Episodes
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Episode 36 - I Don't Even Have A Nutcracker
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
It's December. We've already put on our sweaters and chugged frankly criminal amounts of eggnog. Now it's time to talk about The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Episode 34 - Is This About Grape Jelly?
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Stay out of the Splash Zone™ because we got a real Wet Book™ on our hands! We're talking about Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also touch on the His Dark Materials trilogy and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Episode 32 - Pumpkin Spice Laundry Soap
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
We're kicking off the official month of pumpkins, candy corn, and murderous monsters by talking about Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest.
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Episode 30 - The Monster is Poetry
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
We're taking to the sea and talking about Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville. It's a surprisingly complex little story full of hot sailors and powerful punches. We also take a look at the 2019 Hugo Award Winners.
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Episode 28 - Jabbered At By Weirdos
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
For this episode we read The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys. It's a sequel of sorts to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and thus we must also tangle with the thorny legacy of HP Lovecraft.
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Episode 26 - The Ghost Is His Appendix
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Lie down on the couch and rest your vermiform appendix because it's time to talk about The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.
Monday Jun 17, 2019
Episode 24 - Gritty Ewoks
Monday Jun 17, 2019
Monday Jun 17, 2019
This jam-packed episode includes a lengthy discussion of The World for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin and a post-mortem on Andrea's Hugo Award winner reading project as well as many of those delightful tangents that podcast listeners crave.
Monday May 20, 2019
Episode 22 - Shut Up Saul
Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 2019
For this episode, we read What Kind of Day Did You Have? by Saul Bellow. We wrestle with the grumpy, male intellectual and defend the honor of M*A*S*H (the movie not the show). If you can get through all that then your reward is a pleaseant chat about A People's Future of the United States.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Episode 18 - Inhabiting The Bones of The Aristocracy
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
We're discussing Thee Blind Mice by Agatha Christie, a story about nursery rhymes, bad cops, and busybodies.
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Episode 16 - Read It Like Freud You Coward
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Join us as we try and figure out if Thomas Pynchon thinks he's funny as we tackle his 1966 postmodern mystery, The Crying of Lot 49.