The Cosmic Library
@cosmiclibrary.bsky.social
The Lit Hub podcast about infinity books: Finnegans Wake, 1,001 Nights, the Hebrew Bible, Journey to the West, an impossible collection of ALL U.S. SHORT STORIES, and The Brothers Karamazov.
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The Cosmic Library on How Dostoevsky’s Fiction Surpassed Dostoevsky
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, offer…
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New: how Dostoevsky became Dostoevsky, and then wrote fiction that went way beyond Dostoevsky.
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
If you just read Knausgaard on The Brothers Karamazov and are now headed to Karamazov Town, consider our Brothers Karamazov radio play, wherever podcasts are found:
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October 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
If you just read Knausgaard on The Brothers Karamazov and are now headed to Karamazov Town, consider our Brothers Karamazov radio play, wherever podcasts are found:
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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Karamazov Season concludes with its fifth episode!
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Strange convergences, endings looping into beginnings—it’s all here, all thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Paulina Rowinska.
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Strange convergences, endings looping into beginnings—it’s all here, all thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Paulina Rowinska.
The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction
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, offer…
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May 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Karamazov Season concludes with its fifth episode!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Strange convergences, endings looping into beginnings—it’s all here, all thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Paulina Rowinska.
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Strange convergences, endings looping into beginnings—it’s all here, all thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Paulina Rowinska.
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📅 Fri. 5/9 @ 7PM: We are excited to welcome Adam Colman of Lit Hub’s Cosmic Library podcast for an event with the poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert and the novelist Andrew Martin, prompted by The Cosmic Library’s new season about Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s "Brothers Karamazov". Learn more: buff.ly/ZcCnfbs
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📅 Fri. 5/9 @ 7PM: We are excited to welcome Adam Colman of Lit Hub’s Cosmic Library podcast for an event with the poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert and the novelist Andrew Martin, prompted by The Cosmic Library’s new season about Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s "Brothers Karamazov". Learn more: buff.ly/ZcCnfbs
In our latest episode, something happens that's so cool that I want to say more about it.
Garth Risk Hallberg mentions that all the unresolved ways of thinking—let's say religious, materialist, idealistic—in Brothers Karamazov remind him of the incompleteness theorem.
Garth Risk Hallberg mentions that all the unresolved ways of thinking—let's say religious, materialist, idealistic—in Brothers Karamazov remind him of the incompleteness theorem.
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In our latest episode, something happens that's so cool that I want to say more about it.
Garth Risk Hallberg mentions that all the unresolved ways of thinking—let's say religious, materialist, idealistic—in Brothers Karamazov remind him of the incompleteness theorem.
Garth Risk Hallberg mentions that all the unresolved ways of thinking—let's say religious, materialist, idealistic—in Brothers Karamazov remind him of the incompleteness theorem.
New: follow the Karamazov brothers to where dreams and math merge, parallel lines collide, and complete ways of thinking prove incomplete.
Mathematician Paulina Rowińska guides us to the far reaches of logic. Find it at @literaryhub.bsky.social and all podcatchers:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Mathematician Paulina Rowińska guides us to the far reaches of logic. Find it at @literaryhub.bsky.social and all podcatchers:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky
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, offer…
lithub.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New: follow the Karamazov brothers to where dreams and math merge, parallel lines collide, and complete ways of thinking prove incomplete.
Mathematician Paulina Rowińska guides us to the far reaches of logic. Find it at @literaryhub.bsky.social and all podcatchers:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Mathematician Paulina Rowińska guides us to the far reaches of logic. Find it at @literaryhub.bsky.social and all podcatchers:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
This week's episode gets into Dostoevsky's non-Euclidean geometry and Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
I swear it makes almost intuitive sense! You'll hear me say things like "oh man my brain is exploding," but as I re-listen, I'm amazed at how clearly the guests explain this stuff.
I swear it makes almost intuitive sense! You'll hear me say things like "oh man my brain is exploding," but as I re-listen, I'm amazed at how clearly the guests explain this stuff.
May 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This week's episode gets into Dostoevsky's non-Euclidean geometry and Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
I swear it makes almost intuitive sense! You'll hear me say things like "oh man my brain is exploding," but as I re-listen, I'm amazed at how clearly the guests explain this stuff.
I swear it makes almost intuitive sense! You'll hear me say things like "oh man my brain is exploding," but as I re-listen, I'm amazed at how clearly the guests explain this stuff.
And on Friday, May 9th, at 7 pm at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, come see a live Cosmic Library event with Elisa Gabbert, Andrew Martin, and me:
www.harvard.com/event/cosmic...
Until then, get caught up with this season’s Karamazov radio play, here:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
www.harvard.com/event/cosmic...
Until then, get caught up with this season’s Karamazov radio play, here:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
April 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
And on Friday, May 9th, at 7 pm at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, come see a live Cosmic Library event with Elisa Gabbert, Andrew Martin, and me:
www.harvard.com/event/cosmic...
Until then, get caught up with this season’s Karamazov radio play, here:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
www.harvard.com/event/cosmic...
Until then, get caught up with this season’s Karamazov radio play, here:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Plunge into The Brothers Karamazov's philosophical "reaction chamber" w/ @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Robin Feuer Miller. It's episode 3 of our Karamazov Season, at @literaryhub.bsky.social or any podcatcher!
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The Cosmic Library on the Philosophy of The Brothers Karamazov
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, offer…
lithub.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Plunge into The Brothers Karamazov's philosophical "reaction chamber" w/ @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Robin Feuer Miller. It's episode 3 of our Karamazov Season, at @literaryhub.bsky.social or any podcatcher!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
New: how Dostoevsky became Dostoevsky, and then wrote fiction that went way beyond Dostoevsky.
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
The Cosmic Library on How Dostoevsky’s Fiction Surpassed Dostoevsky
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, offer…
lithub.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New: how Dostoevsky became Dostoevsky, and then wrote fiction that went way beyond Dostoevsky.
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
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I wanted a chance to re-read it! which I will do ..............starting ....................
now!
now!
April 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wanted a chance to re-read it! which I will do ..............starting ....................
now!
now!
Here at Bluesky, you'll get the DVD extras about the new Cosmic Library season (coming out via @literaryhub.bsky.social; find our Karamazov radio play there now). For example, a true story: @johncotter.bsky.social ultimately convinced me to make this season about The Brothers Karamazov. (Thanks!)
April 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here at Bluesky, you'll get the DVD extras about the new Cosmic Library season (coming out via @literaryhub.bsky.social; find our Karamazov radio play there now). For example, a true story: @johncotter.bsky.social ultimately convinced me to make this season about The Brothers Karamazov. (Thanks!)
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I'm in good company as a guest on this season of @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social and they're reading #Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov! The first ep is up today and I'm excited to hear how the discussion comes together around this monumental novel! Check it out: lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
The Cosmic Library presents The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play
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, offer…
lithub.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I'm in good company as a guest on this season of @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social and they're reading #Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov! The first ep is up today and I'm excited to hear how the discussion comes together around this monumental novel! Check it out: lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
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I’m a podcast junkie - literally no housework or cooking would take place without one - so I don’t know why it’s taken this long to discover @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social ! Just binged all of #JourneytotheWest and going in on #1001nights
There is in fact a new Cosmic Library season on the way!
Its subject will be announced here and via the Cosmic Library newsletter. Now's a good moment to subscribe:
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Its subject will be announced here and via the Cosmic Library newsletter. Now's a good moment to subscribe:
cosmiclibrary.substack.com
The Cosmic Library | Adam Colman | Substack
Adventures in books of night, sleep, dreams, and infinity. Click to read The Cosmic Library, by Adam Colman, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
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April 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I’m a podcast junkie - literally no housework or cooking would take place without one - so I don’t know why it’s taken this long to discover @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social ! Just binged all of #JourneytotheWest and going in on #1001nights
Also: Hearty White makes—this is not an exaggeration—my all-time favorite radio program. The show is "Miracle Nutrition" on @wfmu.bsky.social. It's an unmatched work of art. I urge Cosmic Library listeners to seek it out!
The radio host referred to is me.
Have you ever wanted to hear a Brothers Karamazov radio play, starring novelists and a radio host as the central brothers? We’ve made one, thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social!
Find it wherever podcasts are to be found, and at Lit Hub:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Find it wherever podcasts are to be found, and at Lit Hub:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
April 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Also: Hearty White makes—this is not an exaggeration—my all-time favorite radio program. The show is "Miracle Nutrition" on @wfmu.bsky.social. It's an unmatched work of art. I urge Cosmic Library listeners to seek it out!
There's an easy way to buy the books at the center of each Cosmic Library season—from an independent bookstore.
The @harvardbookstore.bsky.social has made this very cool shopping list of Cosmic Library books, from Finnegans Wake to The Brothers Karamazov:
www.harvard.com/cosmic-library
The @harvardbookstore.bsky.social has made this very cool shopping list of Cosmic Library books, from Finnegans Wake to The Brothers Karamazov:
www.harvard.com/cosmic-library
www.harvard.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There's an easy way to buy the books at the center of each Cosmic Library season—from an independent bookstore.
The @harvardbookstore.bsky.social has made this very cool shopping list of Cosmic Library books, from Finnegans Wake to The Brothers Karamazov:
www.harvard.com/cosmic-library
The @harvardbookstore.bsky.social has made this very cool shopping list of Cosmic Library books, from Finnegans Wake to The Brothers Karamazov:
www.harvard.com/cosmic-library
Have you ever wanted to hear a Brothers Karamazov radio play, starring novelists and a radio host as the central brothers? We’ve made one, thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social!
Find it wherever podcasts are to be found, and at Lit Hub:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Find it wherever podcasts are to be found, and at Lit Hub:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
The Cosmic Library presents The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play
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, offer…
lithub.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Have you ever wanted to hear a Brothers Karamazov radio play, starring novelists and a radio host as the central brothers? We’ve made one, thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social!
Find it wherever podcasts are to be found, and at Lit Hub:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Find it wherever podcasts are to be found, and at Lit Hub:
lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
Our Brothers Karamazov radio play—performed by novelists and a radio host—publishes tomorrow, freely available wherever you go for podcasts, thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social! It's the first episode of our Karamazov miniseries. Not to be missed!
The trailer is up now:
link.chtbl.com/ladQno0e
The trailer is up now:
link.chtbl.com/ladQno0e
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...
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April 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Our Brothers Karamazov radio play—performed by novelists and a radio host—publishes tomorrow, freely available wherever you go for podcasts, thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social! It's the first episode of our Karamazov miniseries. Not to be missed!
The trailer is up now:
link.chtbl.com/ladQno0e
The trailer is up now:
link.chtbl.com/ladQno0e
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This is gonna be good!
This April . . . Garth Risk Hallberg IS Dmitri Karamazov
Andrew Martin IS Ivan Karamazov
@heartywhite.bsky.social IS Alyosha Karamazov.
Find our Brothers Karamazov radio play and related conversations wherever you go for podcasts, starting 4/16. Trailer here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Andrew Martin IS Ivan Karamazov
@heartywhite.bsky.social IS Alyosha Karamazov.
Find our Brothers Karamazov radio play and related conversations wherever you go for podcasts, starting 4/16. Trailer here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Season 6 Trailer: Karamazov Season
Podcast Episode · The Cosmic Library · Trailer · 3m
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April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is gonna be good!
Cosmic Library has a newsletter, which mostly just publishes when there's a new season (which there's about to be!):
cosmiclibrary.substack.com/p/its-karama...
cosmiclibrary.substack.com/p/its-karama...
It's Karamazov Season.
The Cosmic Library's sixth season approaches. Plus: I've been interviewed!
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April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Cosmic Library has a newsletter, which mostly just publishes when there's a new season (which there's about to be!):
cosmiclibrary.substack.com/p/its-karama...
cosmiclibrary.substack.com/p/its-karama...
This April . . . Garth Risk Hallberg IS Dmitri Karamazov
Andrew Martin IS Ivan Karamazov
@heartywhite.bsky.social IS Alyosha Karamazov.
Find our Brothers Karamazov radio play and related conversations wherever you go for podcasts, starting 4/16. Trailer here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Andrew Martin IS Ivan Karamazov
@heartywhite.bsky.social IS Alyosha Karamazov.
Find our Brothers Karamazov radio play and related conversations wherever you go for podcasts, starting 4/16. Trailer here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Season 6 Trailer: Karamazov Season
Podcast Episode · The Cosmic Library · Trailer · 3m
podcasts.apple.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This April . . . Garth Risk Hallberg IS Dmitri Karamazov
Andrew Martin IS Ivan Karamazov
@heartywhite.bsky.social IS Alyosha Karamazov.
Find our Brothers Karamazov radio play and related conversations wherever you go for podcasts, starting 4/16. Trailer here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Andrew Martin IS Ivan Karamazov
@heartywhite.bsky.social IS Alyosha Karamazov.
Find our Brothers Karamazov radio play and related conversations wherever you go for podcasts, starting 4/16. Trailer here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Hear me introduce our new season, Karamazov Season, in a @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation about Cosmic Library with @drewsof.bsky.social.
And learn about The Cosmic Library’s Brothers Karamazov radio play, available FOR FREE on 4/16, wherever podcasts are:
lithub.com/new-on-the-l...
And learn about The Cosmic Library’s Brothers Karamazov radio play, available FOR FREE on 4/16, wherever podcasts are:
lithub.com/new-on-the-l...
New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov
A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…
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April 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hear me introduce our new season, Karamazov Season, in a @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation about Cosmic Library with @drewsof.bsky.social.
And learn about The Cosmic Library’s Brothers Karamazov radio play, available FOR FREE on 4/16, wherever podcasts are:
lithub.com/new-on-the-l...
And learn about The Cosmic Library’s Brothers Karamazov radio play, available FOR FREE on 4/16, wherever podcasts are:
lithub.com/new-on-the-l...
Ok: the next season is on The Brothers Karamazov.
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Ok: the next season is on The Brothers Karamazov.
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I loved the @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social podcast on Finnegans Wake and 1,001 Nights. Hope there’s a new series in the works! Maybe the infinite life and death of the novel a la David Markson and Ronald Sukenic? 😉
February 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I loved the @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social podcast on Finnegans Wake and 1,001 Nights. Hope there’s a new series in the works! Maybe the infinite life and death of the novel a la David Markson and Ronald Sukenic? 😉
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Eliot “Fight the Power” Hodgkin.
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
January 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Eliot “Fight the Power” Hodgkin.