Desperate Readers
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Episodes: 51
Description
Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
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Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
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L. Napoleon and Mephistopheles: The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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XLIX. The Most Righteous and Appalling: Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
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May 15, 2025 |
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XLVIII. The Ways of White Folks: Passing by Langston Hughes
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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XLVII. The Misfit and the Grandmother: A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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XLVI. Touching Grass Is Not Enough: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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XLV. Waves of Violence: Barn Burning by William Faulkner
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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XLIV. El llano en llamas: The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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XLIII. Not a Podcast: Not a River by Selva Almada
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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XLII. Liars and Mothers: The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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XLI. What Women Most Desire: The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffery Chaucer
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May 24, 2024 |
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XL. RIP Chaucer, You Would've Loved the Godfather: The Miller's Tale and the Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
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May 09, 2024 |
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XXXIX. Whan that Aprill: The Canterbury Tales (Opening Prologue and the Knight's Tale) by Geoffery Chaucer
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May 02, 2024 |
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XXXVIII. Is-slottet: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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XXXVII. I Was Taking a Drive: A Shining by Jon Fosse
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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XXXVI. Bro!: Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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XXXV. Ethics and Aesthetics: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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XXXIV. Life Is Hard, but You Must Be Harder: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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XXXIII. How Did they ever Make a Podcast of Lolita: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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XXXII. It Gives Two Turns!: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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XXXI. The Labyrinth of Inhumanity: The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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XXX. Rage (or What is Achilles’s Problem?): the Iliad by Homer
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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XXIX. Desperate and Visceral: Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Bonus: The House of Asterion by Jorges Luis Borges
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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XXVIII. Aztec Eyes: Axolotl by Julio Cortázar.
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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XXVII. Of Things Transformed: The Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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XXVI.The Meme-morphosis: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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XXV. The Duty of Gender: The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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XXIV. Let’s Get Motherly: Medea by Euripides
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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XXIII. Murder to Murder: Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem
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May 24, 2023 |
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XXII. The Phoenician Sailor and the Hyacinth Girl: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.
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May 19, 2023 |
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XXI. What Helps Us Remember: Potiki by Patricia Grace
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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XX. 1647, Santiago: The Earthquake in Chile by Heinrich von Kleist
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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XIX. Dreaming Freedom: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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XVIII. Manuscripts Don’t Burn: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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XVII. What’s your sign?: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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XVI. Purity and Perversion: Sanctuary by William Faulkner
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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XV. Will There Be Another Spring?: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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XIV. A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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XIII. On the Horizon: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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XII. Let’s Get… Platonic?: Symposium by Plato
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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XI. Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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X. Fire and Madness: Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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IX. Ooh, It Gets Dark!: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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VIII. How to Navigate the Sea: Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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VII. Subversive Voyeurism: The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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VI. Go West, Irish Man: The Dead by James Joyce
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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V. Make Your Marriage Bed and Lie in it: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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IV. Let’s Get Bacchic: The Bacchae by Euripides
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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III: Duties and Resemblances: Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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II: Heritage (or Raising the Bar): the Odyssey by Homer
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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I. Seaweed and the Abyss: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
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Nov 02, 2022 |