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Stop! Homer Time, a miniseries on the Odyssey - Episodes 3 & 4

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The experiment continues! It's the show-within-a-show where we read Emily Wilson's new translation of The Odyssey a few books at a time and having a m...

Ep 310 - Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You may remember Dennis Lehane's 2001 novel Mystic River from the award-winning 2003 film of the same name. What elevates this murder mystery from oth...

Ep 309 - The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells

16 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Just what the heck is a Ya-Ya, anyway?? We tackle this and other topics—including physical abuse, parenthood, midlife crises, and other topics we ha...

Ep 308 - A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

V.E. Schwab's popular Shades of Magic series started with this novel about Kell, a magic man with a magic jacket, and Lila, a thief who dreams of beco...

Ep 307 - Redwall (Live from Philly), by Brian Jacques

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode on Brian Jacques' Redwall was recorded live at the 6th Annual Philadelphia Podcast Festival. Thanks to everyone who was able to jo...

Ep 306 - Aristotle Detective, by Margaret Doody (Bonus Episode)

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You know Aristotle, the Greek philosopher from the 4th century BCE? What if he was a detective who helped solve mysteries? That's exactly what's going...

Ep 305 - The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We didn’t plan to discuss Cristina Henríquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans during a particularly fraught period in the United States’ immigra...

Ep 304 - Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What was it about the first Mistborn book that netted Brandon Sanderson a job wrapping up the Wheel of Time series? That's the central question we att...

Ep 303 - Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke’s first successful novel, starts as a story about a surprisingly chill (if mysterious) alien invasion, but event...

Ep 302 - I Heard the Owl Call My Name, by Margaret Craven

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Craven's 1967 novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name is about a young Anglican vicar's work with a First Nations parish in British Columbia. The ...

Stop! Homer Time, a miniseries on the Odyssey - Episodes 1 & 2

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a new experiment! For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be reading Emily Wilson's new translation of The Odyssey a book at...

Ep 301 - The Power, by Naomi Alderman

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What would you do if you could suddenly zap someone with an electrical charge? What would you do if someone you knew could do it, but you couldn't? Wh...

Ep 300 - Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

21 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate our 300th episode than with a *biting* discussion of Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster hit Twilight.Will kl...

Ep 299 - Rock and Roll Mystery (Choose Your Own Adventure) by Jim Wallace

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We head back to the Choose Your Own Adventure well this week to solve some rock and roll mysteries - will we get brainwashed by a cult? Will we save r...

Ep 298 - Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, by Betty MacDonald

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If your kid's all strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? PIGGLE-WIGGLE!Betty MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series chronicles a kindly magi...

Ep 297 - Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald (Bonus Episode)

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For April, we covered W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, a dense yet moving novel about a man discovering his stolen past. The book's themes get a little heavy...

Ep 296 - Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious (w/ The Librarian Is In)

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Who better to help us discuss Grace Metalious' 1956 novel about small-town scandal than a couple of Big Apple librarians like Gwen Glazer and Frank Co...

Ep 295 - Passion's Promise, by Danielle Steel

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kezia Saint Martin is an unwilling heiress, a woman who uses multiple pseudonyms so she can do the work she loves. Lucas John is a paroled convict, a ...

Ep 294 - The New Life, by Orhan Pamuk

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"I read a book one day and my whole life changed," opens Orhan Pamuk's best-selling novel The New Life. Like much of Pamuk's work, The New Life dives ...

Ep 293 - Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narro...

Ep 292 - "A" is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery series stars Kinsey Millhone, a no-nonsense private eye operating in California. "A" is for Alibi is the first book for...

Ep 291 - Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gone With The Wind is an American classic, both in that it is a classic book written by an American author and in that it does a bad job wrangling wit...

Ep 290 - Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

E.B. White's Charlotte's Web is a beloved classic for plenty of reasons. It's got bloodthirsty spiders, hungry hungry rats, and some terrific, radiant...

Ep 289 - The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Earth were flat and also being carried by four gigantic elephants who were all standing on the bac...

Ep 288 - The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

05 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife is equal parts romance and sci-fi. It's a love story about the limits of free will and the power o...

Ep 287 - The Cranes Dance, by Meg Howrey (Bonus Episode)

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For February's bonus episode, we spin, twirl, and jump our way through a conversation about Meg Howrey's The Cranes Dance. This book about sisterhood ...

Ep 286 - Kindred, by Octavia Butler

26 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Octavia Butler’s Kindred is ostensibly a sci-fi/fantasy novel about time travel, but it also draws heavily from the tradition of first-person slave ...

Ep 285 - The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and...then what? N.K. Jemisin's award-winning novel The Fifth Season kicks off her Broken Earth trilogy with a tale about...

Ep 284 - Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

12 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is about a lot of things—it's a love story, it's an immigrant story, it's a story about the Obama moment—but...

Ep 283 - Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward

05 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jesmyn Ward's second novel Salvage the Bones is the story of a family in rural Mississippi in the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina's landfa...

Ep 282 - The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin

29 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of Ursula K. Le Guin's tragic passing earlier this month, this week's episode covers her Nebula-award winning The Dispossessed. Part of th...

Ep 281 - The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses may be the first book we've covered to have caused a full-blown International Incident. Rushdie's notorious fourth...

Ep 280 - The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne

15 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shhhhhh, everyone, come in closer. Closer! Because we're about to tell you all about The Secret, and we don't want anyone to overhear. Of course, if t...

Ep 279 - The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

08 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A boy and his wolf cross the border into Mexico and things go...rather poorly. That's the premise of Cormac McCarthy's 1994 novel The Crossing. It's a...

Ep 278 - Beauty and the Beast, by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (LIVE from the Fall For The Book Festival)

01 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our first episode of the new year is actually from our live show at the Fall For The Book Festival in Fairfax, VA. Andrew read the original version of...

Ep 277 - The Santa Clause, by Daphne Skinner

25 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's a family affair for this week's episode, in which Craig, Andrew, Laura, and Suzannah gather 'round the fire to discuss Daphne Skinner's novelizat...

Ep 276 - The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Markus Zusak's breakthrough novel The Book Thief is the story of a young girl in 1940s Germany told by Death itself. It is equal parts heartening and ...

Ep 275 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s show, we ponder the meaning of life, the universe, and everything via Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a radio-pl...

Ep 274 - Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (Bonus Episode)

09 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our "November" bonus episode, the final entry in "stuff we've read month," is Ray Bradbury's old high school lit class standby Fahrenheit 451. Needles...

Ep 273 - Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

04 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Grab your tissues everyone! Wilson Rawls' first novel Where the Red Fern Grows is notorious for how sad it is, and the reputation is well-deserved. It...

Ep 272 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by JK Rowling

27 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For this week’s show, we attempt to figure out what we can add to a conversation about one of the most-discussed books in all of modern literature! ...

Ep 271 - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Strap in and blast off to space with us Ender Wiggin, the pint-sized protagonist of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.It's the story of an ultra-talente...

Ep 270 - The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

13 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we put on our flapper outfits and dance back to the Roaring Twenties! F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby bears us ceaselessly back int...

Ep 269 - A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle

06 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Travel through time and space with us to the planet Camazotz and beyond! Learn about love, dictatorships, and cosmic Christian centaurs with us and Ma...

Ep 268 - Ghost Stories and Urban Legends #2 (Bonus Episode)

03 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Trick or Treat! We tricked you - it's a treat! Here's an all-new batch of spooky stories and educational hauntings. The podcast is coming from in...

Ep 267 - Interview With The Vampire, by Anne Rice

30 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week's penultimate Spooktober entry is Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, a first-person vampire story that has spawned nearly two dozen seq...

Ep 266 - Bag of Bones, by Stephen King

23 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Natasha of the Unspoiled Book Club podcast joins us to hash out Stephen King’s Bag of Bones, a book about being a middlebrow fiction writ...

Ep 265 - House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski

16 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is out to get you. It is an antagonistic book that's larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. It's a...

Ep 264 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe

09 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we take a double-dip into Edgar Allan Poe's spooky catalogue—Craig reads about the Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Andrew sips from the Cas...

Ep 263 - Overdue Q&A #2 (Bonus Episode)

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we dive back into the mailbag! We didn't read a book but we did read a bunch of great questions from you about how we make the show, how ...

Ep 262 - 99 Fear Street (The First Horror), by R.L. Stine

02 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ready to get SPOOKY??? It's the first week of our 2017 Spooktober spectacular, and we're here to talk about R.L. Stine's teen horror series 99...

Ep 261 - Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding

25 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Books read 1, alcohol units 4 (bad), chuckles 179 (excellent).This week we tackle Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, a book that's carried a long...

Ep 260 - The Traitor, by Michael Cisco

18 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How Weird do you like your fiction? Do you dig bogeymen who eat ghosts? Narrators who repeat themselves all the time? How about soul-crushing nihilism...

Ep 259 - Girl at War, by Sara Nović

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Nović's Girl at War has all the confidence and impact of a firsthand account, despite the fact that it was written almost entirely from secondha...

Ep 258 - Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

04 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, four conventionally-sized young women approach adulthood in Louisa May Alcott's seminal novel Little Women. It's time to wonder who will ma...

Ep 257 - Dying of the Light, by George R. R. Martin

28 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

You might know George R. R. Martin from an obscure little HBO series called “Game of Thrones.” This week, we go back to his very first (and pre-AS...

Ep 256 - Anne of Green Gables (Live from Philly), by L.M. Montgomery

21 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’re enjoying a summertime break this week, so we hope YOU enjoy our Philly Podcast Festival show about Anne of Green Gables from last month!See Pr...

Ep 255 - 10:04, by Ben Lerner (Bonus Episode)

17 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 is about a man named Ben trying to write a novel. Yes, it's meta. Yes, it can get navel-gazey. But there's an underlying huma...

Ep 254 - Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

14 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ranking on multiple Saddest Books Ever lists, Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia is a classic young adult novel. A young boy makes a new friend...

Ep 253 - The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith

07 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Talented Mr. Ripley is a book about apprehension and grifting and murder, which makes it feel like a great selection for this, the Year Of Our Lor...

Ep 252 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Live in Boston), by Robert C. O'Brien

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Hold on to your hors--I mean, rats, it's a live show! We present to you this dispatch from Boston on Robert C. O'Brien's novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rat...

Ep 251 - Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

24 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Esquivel's best-selling novel Like Water For Chocolate is a work of revolutionary magical realism. No really, it takes place during the Mexican ...

Ep 250 - Alias Hook, by Lisa Jensen

17 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Live shows and a busy summer mean there’s nothing special about our 250th episode, except insofar as each and every one of our episodes is a special...

Ep 249 - The Nerd, by Larry Shue

10 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Larry Shue's 1981 play The Nerd is about a gumption-less architect trying to extract a painful person from his life. Did we mention it's a comedy? We ...

Ep 248 - Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger

03 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Kluger’s Last Days of Summer isn’t a complicated novel—it’s a nice, emotionally resonant book about a kid without a father and a man wit...

Ep 247 - The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

26 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What's hidden in your secret garden? Which weeds need weeding? Which flowers need water, sunlight, and a Pokemon trainer to bring them to life? This w...

Ep 246 - Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey

19 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve read fantasy adventure books and we’ve read sexy books, but have we read any books that are sexy fantasy adventures? After reading Jacquelin...

Ep 245 - Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit

12 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

If you could wish for anything, what would it be? Dinosaurs to eat? Money to spend? A Nintendo to live in? The kids in E. Nesbit's story Five Children...

Ep 244 - Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know the meaning of life? We don't either, but we feel like we're just a little bit closer after reading Hermann Hesse's classic Siddhartha. S...

Ep 243 - March, by Geraldine Brooks

29 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew's out of the country so Craig's wife Laura joins the show to talk about Geraldine Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March. March imagines th...

Ep 242 - Felidae, by Akif Pirinçci (Bonus Episode)

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This month, we read the first book in Akif Pirinçci’s “Felidae” series. It’s a “bestselling novel of cats and murder,” and it combines ov...

Ep 241 - You Are A Shark (Choose Your Own Adventure) by Edward Packard

22 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

YOU. ARE. A. SHARK. Or so the title of this Choose Your Own Adventure book by Edward Packward would have you believe! Will we be a leader of animals o...

Ep 240 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz

15 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao earned Junot Díaz a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and it remains one of the most highly regarded novels of our young 2...

Ep 239 - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg

08 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're at the tail end of Children's Book Week, so we thought it appropriate to discuss E.L. Konigsburg's Newberry Award-winning book From the Mixed-up...

Ep 238 - Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer

01 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

NOTE: A short stretch of fairly explicit sex talk earns this one the "Explicit" tag, though as usual we avoid cussing. You've been warned! This week, ...

Ep 237 - Skateboard Tough, by Matt Christopher (Special Bonus Episode)

30 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our rad, bad, extra-jumbo bonus episode on Matt Christopher's Skateboard Tough! It's a jumbo episode because we spend at least 10 minutes r...

Ep 236 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

24 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go explores the inner lives of teens as they learn, love, and discover their full potential as... something you need to ...

Ep 235 - Silas Marner, by George Eliot

17 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Craig returns this week for a talk about George Eliot (pen name for Mary Anne Evans) and her novel Silas Marner, which starts out as a bummer but grad...

Ep 234 - The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Craig’s on his long-delayed honeymoon this week, so Andrew’s wife and other best friend Suzannah is filling in this week to tell you all about Ale...

Ep 233 - Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell (Bonus Episode)

06 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is most notable for its uniquely structured narrative, so it's only appropriate we made this the first book we cover whil...

Ep 232 - The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we dive into Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, a quasi-autobiographical novel about womanhood, depression, and identity. We also discuss th...

Ep 231 - The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys join Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club and read (fictional) stories about the Chinese-American children of Chinese immigrants; they also at...

Ep 230 - Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Live in Philly)

20 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Well shiver me timbers, it's a live show! They say that dead men tell no tales, but Robert Louis Stevenson sure told a great tale in Treasure Island. ...

Ep 229 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

13 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we return to the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (“Gabo” to his friends) for the first time since our second-ever episode. This time ar...

Ep 228 - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

06 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to travel to the magical land of Narnia! It's Craig's first time journeying through C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and i...

Ep 227 - The World According to Garp, by John Irving

27 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we bring you The World According to Garp according to Andrew - we breeze through John Irving’s best-known “middlebrow” novel, touching...

Ep 226 - Last Act, by Christopher Pike (w/ guest Margaret H. Willison)

20 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're joined by social media maven (and friend of the show) Margaret H. Willison to talk about Christopher Pike's Last Act, an early entry f...

Ep 225 - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lorde

13 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we tackle Audre Lorde's autobiographical Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. It's an account of Lorde's childhood and early adulthood, focusin...

Ep 224 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (Bonus Episode)

10 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Haddon's book about a teenager with "Behavioral Problems" is notable less for what happens in it and more for its perspective. It's an affecting ...

Ep 223 - Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

06 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"I am an invisible man," says the unnamed narrator at the beginning of Ralph Ellison's masterpiece Invisible Man. He then walks the reader through the...

Ep 222 - Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (w/ The Librarian Is In)

30 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who has the conch? Somebody find the glasses! We're trapped on a podcast island with the amazing Gwen Glazer and Frank Collerius of the New York Publi...

Ep 221 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

23 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What will you remember? What will you be remembered for? Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven asks these questions of most of its characters as they...

Ep 220 - The US Constitution

16 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We the Hosts of Overdue, in Order to form a more perfect Podcast, establish Humor, insure earbud Tranquility, provide for uncommon offense, promote ou...

Ep 219 - Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play, by Anne Washburn

09 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Andrew brings his oddly deep and specific knowledge of The Simpsons to bear on Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play. In a post-a...

Ep 218 - Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor

02 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to 2017! Our first book of the year is Angel by Elizabeth Taylor, a somewhat forgotten mid-century classic about an author shaping her world t...

Ep 217 - All-Star Superman, by Grant Morrison (Bonus Episode w/ Lucas Brown)

30 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Up in the sky, look! It's a bird...it's a plane...it's a podcast about Superman! Lucas Brown (host of the podcast "The Math of You") joins us for a di...

Ep 216 - A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki

26 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For our last regular show of 2016, we come to Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and get schooled on the relationship between the writer and rea...

Ep 215 - Stealing Christmas, by Alexa Riley

19 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week we learn all about the "quick, dirty, and over-the-top" erotic fiction of Alexa Riley - and since Stealing Christmas is holiday-themed, we g...

Ep 214 - White Teeth, by Zadie Smith

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Show me Zadie Smith's WHITE TEETH! Join us for a discussion about her debut novel that tackles immigration, assimilation, and our collective struggle ...

Ep 213 - The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton

05 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders was written when the author was just 16, which is impressive not just because the book has an atypical amount of empathy...