The following is a recap of the six-part mini-series of podcast interviews on The Faun’s Bookshelf, a book by Dr. Charlie Starr from 2021. Prior to this I had single interview with Charlie when the book came out in 2018. This series goes into a lot more detail by spending time into each of the four …
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The Lion’s Country: C.S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real (released in December 2022) by Charlie Starr is somewhat of a follow-up to The Faun’s Bookshelf (released in 2018). In this podcast interview with William O’Flaherty, Charlie first explains the difference between the two, before providing a brief glimpse into The Lion’s Country itself. While the …
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Version 1.00 Last Updated 8/31/21 The following is a rough transcript of an answer Dr. Charlie Starr gave to the question “Why care about myths? Aren’t they just lies or fiction at their best?” He answered this as part of the podcast mini-series on The Faun’s Bookshelf that began on August 30, 2021, on All …
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If you have ever wanted to dig deeper into your understanding of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and the other Inklings, then you will want to give a listen to this special podcast. Northwind Seminary offers a Doctor in Theology and Ministry degree (DTM) with a concentration in Romantic Theology. The following interview (select the …
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The Faun’s Bookshelf is an interesting title that explores, as part of the subtitle reveals, “Why Myth Matters.” Dr. Charlie Starr, the author, uses books C.S. Lewis mentions on Mr. Tumnus’s bookshelf as the framework to examine what myth means and how it teaches us about reality. This interviewed was recorded on the campus of Taylor University …
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This book interview is from 2012, but it had not yet been featured here since changing the podcast audio hosting. It is a conversation with Dr. Charlie W. Starr and his book Light: C.S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story. It tells the story of how a manuscript surfaced that appeared to be a different version of …
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After beginning an occasional series examining a single essay from Lewis in 2012 and doing more than a dozen that year, I ended up doing a lot fewer since that time. The following discussion with Dr. Charlie Starr was first released in April, 2013. It’s on the essay “Horrid Red Things.” The hope is that …
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I’m sharing an interview from respected C.S. Lewis scholar Dr. Charlie Starr, but it’s not directly about Lewis. However, Charlie does announce news about upcoming articles related to Lewis towards the end of the show. However, the main focus is on a brand new fictional book that is influenced in part by Lewis and done in the vein of his Science Fiction trilogy. The book is called The Heart of Light: A Tale of Solomon Star and it is the first of what should be many great adventures. This is also different in another way,
Dr. Charlie W. Starr has published several scholarly and popular articles on C. S. Lewis, especially on Lewis and film. His personal website has a section devoted to Lewis that you will want to check out. A large variety of articles he has written over the years are available in his “Charlie’s Lewis Essays” subsection. Among the articles is a very insightful piece called “C.S. Lewis’s Vision of Heaven” that was first published in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society. His “Chronicles of Narnia” area includes all the maps on Narnia in one place for easy reference. There are several other subsections in Charlie’s site to explore as well.
Two months ago (April 2013) Dr. Charlie Starr came to Morgantown, WV as a guest speaker to kick-off the start of the C.S. Lewis Society of Morgantown. Dr. Starr teaches English, Humanities, and Film at Kentucky Christian University and is the author of Light: C.S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story. The following is the main …
