Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming

About this Episode

Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer

The Manifesto:
Derek Walcott, The Muse of History
http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results

The Art:
Mavis Gallant, “The Latehomecomer”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/07/08/the-latehomecomer

Works Cited:

Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57109/bleecker-street-summer

Derek Walcott, “Hic Jacet”
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537579

Derek Walcott, “Air”
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2640/air.html

VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119600/a-house-for-mr-biswas-by-v-s-naipaul

VS Naipaul, Miguel Street
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119625/miguel-street-by-vs-naipaul

Derek Walcott, “The Bounty”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48318/the-bounty

Clive James on Sartre, from Cultural Amnesia
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Amnesia-Necessary-Memories-History/dp/039333354X

Vico, The New Science
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Penguin-Classics-Giambattista-Vico/dp/0140435697

Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075

The novellas of Joseph Roth
https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Roth/e/B001HNKTLE

Apogee Journal
https://apogeejournal.org/

Audio Clips
Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY

Derek Walcott reading from The Bounty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIMvohjODY

Walcott on his life and work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6mgbRSUzo&list=PLfngbdaGfrrM7IziPezFDTsgxeShxysMt