Episode 152: Novelist Spotlight #152: Remembering sexual pioneer and controversial novelist D.H. Lawrence

Novelist Spotlight

In the spotlight is D.H. Lawrence, the great and controversial novelist, and Richard Kaye, professor of literature in the English department at Hunter College, part of the city university system in Manhattan. Since 2017, Mr. Kaye has been the editor of The D. H. Lawrence Review, the 50-year-old journal dealing with the life and work of the British writer.

We discuss:

>> The censorship of Lawrence’s novels

>> Lady Chatterly’s Lover

>> D.H. Lawrence’s status as one of the greatest writers of his century

>> His modernist works

>> His take on social alienation and industrialization

>> His championing of sexuality, vitality and instinct

>> Etc.

Learn more about D.H. Lawrence here: https://www.dhlawrencesociety.com

Learn more about Richard Kaye here: https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/english/richard-kaye/richard-kaye

Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol, author of “Lolita Firestone: A Supernatural Novel,” “Family Recipes: A Novel About Italian Culture, Catholic Guilt and the Culinary Crime of the Century” and “Hardwood: A Novel About College Basketball and Other Games Young Men Play.” Buy them on any major bookselling site. Write to Mike Consol at [e-mail]. We hope you will subscribe and share the link with any family, friends or colleagues who might benefit from this program.