A biweekly, book club podcast covering novellas and comic books.
Episodes
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
We're talking about The Sandman Vol 7. - Brief Lives. It's a devastatingly emotional story about bear piss, strip clubs, and avian driving lessons.
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Strap in and activate your blast shields for a discussion of surly robots, bad employees, and the value of cheesy tv as we discuss All Systems Red by Martha Wells.
Monday Jan 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
We're talking about The Sandman: Fables & Reflections. It's another collection of one-off stories that cover topics ranging from doomed kings to talkative birds.
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Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
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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Saturday Dec 22, 2018
Saturday Dec 22, 2018
We're back in The Dreaming for fifth volume of The Sandman, A Game of You.
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
In this episode we dig into Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez.
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Friday Nov 23, 2018
We're talking about the fourth volume of The Sandman and it's a complicated story about heaven, hell, dinner parties, business meetings, boarding schools, and balloons.
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Monday Oct 29, 2018
Monday Oct 29, 2018
As a spooky, ooky Halloween treat we decided to read The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker and watch the film adaption Hellraiser. Andrea describes her experience rewatching the scariest movie she had ever seen and Nate somehow draws a comparison between Hellraiser and Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
We read The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country and that means we're talking about cats, fairies, metafiction, superhero support groups, and Nate's effusive love for a single page of comics that's just a guy quoting Shakespeare.
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Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
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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