Interview With The Vampire - Literary Literacy

About this episode

This episode begins a three-part series exploring the themes and literary significance of 'Interview With The Vampire' by Anne Rice.

Welcome to Academia Unlocked, our literary deep-dive series on Book Talk for BookTok! In this episode, we kick off our three-part series discussing Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice With over 13 years of combined academic training in literature and creative writing, we walk listeners through the foundational tools of reading beyond the surface. The book community talks about the "decline of literacy" constantly, but almost no one stops to define what literary literacy actually is or how to build it. This series exists to change that. One of the most common ways readers come to Interview with the Vampire is as a horror story. A man becomes a monster and spends eternity regretting it. But Anne Rice was doing something far more precise on the page: writing a confession that doubles as an elegy, for grief that couldn't be named, for love that couldn't be spoken, for a community already disappearing before the world had a word for what was taking it. This series is about making space for both of those readings at once. Whether you fell in love with Lestat on your screen, couldn't put the novel down at 2am, or only know Louis de Pointe du Lac as Brad Pitt looking beautiful and…

Topics covered

• literary literacy
• Interview With The Vampire
• Anne Rice
• horror story
• reading
• grief
• community

Keywords

• literary analysis
• Anne Rice
• Interview With The Vampire
• horror literature
• reading skills
• literary themes
• grief
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Subtext Society Journal

Books & works: Interview With The Vampire

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