Book Spider
By Xi Draconis Books
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Episodes: 89
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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor.
Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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S4 Ep47: Enjoying the Longest DeLillo - Underworld - Part 1
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May 04, 2024 |
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S4 Ep46: The Opacity of Violence: Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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S4 Ep45: The boundary between golden myth and secret history in Don DeLillo's Pafko at the Wall
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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S4 Ep43: Mysteries of connection and communication in Katie Kitamura's Intimacies
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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S4 Ep44: The Joy and Frustration in Not Going Too Deep Into the Details of Nabokov's Pale Fire
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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S4 Ep42: Sandra Newman's Julia, and George Orwell's 1984
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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S4 Ep41: Power, abuse, and doubled families in Otessa Moshfegh's Eileen
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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S4 Ep39: The Garden of Seven Twilights and the Postmodern Mega-Novel
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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S4 Ep40: The Complexity of Stasis in Lexi Freiman's The Book of Ayn
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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S4 Ep38: David Nikki Crouse's I'm Here: Alaska Stories
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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S4 Ep37: Ben Okri's The Famished Road and the worst tendencies of magical realism
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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S4 Ep36: The Future of Literacy and Vernor Vinge's Novel, Rainbows End
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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S4 Ep35: Literary Olives and the Distortions of the Moment in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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S4 Ep34: Is it ethically okay to enjoy the work of monstrous artists?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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S4 Ep33: Truth, Morals, and Intention in Literature: Aristotle's Poetics and More
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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S4 Ep32: Cultural Insensitivity and Beautiful Language in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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S4 Ep30: Interpolations and Internal States in Checkout 19
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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S4 Ep31: The Art of Making Meaninglessness Comforting in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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S4 Ep29: Moral Ambiguity and Magical Fetishism in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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S4 Ep28: Female Perspectives and the Weight of Submission in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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S4 Ep27: What the hell is happening in our heads in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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S4 Ep26: Empathy and Indeterminacy in Russell Banks' Lost Memory of Skin
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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S4 Ep25: On Quantum Theory and Social Justice in Namwali Serpell's The Furrows
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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S4 Ep24: Humor, Madness, and Existential Dread in Cormac McCarthy's newest duology: The Passenger and Stella Maris
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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S4 Ep23: Erotic Grotesqueries in The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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S4 Ep22: Uncanny Perspectives on Art and Love in Robert Aickman's Painted Devils
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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S4 Ep21: Authenticity in Drew Hayden Taylor's AlterNatives
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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S4 Ep20: Being Mixed and Being American: Jean Toomer's Cane
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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S4 Ep19: On Irresolution and Indeterminacy in Dana Spiotta's Wayward
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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S4 Ep18: Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half Past Nine
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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S4 Ep17: Psychological Dread in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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S4 Ep16: Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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S4 Ep15: Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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S4 Ep14: Michael Flynn's Eifelheim
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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S4 Ep13: Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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S4 Ep12: Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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S4 Ep11: Human and Nonhuman Minds in Paul Auster's Timbuktu and Olaf Stapledon's Sirius
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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S4 Ep10: Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth
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May 16, 2022 |
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S4 Ep9: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
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May 08, 2022 |
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S4 Ep8: Natalie Kusz's Road song
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May 02, 2022 |
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S4 Ep7: Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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S4 Ep6: Graham Swift's Waterland
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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S4 Ep5: George Orwell's Coming Up For Air
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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S4 Ep4: J.G. Ballard's High Rise and the Dystopia of Modernity
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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S4 Ep3: Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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S4 Ep2: Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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S4 Ep1: Can Xue's Love in the New Millennium
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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S3 Ep15: On Michael Crichton's Sphere
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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S3 Ep14: On Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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S3 Ep13: On Keith Gessen's A Terrible Country
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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S3 Ep12: On Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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S3 Ep11: On Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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S3 Ep10: On William Shakespeare's Othello and Paula Marantz Cohen's Of Human Kindness
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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S3 Ep9: On Pola Oloixarac's Mona
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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S3 Ep8: On Brian Catling's The Vorrh
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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S3 Ep7: On Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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S3 Ep6: On Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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S3 Ep5: On Jess Walters' Cold Millions
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May 28, 2021 |
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S3 Ep4: On Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
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May 17, 2021 |
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S3 Ep3: On Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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S3 Ep2: On Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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S3 Ep1: On Flannery O'Connor's Wiseblood
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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S2 Ep17: On John Steinbeck's East of Eden
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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S2 Ep16: On Gustav Meyrink's The Golem
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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S2 Ep15: On Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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S2 Ep14: On Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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S2 Ep13: On Jia Qing Wilson-Yang's Small Beauty
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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S2 Ep12: An Interview with Adi Callai, Author of The Sodomites
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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S2 Ep11: On Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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S2 Ep10: On Homer's The Odyssey
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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S2 Ep9: On Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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S2 Ep8: On Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge and Its Sequel, Myron
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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S2 Ep7: On John Milton's Paradise Lost
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May 08, 2020 |
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S2 Ep6: On Daryl Farmer's Where We Land
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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S2 Ep5: On Haruki Murakami's 1Q84
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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S2 Ep4: On John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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S2 Ep3: On Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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S2 Ep2: On Dante's Disneyland Inferno, by Sun City Girls
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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S2 Ep1: On Albert Camus' The Fall
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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S1 Ep10: On My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Suffering Channel
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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S1 Ep9: On Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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S1 Ep8: On Patrick Barney's Misfit the Wanderer
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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S1 Ep7: On Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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S1 Ep6: On Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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S1 Ep5: On Toril Moi's Revolution of the Ordinary
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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S1 Ep4: On Robert Browning's Caliban Upon Setebos
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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S1 Ep3: On Robert Coover's Gerald's Party
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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S1 Ep2: On Fran Ross's Oreo
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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S1 Ep1: An Interview with Jennifer Lagier, Author of Trumped Up Election
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May 31, 2019 |