Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations - Literary Loitering 129

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So 2020 is over, but thanks to some cunning and stealthy arrangements our cultural anarchists hid away a couple of episodes.   This time around we ha...

Sherrington's New Steampunk Balls - Literary Loitering 128

14 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find something good to read, and along the way they find st...

Wes Anderson's Tommy Knockers - Literary Loitering 127

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cultural anarchy is the order of the day as the Literary Loitering gang sashay back into the foreground with a pocket full of news and other oddities....

Meat Safes And The Dictionary Sausage - Literary Loitering 126

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

These are strange times we're living in, which is why it's good to carry a stick as part of your EDC. A good stick is a very useful object as it can b...

The Liberace Pocket Guide (With Checklist) - Literary Loitering 125

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by travelling salesmen in the Old West).   In the news...

Nietzsche's Happy Days Fandom - Literary Loitering 124

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twit...

Tasty Steampunk Beef - Literary Loitering 123

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we go, and where it stops first is  … penguins vi...

James Joyce’s Undersea Pineapple - Literary Loitering 122

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back once again with those renegade masters of cultural anarchy, and this week we make our usual pit-stop to find out what everyone’s been r...

She's All About The Joust - Literary Loitering 121

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Weird things happen when you're locked up, and as usual it's up to Literary Loitering to ... poke gentle fun with a big stick ... at the books and art...

Attack Of The Light Novel Raccoon - Literary Loitering 120

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

These are strange times that we live in, but during these days of pandemic, social distancing and lockdowns, it's nice to find that the world of cultu...

Targaryen Pterosaurs Versus Raptor Jesus - Literary Loitering 119

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a short hiatus (for several reasons which include an attempted podcast coup-de-tat across The Geek Show), the cultural anarchists are back where...

4-Panel Takeover - Literary Loitering 118

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Takeover week here on The Geek Show Network, and since we were so rudely shoved out of our usual seat by the boys from Cinema Eclectica we deci...

Stupid Sexy Orwell - Literary Loitering 117

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After gathering once more in their secret hideout above a cafe on a high street in a small town that may or may not be near you (it’s not), the cult...

Adam Driver's Bioelectric Superpositions - Literary Loitering 116

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2020, and there may be many, many, many useful and constructive ways to start the new decade ... Or you can join our resident cultural anarchist...

Sexy Christmas Preambles And Footnotes - Literary Loitering 115

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Not only is it the most wonderful time of the year, it’s also our last episode of 2019, and what better way to sign off for the year than our annual...

Attack Of The Phallocratic Entryists - Literary Loitering 114

15 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump Jr. has apparently been upholding the family’s traditional methods of inflating book sales figures, which we really should have expecte...

Roger Bacon's Robot Head - Literary Loitering 113

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re kicking things off with one of our favourite books awards - the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year.   I...

Mastery Over The Power Of Denim - Literary Loitering 112

04 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The cultural anarchists are back for another not-so-serious look at the serious world of books and the arts, and kicking things off this week is the N...

Sentient Twitter Hot-Takes - Literary Loitering 111

19 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The ramshackle paddle-boat on the turbid rivers of culture returns for another meandering;y humorous look at the things that have been happening in th...

Golden Toilet 2: Electric Portaloo - Literary Loitering 110

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We begin this episode with the news that someone has stolen Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet from Blenheim Palace.    No, seriously. Somebody sto...

Willy Wonka’s Golden Toilet - Literary Loitering 109

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a strange few weeks in the arts world, beginning with Slovenia, which now has a rather odd transforming wooden statue of Donald Trump to g...

A Disappointing Lack Of Antlers - Literary Loitering 108

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After roaming the cultural wastelands for a while, we’re back with another sack full of scavenged items to poke fun at, and this week it’s a very ...

Literary Loitering 107 - Laser Bulge Versus Sexy Voodoo

24 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We kick things off this week with an excerpt from the 1960s sci-fi novel Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, which has a “hero” with a remarkably fa...

Literary Loitering 106 - Balls Deep With Geoffrey Of Monmouth

28 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The internet’s hand-basket of cultural anarchy return for more playful poking of the over-stuffed bears of books and the arts. Kicking things off th...

Literary Loitering 105 - My Laudanum Hell

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After a lengthy introduction about the pumping of jam and the lack of any noteworthy news relating to Game of Thrones, we kick things off with the les...

Literary Loitering 104 - Surprise Lions Cause Khaki Pants

10 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The goat herders of cultural anarchy return with another sack full of interesting and sometimes strange tidings from the arts world, and kicking thing...

Literary Loitering 103 - My Life in the Bum of Ghosts

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The cultural anarchists have gathered for another edition of the notorious books and arts podcast that keeps threatening to make sense while at the sa...

Literary Loitering 102 - Pro Evolution Narnia In Space

08 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Some time in the near yet seemingly distant past (which would be around the end of last year), the cultural anarchists gathered to offer each other se...

Literary Loitering 101 - Everybody Definitaly Poobs

24 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Literary Loitering soap box car speeds its way through the mean streets of cultural anarchy, with Graham, Andrew and Rob riding along on this fun ...

Literary Loitering 100 - 100 Years Of Very Successful Pimpery

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s party time for the cultural anarchists as we finally hit 100 episodes! Now that we’re officially fogeys of the podcasting world we cast a w...

Literary Loitering 99 - Salinger Versus Predator

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Don your leather jackets, wheel out your tricycles, and join Graham, Sarah and Rob for another anarchic slow-ride through arts, books and culture. K...

Literary Loitering 98 - Badgers Don't Knit

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Literary Loitering returns for another year of cultural anarchy, and with all the gang present and correct there should be nothing to stop us! Excep...

Literary Loitering 97 - There’s No Smut Like Sci-Fi Convention Smut

28 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year which can only mean one thing - the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award! Join Graham, Andrew, Sarah ...

Literary Loitering 96 - Franz Kafka, The Fifth Beatle

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The end of the year draws near, and with one episode left before a well deserved break it’s time for those anarchic and rambunctious rapscallions of...

Literary Loitering 95 - The House on Harry Hill

25 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Under normal circumstances (or what passes as normal around here), we’d take our rickety wagon of cultural anarchy and meander along until we found ...

Literary Loitering 94 - Tanned Gingers From Outer Space

07 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Apparently there’s a new way to become a published author - get a job in Trump’s White House and get fired from it. Our resident cultural anarch...

Literary Loitering 93 - 2 Little 2 Women

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week Graham and Andrew discover that they may not be the bastions of sanity and elegance that they thought they were as Producer Rob is away, so ...

Literary Loitering 92 - The Lost City of Scotlantis

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The junk wagon of cultural anarchy rolls into town again with Andrew, Graham and Producer Rob riding in the back … hang on … WHO’S DRIVING?  ...

Literary Loitering 91 - Gerry Anderson's Space Deliverance

02 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Has anyone else noticed that stories about the Trump presidency are beginning to sound more like stories from Game of Thrones that didn’t make the c...

Literary Loitering 90 - Twaddle, Youth Ninjas!

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There are three Brontë sisters, and since we’re missing a Graham this week we decided to find out which of our three intrepid cultural anarchists (...

Literary Loitering 89 - All Stork, No Chin

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The calamitous cultural anarchists have wandered haphazardly into town again, and this time they’ve brought a friend on their never-ending quest for...

Literary Loitering 88 - Tales From Fort Peddlesmut: The Big Cocky Dragon Slayer

21 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Don’t trust fairies and other fey creatures like unicorns. After that public service announcement it’s time for our resident cultural anarchists...

Literary Loitering 87 - He's Got The Whole World In His Koozie

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cultural anarchy reigns once more, and to kick things off this week we’ve got another Game-Of-Thrones-watch! So what has Grr Martin been up to thi...

Literary Loitering 86 - Captain Swallow: Scourge of All Seamen

16 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’re a man down this week, but since it’s the most sensible of our three amigos it’s up to Andrew and Producer Rob to offer a half-hearted Amig...

Literary Loitering 85 - Middle-Class Oedipus Rex

27 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An annual, grandiose and symbolic event is upon us once again, but before we get into all of that we find out that domestic dramas are apparently crow...

Literary Loitering 84 - Middle-Class Mutant Hipster Turtles

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’re a man down this week, but the solemn duty of being a cultural anarchist cannot be stopped by a mere superhero movie, no matter how justified t...

Literary Loitering 83 - John Updike's Pee Maze

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we get acquainted with the power of language via the medium of Sean Penn’s debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, after which we find th...

Literary Loitering 82 - Peter Rabbit's Soul-Sucking Eldritch Abomination

01 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as wel...

Literary Loitering 81 - Unlock The Summer Beef Closet

17 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soon as Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch are get...

Literary Loitering 80 - Jeff Goldblum: Interdimensional Sex God

25 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a decent hiatus for showbiz purposes, our infamous books, arts and culture podcast returns with all of the panache of a drunken screening of a C...

Literary Loitering 79 - Selfies With Malice and Forethought

17 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick. In other news, the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced...

Literary Loitering 78 - Lie Back and Think of Kierkegaard

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Get your ballet dancers and rollercoasters ready because it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and as always the nominations for Literary Review...

Literary Loitering 77 - The Handible of Justice

21 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Word of the Year is upon us once more, which heralds the steady march to Christmas – a time for twisted firestarters and Graham’s favourite in...

Literary Loitering 76 - Cockermouth Tends to Stick in the Mind

05 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While we were trying to figure if Biloxi in Mississippi was a real or imaginary we stumbled upon an amazing correction from the New York. Also, how do...

Literary Loitering 75 - Surfer Jesus and the Hang Ten Commandments

15 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While French philosopher Vincent Cespedes claims that his statement that Tintin is a girl was nothing more than fake news, we also discover that Roald...

Literary Loitering 74 - He Who Holds The Most Stickers is King!

02 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back for another romp through the cultured world and this time we bringing steamrollers, computer-written Game of Thrones, the moral impact of...

Literary Loitering 73 - Invest Your Didlum Wisely

13 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a mixed bag of happenings this week with unfair tax rules, books on politics by Nick Clegg, time capsules by Chuck Palahniuk, actors for Good O...

Literary Loitering 72 - A Face Only A Mother Could Punch

28 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While we lament the fact that Nipples On My Knee didn’t win the Diagram Prize, Grr Martin makes some interesting announcements about books. In other...

Literary Loitering 71 – Rob and Andrew’s Science Corner

14 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Austen finally arrives on the £10 note so everyone should be happy, right? Well, not quite ... In other news, J. K. Rowling’s habit of writ...

Literary Loitering 70 - Blistering Postman on Postman Action

27 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With new ideas about what the Voynich Manuscript actually is, disarmingly obvious sanity for libraries from Sydney, and more strange words added to th...

Literary Loitering 69 - Batman's Single Dad Fanfiction

16 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got a smorgasbord of strangeness this week with the Jeremy Corbyn colouring book, Anthony Burgess on pornography, DILF romances and eating boo...

Literary Loitering 68 - Dude, Wherefore Art Mine Chariot?

03 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’re a man down and suffering from the heat this week, but still we soldier on against history students, Shakesperian Ghostbusters, Pissing Pugs an...

Literary Loitering 67 - The Balaclava of Shame

24 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While Grr Martin continuing to work on the new Game of Thrones novel, a charity shop is inundated with copies of the Da Vinci Code, Helen Fielding win...

Literary Loitering 66 – Magic Balls and Where to Find Them

11 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Clinton is teaming up with James Patterson to write a thriller. Meanwhile a Harry Potter prequel is stolen and James Joyce’s sexy letters to No...

Literary Loitering 65 - It's a Mads, Mads, Mads, Mads World

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While the sales of real books rises and e-books fall, we discover a litany of complaints from a conservative politician (about a literary prize), Marc...

Literary Loitering 64 - Death By Weaponised Hairpiece

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’ve got a kid’s book award, Stephen King versus Donald Trump, the lesser spotted LaBeouf, Stephen King versus James Patterson (again),...

Literary Loitering 63 - Extremely Political Cream

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’ve got empty plinths, book burnings, accidental forest fires, National Index Day, white supremacists and big boy trucks. We also have a...

Literary Loitering 62 - Jackson Pollock All Over The Place

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’ve got book store conspiracies, political satire, elections dreams, naked men reading and ... ethical pirates? We also have a quiz ab...

Literary Loitering 61 – Roughing Up The Suspect

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we investigate the newest additions to the English language, bookshops that troll Piers Morgan on Twitter, the sequel to Neverwhere, people ...

Literary Loitering 60 – Hitler-Raptor and the Tyrannosaurus Reich

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week Grr Martin continues to tease his fans, disturbing photo mashups of Donald Trump emerge, we discover the real Mr. Darcy, the KLF decide to w...

Literary Loitering 59 – The Goondock Saints

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we've got news that isn't news, facts that aren't facts, blatant copyright infringement and secret underground Robin Hood library fraud. O...

Literary Loitering 58 - Dorky Daredevil Vs. The Comma Crusader

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2017, and we begin the year with Adventures in Moominland, Watership Down (again), blatant plagiarism and Cormac McCarthy's attitude towards punc...

Literary Loitering 57 – Mutton-Shunters Dressed As Lamb

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's that time of the year again, and Santa has delivered us a sack full of goodies thanks to the Literary Review's “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”. ...

Literary Loitering 56 – Spirit Roasts and Cocktails

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Strange things are afoot with ghost-written novels, spirit cooking and Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned. Our featured books are Old Venus (Co-edite...

Literary Loitering 55 – Gated Community Fantasy

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ice Cube will pay the role of Fagin in Disney's new musical adaptation of Oliver Twist (we're not kidding). We also find out more about Charlie the Ch...

Literary Loitering 54 – The Flavour of Existential Dread

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're top-filled with weirdness this week with surrealist cook books, scary clowns, Mein Drumpf and awards for good and bad sex. We also have a quiz...

Literary Loitering 53 – The Temple of Bad Ideas

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Things continue to be odder than normal with a new twist in a war of words, Scottish translations of English books and a comic-book about the history ...

Literary Loitering 52 – Licence To Quill

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's an odder than whatever passes for normal this week as Frederick Forsyth decides to stop writing thrillers, the Oxford Electronic Dictionary adds ...

Literary Loitering 51 – Big Papa Hemingway

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Aside from Elon Musk accidentally causing the price of a book to skyrocket and a Hemingway winning a Hemingway lookalike contest, the big news is that...

Literary Loitering 50 – Everything Needs More Swashbuckling

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week the English language obtained some strange new words and phrases, a Mexican artist creates The Trump Hut and Saddam Hussein wrote several fi...

Literary Loitering 49 - The Plums of Anger

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're a man down and two men up this week, and somewhere in that equation is an algorithm for best-sellers and a children's picture book about Donald ...

Literary Loitering 48 - Redneck Avengers

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There's never a dull moment when you have judo books for kids by Vladimir Putin, 9-year-old journalists scooping major networks and a set of rejected ...

Literary Loitering 47 –Anglo-Saxon Trolling

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

UNESCO have finally listed the Exeter Book as a principal cultural artefact. In other news, researchers prove that Batman is the most ill-equipped sup...

Literary Loitering 46 – Romans Be Crazy

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week researchers continue to try to prove things that are common sense, Tom Holland finds parallels between Donald Trump and Caligula, Dan Brown ...

Literary Loitering 45 - Tickle That Catastrophe

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s an assortment of oddments this week with Walt Whitman’s recently rediscovered 47,000 word treatise “Manly Health and Fitness”, scientists...

Literary Loitering 44 – The Cronenberg Colouring Book

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week Producer Rob is doing cartwheels because one of his favourite fantasy novel franchises – The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan – is getting...

Literary Loitering 43 – Eye Protection is Important

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In amongst the Dali diaries, more additions to Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series and our favourite childhood books, we found a story about a painting...

Literary Loitering 42 - Lovecraftsploitation

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Good Omens by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is getting a TV adaptation! In other news a company will increase your narcissism with selfie colo...

Literary Loitering 41 – The Siege Weapons of Outrageous Fortune

06 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we get off to a steamy start with the launch of the Literary Hub's prize for the “best erotic passage” (this is not a joke), before we d...

Literary Loitering 40 – Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a strange week with the passing of renowned architect Dame Zahar Hadid, the news that King Arthur may have been from Yorkshire, and a chil...

Literary Loitering 39 - The Noble Fort Peddlesmut

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There’s weirdness afoot as the NRA add firearms to fairytales, adult colouring books cause a global shortage of colouring pencils and Fifty Shades o...

Literary Loitering 38 - Inconceivable!

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The rambunctious scamps return for more literary conversation including the winner of the Bookseller Diagram prize, a “magical” collaboration betw...

Literary Loitering 37 - The Erms and Whys of Entropy Nerds

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We open this week’s show with the sad news that Harper Lee and Umberto Eco had passed away. In other news, the Devon town of Tiverton influenced J. ...

Literary Loitering 36 – The Shnonsense Has Hit The Fan

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We go off into the wild blue yonder once again with discussions about the eighth Harry Potter book, Dracula’s West Country origins, dealing with dru...

Literary Loitering 35 – How Do You Say "Chtonobdella Tanae"?

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We return for more book-related antics, and this week we discuss leeches named after Amy Tan, fairy tales that are older than people think, a writing ...

Literary Loitering 34 – Wigs Versus Ruffs

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We return for another year of books and other artsy things, and we kick off our first show of 2016 with news about Philip Pullman’s withdrawal as pa...

Literary Loitering 33 – Morrissey Versus The Daffodils

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our last show of 2015, but before we head off into the frozen waste we discuss the plagiarism scandal in poetry’s Stephen Spender prize, Morr...

Literary Loitering 32 – Aquaman’s Thermal Longjohns

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Loiterers are back with more arty goodness, and this week we’re discussing the unusual winners of the 2015 Turner Prize, Margaret Attwood’s gr...

Literary Loitering 31 - Bulbous Salutations To Everyone

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Those cheeky bookish boys return for more shenanigans, and this week they discuss Mein Kampf's first printing in Germany since World War 2, Donald Tru...

Literary Loitering 30 - How Do You Like Your Eggs

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Thing go South very quickly this week as we discuss the appointment of the UK's first comics professort at Lancaster University, James Dawson's respon...