)
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