Books of Some Substance
A podcast by David Southard and Nathan Sharp
113 Episodes
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53 - Milan Kundera's The Joke Examined
Published: 7/21/2020 -
52 - William H. Gass' Omensetter's Luck Examined
Published: 6/13/2020 -
51 - Erecting Words: William H. Gass' Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Published: 5/12/2020 -
50 - Death by Abstraction: Albert Camus' The Plague
Published: 4/23/2020 -
49 - Hell Yeah, Sex Week: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Published: 3/29/2020 -
48 - Space Anarchy!: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Published: 2/21/2020 -
47 - Avuncular Bumbler: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
Published: 1/27/2020 -
46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Published: 12/22/2019 -
45 - The Substance of Influence: Ross Farrar of Ceremony on Saul Bellow
Published: 11/21/2019 -
44 - The Substance of Influence: Catherine Flynn on James Joyce
Published: 10/20/2019 -
43 - Watt the Hell?: Samuel Beckett's Watt
Published: 9/29/2019 -
42 - Didi Up Before You Gogo: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Published: 8/25/2019 -
41 - The Substance of Influence with Caleb Michael Sarvis
Published: 7/18/2019 -
40 - #nihilism: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (Guest: Kathleen Founds)
Published: 6/24/2019 -
39 - A Good Misfit Is Hard to Define: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Published: 5/7/2019 -
38 - The Substance of Influence with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Published: 4/16/2019 -
37 - The Miserable Pulp of Decay: László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
Published: 3/23/2019 -
36 - This Fruit Is Dynamite!: Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Guest: Roanne Kantor)
Published: 2/16/2019 -
35 - The Last Super Blood Wolf Moon: László Krasznahorkai's The Last Wolf
Published: 1/26/2019 -
34: United in Putrification: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Guest: Summer Star)
Published: 12/3/2018
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.