Episode 80: Season 4 Wrap-Up
We are capping off Season 4 with a tribute to next season’s two-parter, Herman Melville’s sister-boinking polycule classic Pierre. We inhabit the mind...
Better Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective
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Three jerky socialists talk about books you've probably heard of. With Megan Tusler, Tristan Schweiger, and Katie K. *Note to listeners -- we're on break until Jan. 19. See you in 2020, comrades!
Episode 79: Wieland
This week we are thrilled to bring you Charles Brockden Brown’s 1798 novel Wieland. It’s about a guy who gets tricked by a ventriloquist into murderin...
Episode 78: Lucy
After devoting much of this podcast to the pressing topic of Dads Who Are A**holes (and have failsons), here’s our second back-to-back episode on Moms...
Episode 77: No-No Boy
It’s a drizzly day in Seattle in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957), and we’re feeling the mood. No-No Boy is about Ichiro Yamada, a Japanese-American man ...
Episode 76: Silas Marner
The Bible says something somewhere about children who are worth their weight in gold. Well, George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) explores what would hap...
Episode 75: The Great Gatsby
If you’re one of those try-hards who read this for the AP Lit test (and we are), you’ll be pleased to see us finally take this one on. This week we ha...
Episode 74: Dune
It is time to ride the worm and ask the eternal question “what’s in the box?” This week we have Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic about a future whe...
Episode 73: The Man of Feeling
If you like feckless boobs who are also giant crysacks (Megan does not), do we have a book for you! Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) is a c...
Episode 72: Lolita, Part 2
We close up our discussion of Lolita and try not to reflect too much on what has brought us to this point. We consider what sort of people would read ...
Episode 71: Lolita, Part 1
Our Season Four two-parter is on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), and there’s some truly gruesome material here. If you’ve ever wondered where a Vulg...