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Waypoint: Montgomery’s “Min”
Waypoint: Montgomery’s “Min”
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This is the full slate of programs offered by Waywords Studio, specializing in literary podcasts whether audio fiction or criticism. Go to WaywordsStudio.com to Follow or Subscribe to individual programs.
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- Waypoint: Montgomery’s “Min” · 32 minA rarely met short story by Montgomery, and a bit darker than her Anne books. Resources: • Montgomery, L. M.“Min,” 1903. Waypoint – Reading of “Min,” by Lucy Maud Montgomery…
- Spectre-Grey – Dark Montgomery Pt. 2 · 33 minWhat is the real story behind the creator of Anne of Green Gables? In the close of this two-part examination of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s life, we examine how her idealized fiction…
- Ghost in the Garden – Dark Montgomery Pt. 1 · 34 minWhat 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…
- Building Fantasies · 32 minHow 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…
- Mapping Dreams · 38 minHow 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…
- Author Footprints Pt. 2 – The Aracataca Paradox · 33 minWhat 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…
- Author Footprints Pt. 1 – Aura & Reliquary · 31 minWhy 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…
- Packing Lists Pt. 2 – Stalwart Women · 31 minWho 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…
- Packing Lists Pt. 1: Dreams and Dirt · 29 minDid your horse throw ya, buddy? We investigate what we hope to achieve by literary travel . . . and why our packing cannot prepare us for it! While the global tourism industry…
- Grand Tours Pt 2: Bat on the Narrow Road · 29 minWhat’s the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer? Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap between curated tourist…
- Grand Tours Pt 1: The Postcard Illusion · 34 minAre we consuming an authentic place, or are we willingly participating in a beautifully staged performance designed around our own expectations? In this opening episode of…
- Literary Tourism Trailer · 4 minWelcome to the summer trailhead! Join Journey 7 of Literary Nomads as we explore the secrets of literary tourism and travel writing. Discover how authors like L.M. Montgomery…
- Nomadic Departures · 39 minWe are left on the precipice of a severe, unavoidable aporia: when the Empire can absorb and commercialize our very language of protest, the only true ethical act of agency is to…
- What I Get Wrong: Intimidation & Interpretation · 39 minIs our intellectual exercise just an expensive lifestyle brand that keeps our hands clean? In this raw, self-interrogating mailbag episode, we turn the lens inward for a…
- Writing Back: Guerilla Texts, BTS, and Gaye · 36 minIs that blank page paralyzing your activism? Is your irony a mask for your complicity? We’re using William James and David Foster Wallace to interrogate the "sneer trap" of…
- The Ethics of Reading: Frictional Thoughts · 39 minIs your reading just an "escape"?? Your favorite "escape" read might be a gated community for your conscience. Today, we interrogate the "Catharsis Commodity" and ask if our…
- Roman Plow, Sovereign Tree: Seneca and Zhuangzi · 43 minCan Stoicism answer our dilemma? Is the suffering child a product of a world that demands every second and every soul be "useful" to the state? By comparing the "Roman Plow" of…
- The Original Omelas: The Case of the Animals vs. Man · 46 minAnd when the child cannot speak for itself? Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction…
- The Tyranny of Chance: Assis, Borges, and the Randomized Bargain · 37 minWe've turned the basement into a casino! A man who turns to fortune-telling to assuage his conscience. A society that chooses its victims through a lottery. Does "mathematical…
- Waypoint – “The Fortune Teller” · 26 min10 April 2026 Waypoint - "The Fortune Teller" by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is perhaps the greatest writer of Brazil. In “The Fortune-Teller,”…
