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Sophomore Lit

161: A Canticle for Leibowitz

Jul 15, 2024
57:38

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a bunch of monks sitting around copying stuff. Jelani Sims returns to discuss Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959).

John McCoy with Jelani Sims

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Internet Archive has all episodes of the 15-part NPR Playhouse adaptation which aired in 1981.

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