Literary History & Criticism Podcasts

Each week C-SPAN airs and podcasts their After Words program which features the authors of the latest nonfiction books being interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, and legislators.

A must for the serious reader, "Bookworm" showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established, new or emerging - all interviewed with insight and precision by the show's host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt.

Each week the editor of The Book Review, Pamela Paul, conducts interviews with two authors of popular new book releases, both fiction and nonfiction.

In this downloadable series from Stanford, professor Robert Harrison hosts discussions with other academics on variety of philosophical and literary topics. These hour-long conversations probe into the areas of expertise of many of Stanford's top professors and scholars.

If you have a growing stack of books in your house that you are never quite able to whittle down, the Overdue Podcast might offer a way to get reading.

Book Riot - The Podcast is a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading...

This podcast is an introduction to Anglophone literature, from ancient times to the present, done by a Ph.D.

Tough love for literature.

A podcast for the Librivox Community. Librivox.org encourages volunteers to record audio from public domain texts which can then be made available in the public domain.

The Tolkien Professor podcast is a series of lectures, discussions, and seminars on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Corey Olsen, Assistant Professor of English at Washington College in Maryland.