Ryan Brooks
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorRyan Brooks joined WTAMU’s faculty in 2015 after receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and serving as a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. His teaching and research interests include American literature of the 20th- and 21st centuries, literary theory & composition. His book Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era came out in June 2022. His writing has also appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television.
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Hello, this is Ryan Brooks, an English professor from Canyon, Texas. I’m on your airwaves today to discuss George Saunders’s zany-but-heartfelt 2017 novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, for HPPR’s Radio Readers Book Club. -
Hello, this is Ryan Brooks, an English professor from Canyon, Texas. I’m on your airwaves today to discuss George Saunders’ comic 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo, for HPPR’s Radio Readers Book Club.The book is set on one night in 1862, in a Washington, D.C., cemetery teeming with ghosts who refuse to acknowledge they are ghosts.
