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Open Books at the Fox Center


About the Podcast

The Open Books at the Fox Center podcast is for anyone with a curious mind who wants the inside scoop on new research in the humanistic disciplines: history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, religious studies, and more.

Each episode, we talk to researchers who are working at the cutting edge of their disciplines to learn about the books they’re writing, the questions that drive them, and the findings they hope we’ll take away. Many of the books discussed in this podcast have been supported by the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative, which means you can read them online for free.

Credits & Acknowledgements 

This podcast is produced and edited by Mae Velloso-Lyons, with additional editing and sound mixing by Karl-Mary Akre. Our music is by DaniHaDani.

This podcast is a co-production by the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and the Digital Publishing in the Humanities (DPH) initiative. DPH is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Emory College Office of Faculty. This podcast was recorded at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

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Season One

Episode 1: Who Decides What You Read? Dan Sinykin on Big Fiction

How are changes to the publishing industry shaping what we read? Is it harder to be an author now than it used to be? For this episode of Open Books, Mae Velloso-Lyons is joined by Dan Sinykin, Associate Professor of English at Emory University and author, most recently, of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. Start listening below or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.