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The Canterbury Fails

The Canterbury Fails

By: David Coley and Matt Hussey
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 Reading marginal, minor, and absolutely unread Old and Middle English poetry, paired with a thematically appropriate cocktail.David Coley and Matt Hussey Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • Kalamazoo Fails 3

    Kalamazoo Fails 3
    May 27 2025

    Matt and David bring the Canterbury Fails roadshow to Kalamazoo with six amazing guests: Valerie Allen, Ruth Evans, Martin Foys, Jordan Zweck, and Jeff Stoyanoff and Kara McShane. They cover some kooky and intriguing Fails. Happy Summer!
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Thre Prestis of Peblis: Threefold Bait and Switch with a Mid Whisky Sour

    Thre Prestis of Peblis: Threefold Bait and Switch with a Mid Whisky Sour
    May 2 2025

    The set up is so juicy: dissolution, gluttony, corruption--but no, it's a moral Scottish march through politics, ethics, and penance, with a 3x3 drink that does what it should but not what it could.
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    56 mins
  • Proverb from Winfrid's Time: A Macronic Prosimetric Shorty with a Burly and Surly Complexity of a Drink

    Proverb from Winfrid's Time: A Macronic Prosimetric Shorty with a Burly and Surly Complexity of a Drink
    Apr 17 2025

    Buried in an eighth-century Latin letter from a monk who keeps his name a secret is a two-line maybe heroic nugget of juicy maybe heroic wisdom. We read it.
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    52 mins
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