All Episodes
Books of Some Substance — 117 episodes
115 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
114 - The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
113 - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2 of 2)
112 - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1 of 2)
111 - Light Years by James Salter
110 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Season 3 Books Announcement
108 - Control, Revisited: Six Novels of Power, Freedom, and Surrender
107 - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
106 - The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
105 - Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
104 - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
103 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2/2)
102 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1/2)
101: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Season 2 Books Announcement
100 - End of an Era
Special Announcement
99 - László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Guest: Derek Maine)
98 - Jon Fosse's Melancholy I-II
97 - Franza Kafka's Diaries (Guest: Ross Benjamin)
96 - Marcel Proust's Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time #6)
95 - Henri Lefebvre's The Missing Pieces (Guest: Tom Comitta)
94 - Anton Chekhov's Difficult People (Guest: Bob Blaisdell)
93 - Marcel Proust's The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
92 - Han Kang's The Vegetarian
91 - Marcel Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time #4)
90 - Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (Guest: Seth of WASTE Mailing List)
89 - Marcel Proust's The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time #3)
88 - Alexander Theroux's Fables (Guest: George Salis)
87 - Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
86 - Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time #2)
85 - Franz Kafka's Short Stories (The Judgment, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony)
84 - Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time #1)
83 - Bohumil Hrabal's Closely Watched Trains
82 - Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths
81 - Renata Adler's Speedboat
80 - W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants
79 - George Saunders' Tenth of December (Guest: Taylor Vick of Boy Scouts)
78 - W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
77 - Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (Guest: Aatif Rashid)
76 - Hermann Hesse's Siddartha
75 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 4
74 - Santiago Gamboa's Necropolis (Guest: Mark Haber)
73 - Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (Guest: Ned Russin of Title Fight and Glitterer)
72 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 3
71 - Hafiz's The Gift (Guest: Valerie June)
70 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 2
69 - Cormac McCarthy's Suttree (Guest: Jesse Cash of ERRA)
68 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 1
67 - Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (Guest: George Salis)
66 - Amy Hempel's Collected Stories (Guest: Alfred Brown IV)
65 - Kōbō Abe's The Box Man
64 - Clarice Lispector's The Chandelier
63 - Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters (Guest: João Reis)
62 - Jean Cocteau's The Holy Terrors (Guest: Alexis Marshall of Daughters)
61 - Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves Examined
60 - M. John Harrison's Viriconium (Guest: Brett Campbell of Pallbearer
59 - J.G. Ballard's High-Rise (Guest: Alex Edkins of METZ)
58 - Hubert Selby Jr.'s The Room (Guest: Michael Berdan of Uniform)
57 - John Steinbeck's East of Eden Examined
56 - Ted Hughes' Crow Examined (Guest: Steve Von Till of Neurosis)
55 - Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich Examined (Guest: Dylan Desmond of Bell Witch)
54 - John Steinbeck's Cannery Row Examined
53 - Milan Kundera's The Joke Examined
52 - William H. Gass' Omensetter's Luck Examined
51 - Erecting Words: William H. Gass' Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
50 - Death by Abstraction: Albert Camus' The Plague
49 - Hell Yeah, Sex Week: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
48 - Space Anarchy!: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
47 - Avuncular Bumbler: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
45 - The Substance of Influence: Ross Farrar of Ceremony on Saul Bellow
44 - The Substance of Influence: Catherine Flynn on James Joyce
43 - Watt the Hell?: Samuel Beckett's Watt
42 - Didi Up Before You Gogo: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
41 - The Substance of Influence with Caleb Michael Sarvis
40 - #nihilism: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (Guest: Kathleen Founds)
39 - A Good Misfit Is Hard to Define: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find
38 - The Substance of Influence with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
37 - The Miserable Pulp of Decay: László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
36 - This Fruit Is Dynamite!: Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Guest: Roanne Kantor)
35 - The Last Super Blood Wolf Moon: László Krasznahorkai's The Last Wolf
34: United in Putrification: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Guest: Summer Star)
33 - The Dance: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Guest: Dean Rader)
32 - The Substance of Reality: César Aira's The Literary Conference
31 - This is the End(ing): Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
30 - Hemingway Short Story Month: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
29 - Hemingway Short Story Month: Hills Like White Elephants
28 - Hemingway Short Story Month: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
27 - Hemingway Short Story Month: The Killers
26 - Everything He Hated Was Here: Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater
25 - Fly Uncomfortably: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
24 - A Disrupting Darkness: Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
23 - No, I Wouldn't Call It That: Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
22 - Mirrors: On the Adaptations of Solaris
21 - The Time of Cruel Miracles: Stanisław Lem's Solaris
20 - Needs More Booster Drive: Stanisław Lem's Fiasco
19 - La Chingada Muerte: Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz
18 - The Aura of Influence: How Carlos Fuentes Wrote Aura
17 - Second Sight: Carlos Fuentes' Aura
16 - It's Cold Out There: James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
15 - The Cup of Trembling: James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues
14 - Once Hate is Gone: James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son
13 - Obscure Revelations: Eileen Chang's Naked Earth
12 - War for Love: Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City
11 - Ultimate Truthiness: Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game
10 - Sent Into Dark Corners: Hermann Hesse's Klingsor's Last Summer
9 - A Warped Tour of Cynicism: Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt
8 - Sorry Sinclair: Sinclair Lewis' Early Business Stories
7 - End Without End: Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain
6 - Between Poetry and Prose: Kawabata's Palm of the Hand Stories
5 - Life and Living with Henderson the Rain King
4 - Death and Dying with Saul Bellow
3 - The Master and Margarita
2 - Heart of a Dog
1 - Their Eyes Were Watching God