Category Archives: Classics Now and the Northcoast Book Discussion Group – Classic Literature with Doc Stull and Mary Harper

Modeled after the Great Books Discussion Groups, the Northcoast Book Discussion Group was co-founded in 1993 by retired physicist-mathematician Joe Duroux (now retired from the group), HSU professor and author Dr. Dick (Doc) Stull, and quondam KHSU radio producer and general nuisance Lance Hardie.

Doc’s and Mary Harper’s radio show “Classics Now” can be heard on KHSU 90.5 FM Arcata the third Thursday of every month on the Humboldt Homepage at 1:15 PM.

http://www.hardiehouse.org/greatbooks/index.html

Radio Appearance

Latin American Poets – on Classics Now,  Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

 

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc and Mary will discuss selected poetry from Nicaragua’s Ruben Dario, Chile’s Pablo Neruda, and Mexico’s Octavio Paz.

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Northcoast Book Discussion Group List for 2014 and past twenty year archive:

http://www.hardiehouse.org/greatbooks/

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Radio Appearance

Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy – on Classics Now,  Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

 

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc and Mary will discuss one of the most popular books in the 19th century America, Looking Backward, published in 1888.  Bellamy’s  conversations about  capitalism and society projected into the then distant year 2000 is a fascinating Utopian speculation into how we might live today.

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Northcoast Book Discussion Group List for 2014 and past twenty year archive:

http://www.hardiehouse.org/greatbooks/

Radio Appearance

Letters from Prison, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer – on Classics Now,  Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc and Mary will discuss the remarkable work, Letters from Prison, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  A young Christian theologian, Bonhoeffer was imprisoned in 1943 and executed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in 1945.   Bonhoeffer wrestles with meaning in the face of despair.

 

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Northcoast Book Discussion Group List for 2014 and past twenty year archive:

http://www.hardiehouse.org/greatbooks/

Radio Appearance

The Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin – on Classics Now,  Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc and Mary will discuss the provocative and controversial  novel of female sensuality/sexuality/pleasure for its own sake without commitment  in Anais Nin’s  Spy in the House of Love (1954),  To listen, click on the link below:

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Radio Appearance

The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers – on Classics Now,  Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc and Mary will discuss the powerful poetry of American poet/novelist writer Robinson Jeffers.   Known to much of America in the 1920’s and 1930’s, Jeffers was an  American treasure and even presaged the Deep Ecology movement with his love of nature and critique of man’s callous ignorance of the natural world.   To listen, click on the link below:

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Northcoast Book Discussion Group List for 2014 and past twenty year archive:

http://www.hardiehouse.org/greatbooks/

Radio Appearance

Freud’s “The Future of an Illusion” – on Classics Now,  Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc and Mary will discuss Sigmund Freud’s fascinating cultural interpretation  of religion, written at the turn-of-the-20th-century.   To listen, click on the link below:

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Northcoast Book Discussion Group List for 2014 and past twenty year archive:

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Radio Appearance

Tagore’s “Hungry Stones” – on Classics Now,  Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 1:15  PM on KHSU 90.5 FM, Arcata

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Join Doc and Mary for their monthly classics literature show on the Humboldt Homepage.  Doc ad Mary will discuss  the Nobel Prize winning Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861 – 1941) short story collection, The Hungry Stones.  A remarkable author, poet, musician and polymath, Tagore’s simple but profound stories resonate with great lyrical, philosophical yet uncommonly heartfelt tones that are timeless.  To listen, click on the link below:

Tune in and listen to the show or stream it at:

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Northcoast Book Discussion Group List for 2014 and past twenty year archive:

http://www.hardiehouse.org/greatbooks/