Chris Hudson
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorChris Hudson was born in Amarillo, Texas. He earned a BA from the Plan II Honors Liberal Arts program, MA in Latin American Studies, and PhD in English--all from the University of Texas at Austin. He attended graduate school in philosophy at the New School for Social Research and studied law at the Law Center at the University of Houston. He worked at the Texas Senate as a bill editor, a legislative aide, the Legislative Director and later Director of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which he later directed and as the Chief-of-Staff for Senator Judith Zaffirini. He then taught literature for 15 years at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. He is now a Professor of English at Amarillo College, directs the Creative Mind Lecture Series, and is Vice President of the Faculty Senate. Dr. Hudson has lived in Texas, Indiana, New York, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
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Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English professor at Amarillo College. I will begin my final Radio Readers BookByte on Lincoln in the Bardo by promising (with fingers crossed) not to spoil the rather thrilling and suspenseful ending. -
Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English professor at Amarillo College. I’ll be talking to you again about George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo. I left off last time introducing the four main residents of the bardo. I theorized that the residents of the bardo could not let go of the world because of the stories they held onto. -
Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English professor at Amarillo College. I’d like to welcome you to the Fall Radio Readers Book Club. I’m here to talk to you again about George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo. -
Hi, my name is Chris Hudson and I’m an English professor at Amarillo College. I’d like to welcome you to this year’s Fall Radio Readers Book Club. I’ll be talking to you about George Saunders’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Let me start with a bit of my history with George Saunders. -
“We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child.” ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
