Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books by Richard Bradford (2014) VS Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2019)
Basking in our 200th episode for one more week as we take this week off. Throwing it back to our first episode with Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) VS The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1937).
We're joined by William Fliss - Marquette University's Tolkien Archivist and co-curator for the exhibition J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette’s campus. Marquette owns the manuscripts for The Hob
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland (2023) VS A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (2023)