We Defy Augury

By Dave G. Truck

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Episodes: 82

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Thoughts and theories (loosely) inspired by literature, life, and all the rest.


Episode Date
More War
Dec 12, 2025
War, What IS It Good For?
Nov 05, 2025
Malcolm F$@king Gladwell!
Sep 25, 2025
Y'all Ready For This?
Sep 05, 2025
Tana vs. Tony: How to Solve a Murder Mystery
Aug 21, 2025
Bungle in the Jungle, Salt Life at the Beach
Aug 15, 2025
From Sayreville to Sicily: The Effect of Setting on the Psyche
Aug 01, 2025
Trust No One: Unreliable Narration in Life and Art
Jul 01, 2025
Weezer, Creativity, and the Nullity of Identity
Jun 16, 2025
The Serendipitous Miracle of Creativity
May 20, 2025
Money: It's a Gas
Mar 31, 2025
A Transcendental Perspective on the L.A. Fires
Jan 21, 2025
Medieval Times, Good Times?
Jan 13, 2025
The Suburban/American Scream
Dec 13, 2024
The Horror? The Horror!
Oct 24, 2024
Meet the New Me (Same as the Old Me)
Sep 16, 2024
Insane in the Mundane
Aug 27, 2024
Why Shakespeare?
Jul 16, 2024
The Play's the Thing: A Shakespeare Quiz
Jul 01, 2024
Shakespeare: Timeless (But a Man of His Times)
Jun 24, 2024
Stayin' Alive: Could You Survive the Apocalypse? Would You Want to?
May 19, 2024
What Is It Like to Be a Dog?
Apr 28, 2024
Strange Winds: A Meditation on Contamination
Apr 20, 2024
Earworm Exorcism!
Mar 27, 2024
Looming Existential Dread: Robotic and Real
Mar 04, 2024
Meta-Magical Mystery Tour
Feb 23, 2024
There's No "I" in AI
Feb 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Invades High School English Class
Jan 29, 2024
Infinite Wellness
Jan 15, 2024
Traveling Through the Dark (including an enlightening update)
Dec 31, 2023
Get Out? Or Stay In?
Dec 02, 2023
Capitalism . . . 1980s Style
Nov 19, 2023
Let's Talk About Celine Dion
Oct 23, 2023
Please Stand So Close to Me
Oct 04, 2023
Hey Sheeple! Powerful Eyes are Watching You
Sep 24, 2023
Spenser, Morality, and the Jock Ethic
Sep 01, 2023
Colleen Hoover and the Art of the Inner Monologue
Aug 23, 2023
Slouching Towards Something
Aug 21, 2023
The 1970s . . . Characterized by Four Crime Novels
Aug 13, 2023
Ringworld: Get Down with Some 70s Sci-fi
Aug 02, 2023
1215 AD: Terrible Music But Great Charters
Jul 21, 2023
Boil and Bubble, The Irish Troubles
Jul 15, 2023
Donna Tartt + Poisonous Snakes = Hell Yes!
Jul 03, 2023
Autopocalypse Now (Carmageddon Later)
Jun 23, 2023
Eclectic New Zealand Acid Trap
Jun 12, 2023
The (Murder) Mystery of Existence
May 30, 2023
Reality Loser
May 17, 2023
The Mysteries of Your Musical Taste: Part 2
Apr 29, 2023
The Mysteries of Your Musical Taste: Part 1
Apr 16, 2023
Revolutions, Reconstructions, and a Mountain Lion
Apr 07, 2023
Life is Scarier Than Death: A Case for Realistic Fiction
Mar 26, 2023
Mark Leyner vs. The Internet
Mar 14, 2023
A Couple of Crucial Creative Concepts
Feb 21, 2023
William Carlos Williams vs. Wallace Stevens: Adjective Smackdown!
Feb 14, 2023
Tomorrow, I Will Play Video Games, Tomorrow
Feb 08, 2023
Riley Sager, You Give Genre Fiction a Bad Name
Jan 30, 2023
Duck Duck Oil Sands
Jan 23, 2023
Beware The Candy House
Jan 17, 2023
Stars, Caves, and Everything in Between
Jan 10, 2023
Livin' La Vida Lapvona
Jan 02, 2023
Charismatic Megafauna
Dec 27, 2022
Adrift in the Digital Doldrums
Dec 19, 2022
Carrie Soto Is Wack
Dec 12, 2022
Liberation Daze
Dec 05, 2022
Southbound with S.A. Cosby
Nov 21, 2022
Apocalypse New
Nov 06, 2022
All the (not so) Pretty Horses
Oct 23, 2022
Playing the Tomorrow Game
Oct 06, 2022
Dave Grohl and Langston Hughes Rock the House
Sep 28, 2022
Revising Our Notions About Pirates
Sep 22, 2022
Funny How? David Sedaris and Randall Munroe
Sep 11, 2022
City on Fire . . . with Mob Tropes
Sep 05, 2022
Dr. Moreau (and his jaguar hybrid daughter)
Aug 29, 2022
The Road Not Taken is Dark and Deep
Aug 22, 2022
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Aug 15, 2022
John Franzen at the Crossroads of Hyperrealism
Aug 08, 2022
Ghettoside vs. Murderbot
Jul 30, 2022
The Foundling by Ann Leary
Jul 18, 2022
Colson Whitehead . . . Location, Location, Location
Jul 11, 2022
Beyond the Verge with Joy Williams
Jul 04, 2022
Beyond The Expanse
Jun 29, 2022
Geoff Dyer . . . Beginnings, Endings, and Indecision
Jun 26, 2022