A biweekly, book club podcast covering novellas and comic books.
Episodes
Monday Sep 10, 2018
Monday Sep 10, 2018
In this episode, we return to The Dreaming to discuss Sandman Vol. 2 The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Micheal Zulli, Chris Bachalo, Steve Parkhouse, and Dave McKean. This one has it all: serial killer, talking birds, references to early 20th century comic strips, and immortal drinking buddies.
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
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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Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
This episode is entirely consumed by a discussion of The Sandman, volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Dave McKean.
Heads up: Nate makes several mistakes in this episode. These mistakes include, repeatedly referring to DC's Vertigo imprint as Image and saying that Gardner Fox created the Silver-Age Flash when it was Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino. He has been exiled to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so he may atone for his info crimes.
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Monday Jul 16, 2018
Monday Jul 16, 2018
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.
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
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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