The Re-Enchantment Book Club

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

In this episode, Jordan and Brendan discuss the complex & bittersweet relationship with Home, the pronunciation of “Kunstlerroman,” getting to know your neighbors, the line between poetry & prose, Mexican street food, and whether this book is technically even a novel.
What we’re reading:
Trust by Hernan Diaz
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Other Mentions:
The Iowa Writer’s Workshop (MFA program)
 
Next episode we will be discussing Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. We hope you join us! 
 
Music by Brendan Michael and Will Berry
Podcast Graphic designed by Alex Morra

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

In this episode, Jordan and Brendan acknowledge their limited perspective; they also discuss the slow & frustrating work of justice, the effects of dehumanization, Gaines’s use of seemingly futile repetition, and the power of southern comfort food.
What we’re reading:
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
The Great Tradition ed. by Richard Gamble
Creator Spirit by Steven Guthrie
 
Next episode we will be discussing The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. We hope you join us! 
 
Music by Brendan Michael and Will Berry
Podcast Graphic designed by Alex Morra
 
 

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

In this debut episode, Jordan and Brendan discuss homesickness, pretentious German words, Lewis’s profound love of horses, the “around the corner” feeling, cockney accents, and the absurdity of adulthood.
What we’re reading:
The Need to be Whole by Wendell Berry
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Other Mentions:
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Sehnsucht”
 
Music by Brendan Michael and Will Berry
Podcast Graphic designed by Alex Morra