Podcast Episodes

S9E10 Podcast: The 2025 Reading Year in Review

This week Stan kicks off the new year by reviewing his reading in 2025: how many books and pages, fiction ...

S9E7 Podcast: Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Stan’s guest this week is author Leo Damrosch of Harvard University, discussing Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (Yale ...

S9E5 Podcast: Taking Down the Klan

Stan’s guest this week is journalist and author Guy Gugliotta, discussing his new book, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan, ...

S9E2 Podcast: The 10th Inning with Mark Bradley

Stan’s guest this week is long-time Atlanta Journal-Constitution sports columnist Mark Bradley, who retired from the AJC last December after ...

S9E1 Podcast: Summer School

Stan opens Season 9 of Off the Deaton Path talking about his summer reading (so far)—books by Nina Stibbe, Jane ...

S8E23 Podcast: Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and UGA in the Twentieth Century

Stan’s guest this week is NYU professor Robert Cohen, who discusses his new book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and ...

S8E22 Podcast: The First Climate Scientist? Benjamin Franklin and the Franklin Stove

Stan’s guest this week is Harvard historian Joyce Chaplin, who discusses her new book, The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American ...

S8E21 Podcast: The Fate of the Day: Rick Atkinson and the Revolution Trilogy

Stan’s guest this week is Pulitzer-Prize winner Rick Atkinson discussing his new book, The Fate of the Day: The War ...