Exploring Absurdity: Parallels Between Film Comedies and Children’s Literature

Poet and philosopher James Matthew Wilson joins the podcast to discuss two films by the Marx Brothers (Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera). Wilson also reads one of his poems featuring allusions to the Marx Brothers, and talks about the letters written between Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot.

James Matthew Wilson, The Strangeness of the Good https://angelicopress.com/products/the-strangeness-of-the-good

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Music is The Duskwhales, “Take It Back”, used with permission. https://theduskwhales.bandcamp.com