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Episode 134: The Books We Loved in 2018
The last book club you’ll ever need. This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss the best books they read in 2018, including Tara Westover’s Educated, Arthur Krystal’s This Thing...
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Episode 133: Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
It’s the holidays! A time to deck the halls, grab some eggnog, and curl up with the SCARIEST book you can find… That’s right. Christmas horror. It’s a real...
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Episode 132: Vulture’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A couple months ago, Vulture published this crazy, crazy list. It’s an admittedly premature attempt to create a literary canon for the last 18 years. In this episode of...
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Episode 131: Fall Revisit
It’s getting cooler, the leaves are changing, time to curl up with a good book. It’s our Bookshelf Revisit for Fall 2018, an eclectic conversation that covers: Wild children...
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Episode 130: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson became a legend the moment he published this novel of a drug-fueled trip into the desert. Packed with mind-altering chemicals, extreme paranoia, and claiming to be...
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Episode 129: Lord of the Flies
You read it in high school.
You remember the conch, Piggy, and a boar head on a stick…
But do you remember the Beast? That a child disappears the first day on the island? How about the fact that this novel is set during an atomic war?
And did […]
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Episode 128: Gregory Pardlo’s Digest
Today we dive deep into a single poetry collection: Digest, by Gregory Pardlo.
Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer, and with good reason. This is one of the most universally loved books we’ve had on the show. It’s incredibly personal, and yet i[…]
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Episode 127: Killers of the Flower Moon
In the 1920s, a disproportionate amount of people within the Osage nation were dying.
The US government had forcibly relocated the Osage to a section of Oklahoma with some of the largest deposits of oil in North America. This quickly made the Osage […]
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Episode 123: Cat Person
(Are we time traveling? Yes, a technical glitch set this episode back a few months…)
Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” appeared in December 2017 issue of The New Yorker, and promptly became an internet sensation.
S[…]
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