This episode, we enter the compelling world of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn, the first in her Xenogenesis series.
That’s right, we’re going full sci-fi. Post-apocalypse, aliens, tentacles and even…interspecies orgies?
This little[…]

For the first time on the Disco, we discuss a book on the craft of writing. We delve into a new collection of essays by some of the world’s great memoirists.
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Ot[…]

This month we read a nonfiction classic about the movies that changed Hollywood– hear us battle it out between Dr. Dolittle and Bonnie & Clyde. Oscar season is over but we’re not done talking about it!

This episode we discuss an essay by Colby Buzzell appearing in the March Issue of Esquire, available here.
Buzzell offers a look at the life of American Muslims and the armed protestors who regularly appear outside of their mosques.
While he aims fo[…]

Just in time for the end of the year…
Oh, wait.
Super late, we have our annual “best of” conversation for 2015!
We cover our favorite books, and then, as is Literary Disco tradition, we digress into countless other favorites…

Happy holidays! For this winter season, we got you an extra episode (to make up for our many delays this year– we blame Rider’s cute baby and Julia’s incredible myriad of technical issues). We got you what you like best: a book we […]

We continue our discussion with New York Public librarian Gwen, who recommended two books for us to read and discuss.
Both are aimed at a younger audience but with an eye to gender and identity.
George, by Alex Gino, is a coming of age story set in […]

In this first half of two-part special (we’re crazy like that), we meet someone with the coolest job in the world: a recommendations editor at the New York Public Library.

Justine, the first book of the legendary Alexandria Quartet, gets the disco treatment.
This novel was published in 1957 and has attracted devotees ever since. Told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator, it’s a non-linear, intense examina[…]