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Sit back, relax and enjoy the low-fi vibes of what may be the most analog channel on booktube. Dan got his start in radio so we suggest you luxuriate in the voice. The lyric is the thing! Let Dan fascinate you with unique takes on novels, plays, poems, classics, Nobel winners, translated fiction, genre fiction, non-fiction - with spoofs, games, and a pickle for the knowing one, plus perhaps eventually some Talk Swop and interviews of diverse booktubers. 

What do you bring to Booktube re-answered: close reading and broad contexts done with humor, wonder, and just a touch of my critical training and translation experience. I studied at the Sorbonne and Berkeley Graduate Theological union, was a forester in the Sahara, did folklore research among the Dineh (Navajo) and Tzotzil Maya, published travel books on New Orleans and Shenyang, China, taught in a village in the Republic of Georiga and at Thammasat University in Thailand, etc.