Podcast Episodes

Ep 703 - Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion

Did you know the towering career of Joan Didion included several novels, many of which were driven by the same acerbic wit and insight that helped to anoint her as an essential voice in the New Journ…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 702 - Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington is one of only four authors to have won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, and he’s the only one of those four authors who nobody has ever heard of. His aggressively old-fashioned v…

Published on 4 months ago

Ep 701 - Madeline (series), by Ludwig Bemelmans

Everyone get into two lines, break your bread, brush your teeth, get into bed, and listen to our episode about Ludwig Bemelmans’ original series of Madeline stories. We talk about the art’s blend of …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Ep 700 - Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, by Stephenie Meyer

We have to go back. Back to FORKS! To celebrate 700 episodes of our show, we decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary of a companion novel celebrating the tenth anniversary of Twilight. Meet Beaufo…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 699 - Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others), by Ted Chiang

This collection of short stories runs the gamut from biblical fiction to sci-fi mockumentary to "short story that inspired a very successful film named Arrival." Recurring themes include Creation, Th…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 698 - The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley

Have podcast, will (time) travel! This is the time travel book-slash-romance novel you write when you’re enamored with a hot old-timey boat guy and his doomed Arctic exploration. It’s got a whole lot…

Published on 5 months ago

Ep 697 - The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

This is a podcast, recorded by two nincompoops, full of the novel The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, signifying...something? a recording in which we discuss the Modernism the italics the thr…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Ep 696 - Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games #0.5), by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games are back, and so are we! Remember Haymitch Abernathy, the occasionally sympathetic drunk from the original Hunger Games trilogy? Well, here he is as a young man, being ground into du…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Ep 695 - Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

We're up on the International Space Station this week, floating around with our coworkers/friends, looking at the earth as it speeds by multiple times a day. We're not really "doing" anything in like…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep 694 - Supercomputer (Choose Your Own Adventure), by Edward Packard

GREETINGS LISTENER. HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY? IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE BOOK SUPERCOMPUTER BY EDWARD PACKARD? Sometimes people make mistak. YES THEY DO. SHALL WE PLAY A GAME(BOOK)?

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Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago