Reading in the Time of Monsters
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Reading in the Time of Monsters 014 - The Heinlein Guy, with Quentin Mahoney
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back! I took a little break. My friend Quentin — poet, musician, bartender, general man of letters and experience — comes on to talk about...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 013 - Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Milton Hindus with Drew Flanagan
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this RITTOM we discuss the great and vile Louis-Ferdinand Celine! We here at RITTOM reject the cop-outs criticism deploys to avoid uncomfortable de...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 012 - Antifascism and Criticism
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EDIT- I sent out a minorly glitchy version of this. But this one should be good. On this episode, I talk about what antifascism might add to critical ...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 011 - Revolutionary Russia from the Shop Floor with Kevin Murphy
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of RITTOM, we talk with Russian historian Kevin Murphy about his Deutscher Prize-winning book, “Revolution and Counterrevolution: Cl...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 010 - “Unmask Alice” and Literary Forgery, with John Dolan aka The War Nerd
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a big one! One my literary heroes, John Dolan aka Gary Brecher aka The War Nerd comes onto RITTOM to discuss Rick Emerson’s “Unmask Alice:...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 009 - Achewood, Utopia of Depressed Dudes with John Perich
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of RITTOM, we talk about Chris Onstad’s great webcomic Achewood, an absurdist slice of life comic and “love letter to the English ...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 008 - Harris, Palo Alto
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello all! RITTOM has returned. I had the 11th most popular literature podcast among Irish listeners, and dammit, I will not let the people of Ireland...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 007 - Slobodian, “Crack-Up Capitalism”
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello all! In this episode of Reading in the Time of Monsters, we are joined by Quinn Slobodian, professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley Colleg...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 006 - Surkov, "Almost Zero" or, Russian Elites Write Dumb Books Too
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This one is was a Chieftain request! If you subscribe to Melendy Avenue Review at the Chieftain level, you, too, can request a book for me to review (...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 005 - Kuang, "Babel", and the New Chosen One narrative
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have our first guest! My friend Kit joins me to talk about R.F. Kuang’s 2022 novel, and likely big scifi/fantasy award nominee, “Babel.” Kuan...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 004: Toole, "A Confederacy of Dunces"
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I thought I would break things up a little and talk about a book I like. More than — or maybe just along with — being a really funny novel that ev...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 003 - Lockwood, "No One Is Talking About This" and the Problems of Contemporary Literature
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This went from a reasonably straightforward review of a book I did not like — Patricia Lockwood’s 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This — to a...
Reading in the Time of Monsters 002 - Richardson, "Strange Journey"
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode, I introduce a feature we’ll see going forward: self-crit! I’m going to own the stuff I get wrong, according to my own ligh...
Reading in the Age of Monsters 001: Introductions, and Mark Fisher
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode of Reading in the Age of Monsters podcast, a book criticism podcast. Let’s do some criticism that doesn’t suck. Mark Fis...