What place does literature have in our lives, today? That's an enormous question, possibly even an enormously BORING question for those of us who don't care. But for those of us who do... Follow the BIG BOOK BOUNTY HUNTER's journey throughout the environs of Boston College as he searches to understand literature's claim on the 21st century individual.

Literary vs Commercial Literature&nbsp;

Episode 2

Welcome to the Big Book Bounty Hunter Podcast. Let's clear up some things.&nbsp;
1: I am the Big Book Bounty Hunter, but you are welcome to take on the title as well
2: What hunting we do here is primarily figurative; this is a podcast about book discovery
3: But what this podcast is really about is developing an empirical understanding of why reading matters and how to make that reading accessibly given our fast-paced lives
4: Because while any college student can intuit that reading is important, we are often (in our contemporary moment) hesitant--we might even dread--reading, thinking of it as this quiet, lonely, difficult and impossibly time-consuming thing
5: Literature is a reward everyone should receive.&nbsp;Go ahead and listen.&nbsp;

Welcome to the Big Book Bounty Hunter Podcast. Let's clear up some things.&nbsp;
1: I am the Big Book Bounty Hunter, but you are welcome to take on the title as well
2: What hunting we do here is primarily figurative; this is a podcast about book discovery
3: But what this podcast is really about is developing an empirical understanding of why reading matters and how to make that reading accessibly given our fast-paced lives
4: Because while any college student can intuit that reading is important, we are often (in our contemporary moment) hesitant--we might even dread--reading, thinking of it as this quiet, lonely, difficult and impossibly time-consuming thing
5: Literature is a reward everyone should receive.&nbsp;Go ahead and listen.&nbsp;