All Episodes

S3 Ep14: On Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document

S3 Ep13: On Keith Gessen's A Terrible Country

S3 Ep12: On Mieko Kawakami's Heaven

S3 Ep11: On Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

S3 Ep10: On William Shakespeare's Othello and Paula Marantz Cohen's Of Human Kindness

S3 Ep9: On Pola Oloixarac's Mona

S3 Ep8: On Brian Catling's The Vorrh

S3 Ep7: On Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

S3 Ep6: On Paul Auster's New York Trilogy

S3 Ep5: On Jess Walters' Cold Millions

S3 Ep4: On Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

S3 Ep3: On Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

S3 Ep2: On Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu

S3 Ep1: On Flannery O'Connor's Wiseblood

S2 Ep17: On John Steinbeck's East of Eden

S2 Ep16: On Gustav Meyrink's The Golem

S2 Ep15: On Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others

S2 Ep14: On Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day

S2 Ep13: On Jia Qing Wilson-Yang's Small Beauty

S2 Ep12: An Interview with Adi Callai, Author of The Sodomites

S2 Ep11: On Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory

S2 Ep10: On Homer's The Odyssey

S2 Ep9: On Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

S2 Ep8: On Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge and Its Sequel, Myron

S2 Ep7: On John Milton's Paradise Lost

S2 Ep6: On Daryl Farmer's Where We Land

S2 Ep5: On Haruki Murakami's 1Q84

S2 Ep4: On John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman

S2 Ep3: On Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

S2 Ep2: On Dante's Disneyland Inferno, by Sun City Girls

S2 Ep1: On Albert Camus' The Fall

S1 Ep10: On My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Suffering Channel

S1 Ep9: On Marilynne Robinson's Gilead

S1 Ep8: On Patrick Barney's Misfit the Wanderer

S1 Ep7: On Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

S1 Ep6: On Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings

S1 Ep5: On Toril Moi's Revolution of the Ordinary

S1 Ep4: On Robert Browning's Caliban Upon Setebos

S1 Ep3: On Robert Coover's Gerald's Party

S1 Ep2: On Fran Ross's Oreo

S1 Ep1: An Interview with Jennifer Lagier, Author of Trumped Up Election

S1 Ep16: On Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

S1 Ep15: On John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor

S1 Ep14: On Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan

S1 Ep13: On Steve Erickson's Zeroville

S1 Ep12: On Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

S1 Ep11: On Janet Frame's The Carpathians

S1 Ep10: On Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing

S1 Ep8: On Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity

S1 Ep7: On W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

S1 Ep4: On Moby Dick