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S4 Ep. 17: Biden Boom? Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess
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Scholar Carolin Benack and novelist Sanjena Sathian join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss how literature and economics intersect. First, Benack talks about the theoretical storytelling that is economics, and reads from her article on the topic. Then, Sathian reads from her debut novel Gold Diggers and talks about the American obsession with excess, and how our fluctuating economy impacts our relationship with wealth and reinvention.
To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub’s Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction’s YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/
This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.
Selected readings:
Others:
- The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel by Catherine Gallagher
- “The Economy of Pain: Capitalism, Humanitarianism, and the Realistic Novel,” by Wai Chee Dimock
- U.S. Intelligence Report Warns of Global Consequences of Social Fragmentation, from The New York Times
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- Rabbit Hole, podcast from the New York Times
- George Saunders
- Edith Wharton
- John Updike
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Manage episode 292965770 series 2434626
Scholar Carolin Benack and novelist Sanjena Sathian join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss how literature and economics intersect. First, Benack talks about the theoretical storytelling that is economics, and reads from her article on the topic. Then, Sathian reads from her debut novel Gold Diggers and talks about the American obsession with excess, and how our fluctuating economy impacts our relationship with wealth and reinvention.
To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub’s Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction’s YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/
This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.
Selected readings:
Others:
- The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel by Catherine Gallagher
- “The Economy of Pain: Capitalism, Humanitarianism, and the Realistic Novel,” by Wai Chee Dimock
- U.S. Intelligence Report Warns of Global Consequences of Social Fragmentation, from The New York Times
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- Rabbit Hole, podcast from the New York Times
- George Saunders
- Edith Wharton
- John Updike
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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