Books of Some Substance
By David Southard and Nathan Sharp
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Episodes: 106
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The unofficial podcast of literary misfits everywhere who want to engage with books of "substance" (i.e. serious, respected, heavy, philosophical, classic), or at least considered such.
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104 - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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103 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2/2)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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102 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1/2)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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101: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Season 2 Books Announcement
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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100 - End of an Era
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Special Announcement
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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99 - László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Guest: Derek Maine)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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98 - Jon Fosse's Melancholy I-II
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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97 - Franza Kafka's Diaries (Guest: Ross Benjamin)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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96 - Marcel Proust's Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time #6)
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May 12, 2023 |
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95 - Henri Lefebvre's The Missing Pieces (Guest: Tom Comitta)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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94 - Anton Chekhov's Difficult People (Guest: Bob Blaisdell)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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93 - Marcel Proust's The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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92 - Han Kang's The Vegetarian
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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91 - Marcel Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time #4)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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90 - Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (Guest: Seth of WASTE Mailing List)
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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89 - Marcel Proust's The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time #3)
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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88 - Alexander Theroux's Fables (Guest: George Salis)
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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87 - Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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86 - Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time #2)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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85 - Franz Kafka's Short Stories (The Judgment, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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84 - Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time #1)
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May 01, 2022 |
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83 - Bohumil Hrabal's Closely Watched Trains
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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82 - Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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81 - Renata Adler's Speedboat
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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80 - W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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79 - George Saunders' Tenth of December (Guest: Taylor Vick of Boy Scouts)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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78 - W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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77 - Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (Guest: Aatif Rashid)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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76 - Hermann Hesse's Siddartha
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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75 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 4
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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74 - Santiago Gamboa's Necropolis (Guest: Mark Haber)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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73 - Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (Guest: Ned Russin of Title Fight and Glitterer)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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72 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 3
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May 21, 2021 |
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71 - Hafiz's The Gift (Guest: Valerie June)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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70 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 2
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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69 - Cormac McCarthy's Suttree (Guest: Jesse Cash of ERRA)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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68 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 1
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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67 - Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (Guest: George Salis)
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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66 - Amy Hempel's Collected Stories (Guest: Alfred Brown IV)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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65 - Kōbō Abe's The Box Man
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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64 - Clarice Lispector's The Chandelier
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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63 - Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters (Guest: João Reis)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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62 - Jean Cocteau's The Holy Terrors (Guest: Alexis Marshall of Daughters)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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61 - Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves Examined
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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60 - M. John Harrison's Viriconium (Guest: Brett Campbell of Pallbearer
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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59 - J.G. Ballard's High-Rise (Guest: Alex Edkins of METZ)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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58 - Hubert Selby Jr.'s The Room (Guest: Michael Berdan of Uniform)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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57 - John Steinbeck's East of Eden Examined
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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56 - Ted Hughes' Crow Examined (Guest: Steve Von Till of Neurosis)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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55 - Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich Examined (Guest: Dylan Desmond of Bell Witch)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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54 - John Steinbeck's Cannery Row Examined
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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53 - Milan Kundera's The Joke Examined
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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52 - William H. Gass' Omensetter's Luck Examined
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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51 - Erecting Words: William H. Gass' Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
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May 12, 2020 |
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50 - Death by Abstraction: Albert Camus' The Plague
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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49 - Hell Yeah, Sex Week: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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48 - Space Anarchy!: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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47 - Avuncular Bumbler: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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45 - The Substance of Influence: Ross Farrar of Ceremony on Saul Bellow
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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44 - The Substance of Influence: Catherine Flynn on James Joyce
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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43 - Watt the Hell?: Samuel Beckett's Watt
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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42 - Didi Up Before You Gogo: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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41 - The Substance of Influence with Caleb Michael Sarvis
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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40 - #nihilism: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (Guest: Kathleen Founds)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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39 - A Good Misfit Is Hard to Define: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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May 07, 2019 |
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38 - The Substance of Influence with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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37 - The Miserable Pulp of Decay: László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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36 - This Fruit Is Dynamite!: Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Guest: Roanne Kantor)
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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35 - The Last Super Blood Wolf Moon: László Krasznahorkai's The Last Wolf
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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34: United in Putrification: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Guest: Summer Star)
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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33 - The Dance: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Guest: Dean Rader)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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32 - The Substance of Reality: César Aira's The Literary Conference
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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31 - This is the End(ing): Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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30 - Hemingway Short Story Month: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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29 - Hemingway Short Story Month: Hills Like White Elephants
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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28 - Hemingway Short Story Month: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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27 - Hemingway Short Story Month: The Killers
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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26 - Everything He Hated Was Here: Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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25 - Fly Uncomfortably: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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24 - A Disrupting Darkness: Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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May 30, 2018 |
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23 - No, I Wouldn't Call It That: Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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22 - Mirrors: On the Adaptations of Solaris
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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21 - The Time of Cruel Miracles: Stanisław Lem's Solaris
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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20 - Needs More Booster Drive: Stanisław Lem's Fiasco
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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19 - La Chingada Muerte: Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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18 - The Aura of Influence: How Carlos Fuentes Wrote Aura
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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17 - Second Sight: Carlos Fuentes' Aura
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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16 - It's Cold Out There: James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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15 - The Cup of Trembling: James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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14 - Once Hate is Gone: James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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13 - Obscure Revelations: Eileen Chang's Naked Earth
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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12 - War for Love: Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City
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May 24, 2017 |
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11 - Ultimate Truthiness: Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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10 - Sent Into Dark Corners: Hermann Hesse's Klingsor's Last Summer
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Feb 11, 2017 |
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9 - A Warped Tour of Cynicism: Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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8 - Sorry Sinclair: Sinclair Lewis' Early Business Stories
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Nov 16, 2016 |
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7 - End Without End: Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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6 - Between Poetry and Prose: Kawabata's Palm of the Hand Stories
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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5 - Life and Living with Henderson the Rain King
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May 31, 2016 |
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4 - Death and Dying with Saul Bellow
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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3 - The Master and Margarita
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Feb 20, 2016 |
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2 - Heart of a Dog
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Feb 20, 2016 |
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1 - Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Feb 20, 2016 |