PWJ: S4E35 – AH – “After Hours” with Brooke Medina

After seeing the tweet announcing her goal to be invited onto a podcast in 2021 to gush about C.S. Lewis, we invited Brooke Medina onto the show to do just that!

S4E35: “After Hours” with Brooke Medina (Download)

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Timestamps

00:00 – Entering “The Eagle & Child”…
00:10 – Welcome
00:38 – Brooke Medina
03:30 – Quote-of-the-week
03:51 – Drink-of-the-week
06:11 – Patreon Toast
06:30 – Discussion
53:30– “Last Call” Bell and Closing Thoughts

YouTube Version

After Show Skype Session

For the “Skype Session” today, I spoke to Matt Nelson about a blog post he had written concerning where to begin with Lewis’ writings, C.S. Lewis for beginners: A Guide:

Show Notes

Biographical Information

• Brooke and I met on Twitter:

A 2021 goal I have is to be invited onto a podcast wherein the only expectation made of me is to gush about CS Lewis' essays that specifically touch on audience and science fiction…oh, and explore how he employs landscape.

— Brooke Medina (@Brooke_Medina_) January 19, 2021

Quote-of-the-week

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once

Letter from C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (February 1932)

Drink-of-the-week

• The next thing is our drink-of-the-week, which today is Ardbeg, which has the following tasting notes in Michael Jackson’s Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch:
  • Color: Pale gold
  • Nose: Sweet, with soft peat, carbolic soap, and smoked fish
  • Body: Medium, firm
  • Palate: Burning peats and dried fruit, followed by malt and a touch of licorice
  • Finish: Long and smoky. Fine balance of cereal sweetness, iodine, and dry peat

Patreon Toast

• Today I toasted all of Twitter!

Twitter, thank you for not being a complete dumpster fire. Cheers!

Patreon Toast

Discussion

• We spoke about Brooke’s history with C.S. Lewis.
• We discussed some of her favourite books:
  • That Hideous Strength
  • Till We Have Faces
  • Surprised By Joy
  • The Abolition of Man
  • That Hideous Strength
• We chatted about Lewis’ essays.
  • On Writing Stories for Children
  • Priestesses in the Church?
  • On Science Fiction
  • Myth Became Fact