American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
Episodes
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 25: The Cosmic Poachers
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
And we are back to looking at Dick's early short stories. In this episode on "The Cosmic Poachers", we get an alien tale with the most banal invasion ...
Episode 47: John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown (1)
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we take a look at the quitessential American rural mystic in John Steinbeck's underappreciated To a God Unknown.
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.6: Solar Lottery, Part 6
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode on Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery, I take a closer look at some of the themes of the novel and give my final thoughts. Thanks fo...
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.5: Solar Lottery, Part 5
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we finish up with the chapter summaries for Solar Lottery. What will happen to this world when the crisis passes? Dick does not give ...
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.4: Solar Lottery, Part 4
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I am back from the USA! Thanks for waiting. Here is the next part on Solar Lottery. It is a very action and plot-heavy section, but still has some gre...
Episode 46: John Steinbeck, Pastures of Heaven (2)
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I look at the second half of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven. Sorry for the delays in publishing these episodes. I am enjoying my...
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.3: Solar Lottery, Part 3
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery.
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.2: Solar Lottery, Part 2
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Part two (Chapter 4-6) of Philp K. Dick's Solar Lottery. In a world based on randomness, anything can happen.
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 24.1: Solar Lottery, Part 1
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
And we come to Dick's first novel, Solar Lottery. In this episode we will look at the first three chapters of the book, which does a lot to set up the...
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 23: The Indefatigable Frog
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Philip K. Dick takes on Zeno's paradox in "The Indegatigable Frog".
Episode 45: John Steinbeck, Pastures of Heaven (1)`
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we start a new series on John Steinbeck, beginning with his novel of short stories The Pastures of Heaven.
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 22: The Variable Man
22 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club we take on one of my favorite early Dick stories (novella to be honest), "The Variable Man". (I ment...
Episode 44: Thomas Paine: Age of Reason (2)
22 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we say goodbye to my favorite founder, Thomas Paine, as we look at the second part of Age of Reason. Next up....John Steinbeck.
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 21: Expendable
16 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the bugs decide to do us in? What if the real ancient old ones are insects? Find out in episode of the Philip K. Dick Book as we loo...
Episode 43: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1)
16 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we begin to close the book on Thomas Paine with the work that may be his most infamous or his most enduring, The Age of Reason.
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 20: Tony and the Beetles
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In "Tony and the Beetles", Philip K. Dick provides an allegory of postcolonialism and the impact of white privledge on people as they grow up.
Episode 42: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (2)
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we examine part 2 of The Rights of Man, where Paine gives some deatils on the functions of democratic societies and governments.
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 19: Impostor
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Impostor" is Dick's first published robot story that explored the idea of the machine programmed to think its human.
Episode 41: Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man (1)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episide we begin a two-episode series on The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution. In the first part of this importa...
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 18: The Cookie Lady
04 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club we examine "The Cookie Lady," Dicks retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story. But what does a story ab...
Episode 40: Thomas Paine: The Crisis and Other Pamphlets
04 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the remainder of Paine's pamphlets, including the final Crisis articles and "Agrarian Justice."
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 17: Martians Come in Clouds
01 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In "Martians Come in Clouds", Philip K. Dick takes on lynching and race relations in the suburbs. Or maybe he is just writing science fiction.