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SlantCast

SlantCast

By: The Official Podcast of Slant Books
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Online book launches, readings, conversations about a wide range of literary topics -- welcome to SlantCast, the official podcast of Slant Books. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres. Slant books are marked by the kind of meticulous craft and passion for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.The Official Podcast of Slant Books Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • #40: Book Launch Event for "The Future of Love"

    #40: Book Launch Event for "The Future of Love"
    Mar 9 2026

    SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet John Poch for the book launch of “Brooding Upon the Waters,” published by Slant Books.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • #39: What is "Humanism"?

    #39: What is "Humanism"?
    Feb 10 2026

    SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by distinguished Renaissance scholar Erika Rummel to discuss the history of humanism with a focus on the life and achievements of Desiderius Erasmus.
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    1 hr
  • #38: What Literature Tells Us about the Need for Community

    #38: What Literature Tells Us about the Need for Community
    Jan 26 2026

    SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by the new managing editor of Slant Books, Emily Kwilinski, to discuss the topic of her doctoral thesis on the theme of community in Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
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