113 Episodes

  1. 53 - Milan Kundera's The Joke Examined

    Published: 7/21/2020
  2. 52 - William H. Gass' Omensetter's Luck Examined

    Published: 6/13/2020
  3. 51 - Erecting Words: William H. Gass' Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

    Published: 5/12/2020
  4. 50 - Death by Abstraction: Albert Camus' The Plague

    Published: 4/23/2020
  5. 49 - Hell Yeah, Sex Week: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

    Published: 3/29/2020
  6. 48 - Space Anarchy!: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

    Published: 2/21/2020
  7. 47 - Avuncular Bumbler: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

    Published: 1/27/2020
  8. 46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading

    Published: 12/22/2019
  9. 45 - The Substance of Influence: Ross Farrar of Ceremony on Saul Bellow

    Published: 11/21/2019
  10. 44 - The Substance of Influence: Catherine Flynn on James Joyce

    Published: 10/20/2019
  11. 43 - Watt the Hell?: Samuel Beckett's Watt

    Published: 9/29/2019
  12. 42 - Didi Up Before You Gogo: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

    Published: 8/25/2019
  13. 41 - The Substance of Influence with Caleb Michael Sarvis

    Published: 7/18/2019
  14. 40 - #nihilism: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (Guest: Kathleen Founds)

    Published: 6/24/2019
  15. 39 - A Good Misfit Is Hard to Define: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Published: 5/7/2019
  16. 38 - The Substance of Influence with Chaya Bhuvaneswar

    Published: 4/16/2019
  17. 37 - The Miserable Pulp of Decay: László Krasznahorkai's Satantango

    Published: 3/23/2019
  18. 36 - This Fruit Is Dynamite!: Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Guest: Roanne Kantor)

    Published: 2/16/2019
  19. 35 - The Last Super Blood Wolf Moon: László Krasznahorkai's The Last Wolf

    Published: 1/26/2019
  20. 34: United in Putrification: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Guest: Summer Star)

    Published: 12/3/2018

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The unofficial podcast of literary misfits everywhere who want to engage with books of "substance" (i.e. serious, respected, heavy, philosophical, classic), or at least considered such.