Episode 78
February 14, 2025
Memory ServesA Study in Scarlet
Hosted by Chris Piuma and Suzanne Conklin Akbari
I love the bones that are stones...
Stone is our oldest grandfather. We refer to the stones that keep our songs and stories as grandfathers. Our grandfathers give us the rock on which we stand, but our grandmothers move us from that stone in the direction of relation with others. They are the keepers of the stories that teach us about relations; they are the flesh of our bones that are stones. I carry them, willingly.
Suzanne has been rereading Lee Maracle’s Memory Serves: Oratories, a collection of essay-like pieces that we first discussed back in 2020. Chris has finally read a proper Sherlock Holmes story: A Study in Scarlet, the novel where Arthur Conan Doyle introduced the character.
We talk about reading books your friends have written, not reading books your friends have written, lingering on passages that you don’t yet understand, how we share understanding and knowledge, and how to deal with a know-it-all character.
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Show Notes.
Lee Maracle: Memory Serves: Oratories.
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet. Also available on Project Gutenberg.
Our previous episodes on Lee Maracle’s Memory Serves and I Am Woman, as well as the bonus episode where she joined us to discuss Great Expectations (and more)!
Anthony Oliveira: Dayspring.
Jared Pechaćek: The West Passage.
Matthew Gabriele & David Perry: Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe.
Karla Mallette: Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Jen Coleman: We Denizens.
Walter C. Lightning: Compassionate Mind: Implications of a Text Written by Elder Louis Sunchild.
Our episode on Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back.
The episode of Chris’s other podcast where Sherlock Holmes came up recently.
Arthur Conan Doyle: The White Company, Sir Nigel, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Dorothy Sayers: The Nine Tailors.
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land.
Our episode on The Return of the King.
Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely and The Big Sleep.
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Our episode on The Name of the Rose.
William Carlos Williams: Paterson and Spring and All (which includes The Red Wheelbarrow).
George A. Tice: Paterson.
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