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Ep 651 - The House of Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca
3 juni 2024 · 1 uur
Often grouped with the other plays in García Lorca's unfinished "rural trilogy," The House of Bernarda Alba is a claustrophobic drama about control, conformity, and one mother's intimidating cane. Which daughter will get Pepe? Will that horse stop kicking the wall? Will grandma ever be free?? These questions and more on this week's episode. Lees meer
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Ep 650 - The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4)
27 mei 2024 · 1 uur 37 min
Percy Jackson and friends are back for the penultimate entry in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. This installment in Rick Riordan's mythological mash-up benefits from additional emotional complexity and deepened character relationships. Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 5 & 6 (Books 10-14)
25 mei 2024 · 1 uur 34 min
For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 10-14. Lees meer
Episode 5: It's time for a three-fer! This little triptych of books explores the combat of the Iliad from a few different perspectives:
Stealth (Book 10): Diomedes and Odysseus engaging in feats of derring-do. Non-lethal Damage (Book 11): Greeks and Trojans alike suffer setbacks but most of the Dramatis Personae survive. Siege (Book 12): Did you know the Greeks ALSO have a wall? And that the Trojans are besieging THEM?!
Episode 6: We're past the halfway point, and the fighting continues, with the Trojans managing to make it behind the Greek walls to cause some trouble (not that we're ever really allowed to believe they might win). Poseidon aids the Greeks. Hera suits up and bones Zeus to sleep so that some other gods can get in on the action.
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Ep 649 - Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
20 mei 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
This week we travel back to Bois Sauvage to revisit the work of acclaimed author Jesmyn Ward. Sing, Unburied, Sing introduces us to a family on hard times, preparing to welcome back a member from prison while also grappling with the ghosts that demand their attention. For more discussion of Jesmyn Ward, head to Ep 283 - Salvage the Bones. Lees meer
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Ep 648 - Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill and Rosa Lee Beeland (Bonus Episode)
18 mei 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
We're learning how to THINK AND GROW RICH with our good frenemy Napoleon Hill! Lees meer
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Ep 647 - I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
13 mei 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Isaac Asimov's short story collection-turned-novel has very little to do with the mid-2000s Will Smith movie adaptation, which is a good thing. It's a lot less about robots rising up and killing their creators, and more about the law of unintended consequences. Lees meer
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Ep 646 - A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond
6 mei 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
"We just found this bear at the train station and he seems cool? Like he's good at shopping and staring at people. Let's bring him home! Don't mind all the mess he makes." That's probably what the Browns said to themselves upon first spying a charming little bear at Paddington Station. Celebrate Children's Book Week with us by diving into the first appearance of this marmalade-loving lil scamp. Lees meer
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Ep 645 - Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
29 april 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
Did you know that before Gillian Flynn brought us the book Gone Girl, the movie Gone Girl, and the concept of "Gone Girl-ing" someone, she wrote a murder mystery about a different kind of unhealthy family dynamic! Lees meer
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Ep 644 - Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
22 april 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
This graphic memoir (ahem) This collection of comics chronicles the life of an Iranian girl named Marji, whose experiences are heavily based on those of author Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi lived through the Islamic Revolution in Iran and its authoritarian aftermath, and her story is one of resistance, education, and the difficulty of finding yourself amidst societal upheaval. Note: our discussion is based on reading the Complete Persepolis, which combines Volume 1: The Story of a Childhood with Volume 2: The Story of a Return. Lees meer
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Ep 643 - Holes, by Louis Sachar
15 april 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
Holes! We all need 'em, we all love 'em. This is a book where a boy is sentenced to dig a bunch of holes out in the desert because he was accused and convicted of a crime he didn't commit. That's bad! But he also discovers a little something about himself and his family, and makes a new friend. That's good! Lees meer
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Ep 642 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo
8 april 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Lo's award-winning novel seeks to shine a light on marginalized experiences from mid-century San Francisco. What's most impressive is how she's synthesized all of her research into a couple of fresh, compelling characters - allowing the story to honor the historical record without feeling overly bound by it. Lees meer
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Ep 641 - CliffsNotes, by Clifton Hillegass
1 april 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Every week, one of our hosts reads a book and tells the other person (and you, the audience) about it. This week's book is about the topic of war and also the topic of peace. It has characters and themes. Find out more about all of this and more on this week's Overdue! Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 3 & 4 (Books 5-9)
30 maart 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 5-9. Lees meer
Episode 3: These three books include: gods intervening directly on the battlefield, a new Greek hero emerging, the Trojan hero getting a boost from Ares, Hector's wife and son, and a duel with no resolution. It's action packed but also somewhat restful? (Books 5-7)
Episode 4: A lot of folks in these two books remembering that Achilles exists. Zeus presides over more fighting, and it's going poorly for the Greeks. So poorly that Agamemnon tries to make good with Achilles but man that guy knows how to be mad, huh?? (Books 8-9)
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Ep 640 - Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
25 maart 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
The first rule of podcasting is DON'T TALK ABOUT PODCASTING. The second rule of podcasting is please tell everyone about podcasting and specifically about this episode in which we cover Chuck P's notorious novel about masculinity, terrorism, and getting punched in the face. Lees meer
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Ep 639 - There There, by Tommy Orange
18 maart 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
There There sets itself apart by being a book by and about indigenous Americans in an explicitly contemporary, urban setting. It's also got a neat perspective-shifting structure and interconnected characters. Lees meer
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Ep 638 - The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew #4), by Carolyn Keene (Bonus Episode)
16 maart 2024 · 1 uur 15 min
This bonus episode was recorded on LEAP DAY! So we leapt into The Mystery at Lilac Inn with our good friend young sleuth Nancy Drew! Let's play some Hot or Not, I guess?? Also we're talking Odies 2023! Lees meer
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Ep 637 - The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White
11 maart 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
The third and final of White's whimsical children's books about animals, The Trumpet of the Swan asks important questions like: How do swans learn English? How can we better provide accommodations for those who need them? And how much money could a swan earn at a jazz club in the 1960s? Lees meer
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Ep 636 - The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
4 maart 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Modern readers often experience C.S. Lewis as "the Narnia guy," but he's also one of the 20th century's foremost Christian apologetics. The Screwtape Letters, written from the point of view of a demon whose object is to send souls to Hell, is a deeply Christian work but its appeal comes just as much from Lewis' insight into what makes humanity tick. Lees meer
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Ep 635 - Jazz, by Toni Morrison
26 februari 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Toni Morrison’s second novel in her beloved Beloved trilogy, Jazz introduces the reader to a trio of characters united by an incident of tragic romance. Will the freewheeling optimism of the Jazz Age set them on the path of redemption or will they be bound to their painful pasts? Lees meer
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Ep 634 - The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3), by Rick Riordan
19 februari 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
Percy Jackson returns for another road trip across a mythological United States. Plenty of new characters are introduced -- and some of them survive! Lees meer
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Ep 633 - Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5), by Martha Wells
12 februari 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Our month of sequels continues with the first full-length novel in Martha Wells' Murderbot series. The book's extra length leaves it room to dig into themes that the novellas had only nodded at, and also has a whole bunch of extra murderbots in it. Lees meer
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Ep 632 - Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2), by Tamsyn Muir
5 februari 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
To kick off a month of sequel coverage, we get bone deep in the Locked Tomb follow up Harrow the Ninth. This obtuse but compelling sci-fi/fantasy tome plays with perspective, doubles down on the space wizards, and challenges the reader NOT to notice oddly specific meme references. Lees meer
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Ep 631 - The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
29 januari 2024 · 56 min
An early-90s Bengali novel that was translated into English relatively recently, The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die has a lot going for it, but as with many books the thing we'll remember the most is the murderous horny ghost aunt. Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 1 & 2 (Books 1-4)
26 januari 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 1-4. Lees meer
Episode 1: The Iliad drops us right into the middle of the action, where "the middle" is 9 years into a 10 year conflict and "the action" is a couple of easily-affronted guys who instantly get mad at each other. Then we're treated to some maneuvering among the gods, some Odyssean trickery, the Catalog of Ships, and the less-impressive Catalog of Boys. (Books 1-2)
Episode 2: Just as the Trojans and Greeks seem on the brink of a giant clash, pretty boy Paris is shamed out of the crowd and cajoled into dueling Paris' former husband Menelaus. Surprise, surprise - the gods intervene! And after a brief interval, the gods spur the two sides into bloody action. (More like Aga-neg'em-on, amirite.) (Books 3-4)
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Ep 630 - Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson
22 januari 2024 · 56 min
Move along, everyone. Nothing to see here. No women navigating adult friendships and their identities as parents. No jabs at men in power who work overtime to cover up their shame. And definitely no kids that catch on fire. Move along! Lees meer
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Ep 629 - The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen (Bonus Episode)
19 januari 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Time to celebrate winter with a chilly fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Also we're talking Disney's FROZEN! Lees meer
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Ep 628 - The Witch Elm, by Tana French
15 januari 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
The Witch Elm has Dublin, and it has murder, and it has a squad of detectives, but despite all that it is not a book in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. This riff on her classic crime novel formula focuses instead on some of the suspects, namely Toby Hennessey, who doesn’t know if he can’t remember things because of head trauma or because for most of his life he’s been able to get by without acknowledging the existence of systemic problems. Lees meer
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Ep 627 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
8 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Banned in many countries until the 1960s, David Herbert Lawrence's 1928 novel is both racier and tamer than you might imagine. What more would you expect from a book that uses both "the love experience" and [BLEEP] to describe, well, adult behavior? Caveat lictor: this episode features discussions of Adult Situations. Lees meer
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Ep 626 - The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
1 januari 2024 · 56 min
Happy 2024, and happy Public Domain day! Time finally caught up to US copyright law a few years ago, and the result has been a steady trickle of new creative work that’s available for anyone to modify and adapt. This year’s Big One is the earliest version of Mickey Mouse, but the new batch of PD stuff also includes this week’s Pooh book, as well as Tigger himself. Lees meer
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Ep 625 - Her Night With Santa, by Adriana Herrera
25 december 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
You can't spell Horny without Ho(-Ho-Ho)! In this year's Happy Hornydays celebration, one of the people finding love during the holiday season is Santa herself. That's right, this is an F/F steamy short featuring a gender-swapped Kristina Kringle and the niece (???) of Melchior (????) the Magi (?????). Sadly, the extremely promising lore goes somewhat underexplored. Lees meer
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Ep 624 - Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
18 december 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
This generation-spanning epic explores the experience of a Korean family living in Japan throughout (most of) the 20th century. We talk about Lee's use of time, her penchant for "minor" characters, and the recent adaptation of Pachinko for Apple TV+. Lees meer
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Ep 623 - Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
11 december 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Despite being fairly well-versed in 20th-century fantasy, Mervyn Peake and his Gormenghast series has flown completely under our radar until now. It's a strange, florid, disjointed book with some fascinating character portraits, and also the most detailed description of a dude taking a bite of a pear that we have ever read. Lees meer
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Sand by Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 9 & 10
9 december 2023 · 2 uur 52 min
Our previous show-within-a-show concludes! In this longread project, we worked our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters got these episodes monthly, but every two months we combined them for general consumption. If you haven't heard, our current longread project is Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's ILIAD. That's right - STOP! HOMER TIME is back! But first, our final Sandman episodes. Lees meer
In Episode 9: THE KINDLY ONES, things come to a head on this month's episode of our Sandman-focused show-within-a-show. A few people have it out for Dream, who is handling things with characteristic detachment. Matthew wants to know what happens to ravens when they're done. Someone gave the pumpkin guy a machine gun. It's a very long episode for a very long collection.
In Episode 10: THE WAKE, the Endless gather for a funeral wake. Dream rebuilds his domain. We ponder Gaiman's reasons for ordering the epilogues as he did. Plus, we share some closing thoughts on our time with The Sandman.
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Ep 622 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
4 december 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
In this episode, two gamers sit down to talk about one of the buzziest books of 2022. Zevin's blockbuster novel spans 30 years of advancement in technology and in the friendship of Sadie and Sam, two gifted game designers working out how they fit into each other's lives. Lees meer
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Ep 621 - All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1), by Martha Wells
27 november 2023 · 57 min
When you make an AI too smart, you also give it anxiety and depression and an appetite for serialized television. These are the things that motivate Murderbot, the protagonist of the many Murderbot Diaries stories that Martha Wells has released in the short time between 2017 and now. Lees meer
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Ep 620 - The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2), by Rick Riordan
20 november 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Percy Jackson and his pals are back in another mythology-packed middle-grade adventure story, this time (mostly) patterned after the voyages of our old pal Odysseus. Lees meer
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Ep 619 - The Stranger, by Albert Camus
13 november 2023 · 55 min
Mssr. Merseault only likes a few things, unfortunately he must live his life doing plenty of other things for people he doesn't particularly care about. Such is the story of this seminal work of 20th-century fiction and absurdist philosophy. Join us as we grapple with an indifferent universe (and a compelling translation by Matthew Ward). Lees meer
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Ep 618 - A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny (Bonus Episode)
10 november 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
What if a dog was your POV character? What if that dog's owner was JACK THE RIPPER? What if there was a game but you didn't know who was playing? All of these questions and more get asked in our Spooktober bonus episode. Lees meer
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Ep 617 - Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros (w/ Heaving Bosoms!)
6 november 2023 · 2 uur 41 min
We joined Melody and Sabrina for episode 300 of Heaving Bosoms, where we all chatted about the made-to-order, big-on-TikTok, new-adult romantasy that is Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing. (It may be about the fourth wing, but it's the first of a planned five books). Lees meer
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Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episode 0
3 november 2023 · 35 min
For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be revisiting Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. Lees meer
This episode is a free teaser for our Stop! Homer Time project. Patreon supporters can get new Stop! Homer Time episodes monthly (Episode 1 is up right now!), but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.
On this episode, you'll hear us discuss the background of the Iliad and Wilson's great-as-usual Translator's Note.
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Ep 616 - The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
30 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
Based on the hit film--just kidding. Blatty's novel was swiftly turned into a landmark film adaptation just a few years after its release. And it's easy to see why: hauntings, sad priests, the patriarchy's fears about the social mobility of women. People couldn't get enough of that stuff. So let's dive in and hope we don't get possessed! Lees meer
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Ep 615 - Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice
23 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
How would the "breakdown" phase of an apocalypse novel function if the characters involved had already survived through multiple apocalypses? That's the perspective that this week's book brings, in addition to the subtle spooks that come from anticipating the end of the world. Lees meer
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Ep 614 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
16 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
What if H.G. Well's classic tale of humanimals created by a mad scientist were recontextualized in southeast Mexico? Would you find yourself saying that the Yucatan is less an island and more of a peninsula? Sure, you might say that - but why waste time on pedantry when you can engage with Moreno-Garcia's themes of colonialism, paternalism, and class conflict! Lees meer
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Ep 613 - The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H.G. Wells
9 oktober 2023 · 53 min
If you've ever done surgery on a dog to make it more like a guy, only to set it loose in the wilderness and gradually watch it shift back into being a dog, maybe you'll have some sympathy for Doctor Moreau. Otherwise it's pretty hard to get fully onboard with his whole badly-make-animals-into-people gambit. Lees meer
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Ep 612 - Cackle, by Rachel Harrison (w/ Natasha from UNspoiled!)
2 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 52 min
Welcome to Spooktober 2023! Lees meer
We've all been through a bad break-up, right? We've all moved away to start fresh, we've all started a new job, we've all befriended witchy spider-ladies and felt a strange new power growing within us. Right? Tale as old as time.
We're joined this week by Natasha from the UNspoiled! podcast family, hear more of her work at unspoiledpodcast.com.
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Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - Books 7 & 8
30 september 2023 · 2 uur 34 min
Welcome to our current show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption. Lees meer
In Episode 7: BRIEF LIVES, Gaiman digs deep into the concept of lifetimes while following Delirium and Dream on a quest to find their missing brother.
In Episode 8: WORLD'S END, a reality storm leaves people from multiple worlds stranded at a cozy free house. They swap tales to pass the timey-wimey time until an Existence Shattering Event passes by and they can all leave. This collection is most notable for the distinct art styles within each issue, including whatever the hell Boss Smiley is. #vote4prez
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Ep 611 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
25 september 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
This novel was the genesis of the Blade Runner film franchise, which means like many books it gets eclipsed a bit by its adaptation. But does the movie have a gadget you can use to make yourself feel specific emotions, including the emotion that makes you want to use the gadget more? I didn't think so. Lees meer
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Ep 610 - Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (Bonus Episode)
23 september 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
It's time to talk about market efficiencies in popular non-fiction aka the work of Michael Lewis. Specifically, we're chatting about his 2003 book MONEYBALL, which chronicles the work of Billy Beane to optimize the Oakland A's despite his owners not wanting to spend real money. Lees meer
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Ep 609 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson (w/ Strong Sense of Place)
18 september 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
This "Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream" is a landmark of Gonzo journalism, a sensational writing style of which Thompson is the OG. Thankfully, we did not have to journey to Las Vegas on our own. We're joined this week by Mel and Dave from Strong Sense of Place, a website and podcast dedicated to literary travel and books we love. Lees meer
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Ep 608 - I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
11 september 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
What if you got playing cards in the mail? Playing cards that told you to help random people in your community? Would you do it? Could you do it? What does "helping" mean? And who is even sending these cards?? We answer MOST of these questions as we discuss Markus Zusak's The Messenger (aka I Am the Messenger). Lees meer
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