Books of Some Substance

113 Episodes

1. 33 - The Dance: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Guest: Dean Rader)

   Published: 11/12/2018
2. 32 - The Substance of Reality: César Aira's The Literary Conference

   Published: 10/16/2018
3. 31 - This is the End(ing): Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

   Published: 9/19/2018
4. 30 - Hemingway Short Story Month: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

   Published: 8/24/2018
5. 29 - Hemingway Short Story Month: Hills Like White Elephants

   Published: 8/17/2018
6. 28 - Hemingway Short Story Month: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

   Published: 8/8/2018
7. 27 - Hemingway Short Story Month: The Killers

   Published: 8/2/2018
8. 26 - Everything He Hated Was Here: Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater

   Published: 7/25/2018
9. 25 - Fly Uncomfortably: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

   Published: 6/27/2018
10. 24 - A Disrupting Darkness: Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

    Published: 5/30/2018
11. 23 - No, I Wouldn't Call It That: Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

    Published: 4/24/2018
12. 22 - Mirrors: On the Adaptations of Solaris

    Published: 3/22/2018
13. 21 - The Time of Cruel Miracles: Stanisław Lem's Solaris

    Published: 2/20/2018
14. 20 - Needs More Booster Drive: Stanisław Lem's Fiasco

    Published: 1/26/2018
15. 19 - La Chingada Muerte: Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz

    Published: 12/20/2017
16. 18 - The Aura of Influence: How Carlos Fuentes Wrote Aura

    Published: 11/17/2017
17. 17 - Second Sight: Carlos Fuentes' Aura

    Published: 10/30/2017
18. 16 - It's Cold Out There: James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

    Published: 9/15/2017
19. 15 - The Cup of Trembling: James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues

    Published: 8/22/2017
20. 14 - Once Hate is Gone: James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

    Published: 7/28/2017