by Chisnell | 22 September 2026 | Literary Nomads, Podcasts, Waywords
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed What if Anne of Green Gables wasn’t just an escapist daydream, but a calculated strategy that saved its author’s life? Today we find the divide between L.M. Montgomery’s sunlit public fiction and her...
by Chisnell | 8 August 2026 | Literary Nomads, Podcasts, Waywords
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed How does the map overwrite the physical territory it claims to represent? Today we look at literary simulations, from the bedroom of Victor Hugo to the Orlando welter of parks and rides. Guided by the semiotics of...
by Chisnell | 2 August 2026 | Literary Nomads, Podcasts, Waywords
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it? We investigate the “imaginative geographies” we project onto other lands, examining how Italo...
by Chisnell | 25 July 2026 | Literary Nomads, Podcasts, Waywords
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed What happens to a real, working community when a fictional landscape is physically constructed on top of it? We discover the socio-economic friction behind literary travel, contrasting the magical ideals of Gabriel...
by Chisnell | 17 July 2026 | Literary Nomads, Podcasts, Waywords
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Why do we drive thousands of miles just to touch the wooden beams of an author’s birthplace? From Poe’s Baltimore to PEI and Waywords’s own Waterford, MI, we consider what it takes to build a literary...
by Chisnell | 10 July 2026 | Literary Nomads, Podcasts, Waywords
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Who carries the weight of our leisure? Some readings from the past by thoughtful and resilient women! Take in some early writing of place and circumstance, journals and reflections which reflect the jarring collisions...
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