A biweekly, book club podcast covering novellas and comic books.
Episodes
Dec 31, 2018
Dec 31, 2018
2hr 13 min
In our oversized end of year episode we cover the Wolves of Brooklyn by Catherynne Valente, Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer, and our top five reads of the year.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018
1hr 30 min
In this episode we discuss Sunbleached by Nathan Ballingrud and Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream-God by Hans Christian Andersen. This includes an exploration of the vampire as literary device and the trend of reapportioning fairy tales in modern works of fiction.
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018
1hr 33 min
This episode’s stories are St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges. (Warning: Borges’s name is mispronounced throughout the episode. Nate has been saddled with all the blame and he has been exiled to the underside of the flat earth as punishment.) We touch on a lot of stuff in this one from the cultural effects of schooling to the relationship between fiction and reality. Andrea shares her thoughts on N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy and Nate lists his favorite kinds of rolls.
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018
1hr 36 min
Are you a bad enough dude to save the president? Of course by "save" I mean "read the self-insert Homeland fanfic written by".
Our short stories for this episode are Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain by Yoon Ha Lee and Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever.
A good chunk of this episode is dedicated to Andrea explaining The President is Missing, a novel by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. A good chunk of this episode is dedicated to Nate struggling to comprehend the existence of The President is Missing, a novel by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.
Jul 2, 2018
Jul 2, 2018
1hr 41 min
We’re reborn and rebooted and we’ve got a whole new first episode for you.
Our short stories for this episode are The Dungeon Master by Sam Lipsyte and A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor.
Andrea shares her thought on The Shape of Water novel by Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, & Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre. Nate makes a very good ALF joke.
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