Upper Middlebrow
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Episodes: 113
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A podcast in which we discuss high-craft works of popular culture
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Episode 101: ‘What Thrums Below,’ or Herman Melville’s Billy Budd
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May 18, 2026 |
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Episode 100: “Dutiful Dreams,” or Project Hail Mary 2026 Film
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May 04, 2026 |
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Project Hail Mary Part I (REPOST)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Episode 99: More Robot Friends!: Isaac Asimov’s ‘Robot Visions’ Part 1 with Justin Reich.
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Episode 98: ‘Minor League Stew,’ or John Feinstein’s Where Nobody Knows Your Name, Part II
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Episode 97: “Baseball’s Ballast,” or John Feinstein’s Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in The Minor Leagues of Baseball
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Episode 96: “The Clustercus,” or David Halberstam’s The Amateurs, Part II
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Episode 95: “Don’t Catch Crabs,” or David Halbertstam’s The Amateurs, Part I
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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October 6th: Live Draft Coming Soon!
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Episode 94: “Chewing Glass” or Tim Krabbe’s The Rider
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Episode 94: “A Swiftly Flattening Universe,” or Cixin Liu’s Death’s End, Part II
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Episode 93: “Post Humanity Blues,” or Cixin Liu’s Death’s End Part I
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Episode 92: “It’s So Dark,” or Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest, Part II
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Episode 91: “All Chess Pieces, No Chess,” or Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest, Part I
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Episode 90: “An Egg Slicer Through a Supertanker,” or Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem, Part II
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Review: John Scalzi’s “When the Moon Hits Your Eye”
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Episode 89: “A Creeping Awareness” or Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem, Part I
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Episode 88: “Creation’s Folly,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part II
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Digression: Solo Canoe Sailing on Long Lake
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Digression, From the North Woods with Justin Reich
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May 22, 2025 |
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Episode 87: “A Dude who Made a Dude,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part I
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May 19, 2025 |
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Episode 86: “A Study in Structure,” or Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
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May 09, 2025 |
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Ep 85, “Science vs. Evil” or Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, Part II
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Save the Date: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Live Taping, with Jeph Wilkinson.
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Episode 84: “Unnatural Intimacy,” or Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Part I
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Episode 83: “I Made a Friend, and Now He’s Dead” or Liliana Calvani’s Ripley’s Game
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Episode 82: “Cocaine was Invented for Times Like These,” or Roger Spotiswoode’s Ripley, Underground
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Episode 81: “LA Light, LA Darkness,” or Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye w/Professor Peter Lunenfeld
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Episode 80: “Frames, Trains, and Burning Automobiles” or Wim Wenders The American Friend
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Episode 79: “A Creeping Tom,” or René Clement’s Plein Soleil
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Episode 78: “Our Robot Friends, Part II,” or Ted Chiang’s Exhalation
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Episode 77: “A Soup of Dreams,” or James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes, Part II
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Episode 76: Philip Marlow in Space or James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes Part 1
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Episode 75: “It Was Capitalism All Along!” or China Miéville’s The City and The City, Part II
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Episode 74: “Our Robot Friends (and Enemies),” with Leah Jones
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Episode 73: “Crosshatched,” or China Mieville’s The City and the City Part I
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Episode 72: “Red Herringfest?” or Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Episode # 71 The Night of a Thousand Crimes, or Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye” Part II.
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Episode 69: “A Surfeit of Injustice,” or Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, Part I
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Episode 68: “From Fiends to Friends,” or Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, Part II
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Episode 67: Revenge of the Jock-Nerds (Season 3 DRAFT)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Episode 66: “Russia With Love (Nesting Dolls),” or Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends Part I
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Episode 65: “Our Play with Louis,” or Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Episode 64: “A Cloud on a String,” or Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Uncle Baggya Previews the Live Draft
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Episode 63: “Cherries, Anyone?” or The National Theatre’s Production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Episode 62: “To Sell or Not to Sell…Is That Really the Question?” or Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Part I
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Episode 61: “Mathematical” Courage or Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner Part II
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Episode 60: “Zero Sum Narrative,” or Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Episode 59: “The Bathetic Fallacy,” or Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Episode 58: “The Deus is in the Details,” or Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Part II
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Episode 57: “Highest Stakes Scrabble,” or Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Part I
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Episode 56: “Philosophial Poetry,” or Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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“The Curious Case of the Beard and the Mustache,” or our final Ripley coda
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Episode 54: “A Brilliant Disguise,” or Steve Zaillian’s Ripley, Part II
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Episode 53: “Watch Out for Busts,” or Steve Zaillian’s Ripley
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May 23, 2024 |
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TEASER: Steve Zallian’s (and Netflix’s) Ripley
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May 13, 2024 |
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Digression: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything with Arionne NettlesDigression:
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May 02, 2024 |
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REPOST: Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part II
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Episode 51: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part I (REPOST)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 50: “Nothing is More Important,” or Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Part II
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Digression: Underdogs, Comebacks, and Seafood Substitutes, or Baseball Movies with Jason Herbert
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Episode 48: “So Long, and Thanks for All The Squid,” or Viet Than Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Part I
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Digression: Literary Theologies with Beatrice Marovich
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Episode 46: “Yelling ‘Racism’ in a ‘Post-racist’ World,” or Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Part II
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Episode 44: “Faintly Dickensian?” or Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Part I
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Episode 44: “Put On Your Seatbelt,” or Alexander Payne’s Sideways
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Digression: Demented Whimsy with Joshua Mohr.
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Episode 42: “Waiting for Prima,” or Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci’s Big Night
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Coming Soon: A Live Discussion of Sideways!
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Episode 41: “Borrowing the Bigness,” or Sandra Nettlebeck’s Mostly Martha
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Episode 40: “All’s Well That Tastes Well,” Or Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Episode 39: “A Fistful of Noodles,” or Juzo Itami’s Tampopo
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Episode 38: “Michael a l’Orange,” or Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Episode 37: “Maxing Out the Turtle Budget,” or Axel Gabriel’s Babette’s Feast
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Digression II: Foodie Films Preview with Chewing host Monica Eng
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Season Two Trailer!
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Episode 35: “DON’T Save the Cat!” or Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, Part II
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Episode 34: “Einstein, Hemingway, and Vietnam,” or Joe Haldeman’s Forever War, Part I
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Episode 33: “Real Sheep Don’t Buy Themselves,” or Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Part II
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Episode 32: “Keeping up with the Jetsons,” or Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Part I
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Episode 31: “Frogmarched to the Head,” or William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Part II
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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DIGRESSION I: Pas de Joie de Neuromancer
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Episode 29: “Blind Animal Panic,” or William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Part I
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Episode 28: “Tales of Teachers,” with Educator Justin Reich
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Episode 27: “Don’t Believe your Eyes,” or Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Part II
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Episode 26: “Uplift!” or Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Episode 25: “Deus Ex Rockina,” or N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, Part II
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 24: “How to Make a Pangea Omelette,” or N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Episode 23: “In Search of the Perfect Read, Part III,” or “Baseball, Massholes, and Interspecies Dorking”
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Episode 22: “In Search of the Perfect Read, Part II” or “Summer Reading for Grown Ups.”
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Episode 21: “In Search of the Perfect Read, Part I” or “Summer Reading for Teens”.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Episode 20: “The Eye of the Speculator,” or Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Part II
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May 25, 2023 |
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Episode 19: “A Wizard of Earthseed,” or Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Part I
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May 15, 2023 |
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Episode 18: “No Apocalypse,No Foul,” Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, Part II
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May 04, 2023 |
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Episode 17: “Bromancing the Stone Carapace,” or Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Episode 16: “Big Claws! Big MECHANICAL Claws!” or Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest, Part II
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Episode 15: “Big Tank! Big NUCLEAR Tank!” Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest, Part I
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Episode 14: “The Impervious Battleship Egan,” or A Visit From the Goon Squad, Part II
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Episode 13: “Time the Ravager” or Jennifer Egan’s 2010 A Visit From the Goon Squad, Part I
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Episode 12: “Hitler’s Springtime + Ziegfried’s Follies,” or Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, Part III
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Episode 11: “The Utopia of Fresno” or Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, Part II
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Episode 10: “Underlying Math Skeleton” or Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, Part I
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Episode 9: “Underwater Burning Man,” or Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, Part II
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Episode 8: “Stephenson’s a flame-kindling kind of guy,” or Upper Middle Brow Phones a Friend
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Episode 7: Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, Part One, or “Nitrates, Nitrites, Nitrotes, and Nitrutes”
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Episode 6: Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac, Part Two, or “Cran-Razz with your Deus ex Machina?”
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Episode 5: Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac, or “Poorly Foreshadowed Dorking”
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Episode 4: Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part Two, or “Coach Class on the White Boat”
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Episode 3: Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Part One
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Episode 2: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Part Two
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Episode 1: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Part One
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Trailer: Upper Middle Brow LIVE Tomorrow
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Nov 21, 2022 |