Hey, everyone! Thanks for sticking with us all week. Covering the topics we covered the past few days may not have been pleasant, but watching the numbers tick up as our readers and listeners gravitated to the topic certainly was pleasant. It’s important to see that there are people committed to helping certain buried orContinue reading “Podcast Preview: We Welcome the Weekend”
Category Archives: Weekend
Podcast Preview: July Roundtable
Friday is here, and there’s a lot going on for us here in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room. Our most pressing and exciting piece of news is that we have a sponsor (you might have heard us mention as much one or two… hundred times in the last week). The sponsor is Words Matter, whichContinue reading “Podcast Preview: July Roundtable”
Podcast Preview: With the Weekend Approaching…
Many people have Monday off, so it’s an extra long weekend to spend time with family. But if you need to go for a walk by yourself, please feel free to take a look at our newest episode–or at some of the back-catalogue. In the mean time, here’s what our team has been paying attentionContinue reading “Podcast Preview: With the Weekend Approaching…”
Podcast Preview: The Closet in the Library
The Editors of the forthcoming Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5, 3rd Edition This week’s podcast episode is four people talking about the subject they love most. Books, of course. But also: why do we read certain books and not others? All too often, the answer is: the books we have easiest access toContinue reading “Podcast Preview: The Closet in the Library”
Four Seawolves on a Zoom
(Erika, for the Ivory Tower Boiler Room team) It’s the weekend again and we’ve got a great episode for you to listen to. Three of this week’s four podcast participants are Stony Brook alumni, and the fourth is still there. This week, from the Boiler Room, we bring you a little something new–a new questionnaireContinue reading “Four Seawolves on a Zoom”
Podcast Preview: Queerness and Allyship
Hello, lovelies! We wanted to remind you to tune in with us tomorrow night for a stroll through some of the issues crowding our heads this week. One of the more intriguing ones is the recent prohibition of uniformed police from Pride parades. Another is the introduction of the phrase “Rainbow Capitalism” into our collectiveContinue reading “Podcast Preview: Queerness and Allyship”
(Podcast Episode) This Episode Contains Multitudes
Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with his supper?Who wishes to walk with me?(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”) Now that you are done with your day’s work…or perhaps you’re planning to listen while you work, we are happy to bring you this week’s episode honoring the 202nd birthday of WaltContinue reading “(Podcast Episode) This Episode Contains Multitudes”
Happy 202nd Birthday, Walt Whitman
By Andrew Rimby The Ivory Tower Boiler Room is full of Whitmanic energy as we celebrate Whitman’s 202nd birthday on May 31st! As I (Andrew) am writing this, I’m currently visiting my family in South Jersey and am about 15 minutes away from Whitman’s family tomb in Harleigh Cemetery (in Camden, see below). While IContinue reading “Happy 202nd Birthday, Walt Whitman”
Podcast Preview: Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table, Part II
Andrew Answers Adam’s Question I know you’ve been waiting excitedly to hear more about Andrew and who he was writing for, and here’s your chance in this week’s episode. And if that’s not enough excitement for you, you can see the both parts, all together, in our first YouTube video. To help you catch upContinue reading “Podcast Preview: Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table, Part II”
Your Reading Homework
First, we’d like to thank you for the site-traffic. Our most recent post, Nikole Hannah-Jones gets a Seat at the Table. Maybe. For now., has had over 200 unique views since it went up last night. That’s unprecedented for us. Tomorrow, we are carrying on with the release of Part II of our Writing RoundtableContinue reading “Your Reading Homework”