| 1 | 5.2 Wake Up with Wakefield 2024-05-01 |
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| 2 | 5.1 Introduction 2024-04-24 |
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| 3 | Season 5 Trailer: The Short Story in the United States 2024-04-03 |
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| 4 | 4.5 Immortality 2023-07-04 |
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| 5 | 4.4 Cinematic Transcendence 2023-06-27 |
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| 6 | 4.3 The Flawed Mind Monkey 2023-06-20 |
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| 7 | 4.2 Lawful Chaos 2023-06-13 |
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| 8 | 4.1 Introduction 2023-06-06 |
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| 9 | Season 4 Trailer: The Hall of the Monkey King 2023-05-25 |
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| 10 | 3.5 You Take It from Here 2022-05-10 |
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The Cosmic Library
The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three journeyed through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In season four, we considered Journey to the West. For season five, we talk about a kind of writing that's filled many massive books: the American short story.
