S4:E6 - Diana Pavlac Glyer & 'Bandersnatch'

About this episode

Carolyn Clare Givens interviews Diana Pavlac Glyer about her reinterpretation of the Inklings and the collaborative nature of creativity.

Carolyn Clare Givens interviews our “fairy godmother” Diana Pavlac Glyer (author of our publishing company’s namesake book Bandersnatch ! ) about her life’s work reinterpreting the Inklings (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and their friends) not as a group of solitary men occasionally meeting together, and keeping their creativity strictly boundaried from each other. Instead, Glyer challenged the academic standard story about the Inklings by demonstrating from painstaking research the evidence of all the collaborative sparks that caught fire among a group of men who all served as resonators for one another. She highlights that in her academic classic The Company They Keep . But Glyer is not content to leave creativity in the history books! In Bandersnatch Glyer is equally interested in bringing those same sparks to your writing group and emboldening resonators to create new hubs of art and faith. Mentioned in this episode: * Clay in the Potter’s Hand - Diana Pavlac Glyer * Square Halo Books * Azusa Pacific University * The Inklings * Thomas Aquinas * Out of the Silent Planet * Humphrey Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien Biography * The Company They Keep * Karen Burke Lefevre * The Habit…

People in this episode

Host: Carolyn Clare Givens

Guest: Diana Pavlac Glyer

Topics covered

• Inklings
• creativity
• collaboration
• writing groups
• art and faith

Keywords

• Inklings
• Diana Pavlac Glyer
• Bandersnatch
• creativity
• collaboration
• writing groups
• art
• faith

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bandersnatch Books, Square Halo Books, Azusa Pacific University, The Habit Writing Community, The Wade Center

Books & works: Bandersnatch, The Company They Keep, Out of the Silent Planet, J.R.R. Tolkien Biography, Alligators, No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Mitford Book Series

Places: Hamilton

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