This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills…Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.”