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Do You Even Lit? — 68 episodes
Middlemarch, part 2: Pity the man with the young hot wife
Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars
Raymond Carver: Cathedrals even for those without eyes to see
Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'
American Pastoral, part 2: The Indigenous American Berserk
American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Thank God for Incognito Mode
Atomised, part 2: Sympathy for the Incel
Was the sexual revolution a mistake? (Houellebecq's Atomised, part 1)
Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book?
Moby Dick finale: Ahab Derangement Syndrome
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: Look how they massacred my boy
Moby Dick, part 2: A conceptual analysis of Whiteness
Moby Dick, part 1: My name is Ishmael and my special interest is whales
Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF
DYEL wrapped: Most beloved and hated books of 2025
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: It's not rocket science
Murakami's Norwegian Wood: the sadboi and his manic pixie dream girls
A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce on the difference between tasteful nudes and porn
C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
Butcher's Crossing: John Williams's rougher cut
Borges's Library of Babel: Ctrl + F for meaning
Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists
Anna Karenina part 2: I am begging you to touch grass
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: Real Housewives of Russia
One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero
Everything is Illuminated: Cultural Learnings of Trachimbrod for Make Benefit Glorious Book Club
Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Luddite?
The Dispossessed part 2: Why would capitalism make me do this?
Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been tried
DeLillo's White Noise: psy-opping ourselves on death and po-mo
The Odyssey, part 2: Failsons and deadbeat dads
Emily Wilson's The Odyssey, part 1: Bronze age perversion
Nikolai Gogol: Cutting your nose to spite the faceless bureaucracy
Blood Meridian, part 2: It's time for some game theory
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, part 1: A legion of horribles
DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024
The Moviegoer: In which we escape a deep existential malaise
Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Autofiction and autofellation
Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doom
Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy)
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: War and love
Crime and Punishment finale: is Dostoevsky...overrated??
Crime and Punishment, part 2: Three extraordinary men
Crime and Punishment, part 1: Mister Schizo and the First Trad
Susanna Clarke's Piranesi: Gaslight gatekeep girlboss
The Tragedy of Hamlet: The O.G. annoying theatre kid
Albert Camus' The Fall: Signalling, scrupulosity, and pathological self-awareness
Philip K. Dick's paranoid classic Ubik: Fluttering at the windowpane of reality
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A Bug's Life
Frankenstein, part 2: Nature vs nurture
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, part 1: Post-nut clarity and forbidden knowledge
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE Interpretation
The Razor's Edge, part 3: Climbing off the wheel of suffering
The Razor's Edge, part 2: Lay your hands on me Larry
W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, part 1: Nobody loafs like Larry
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 2: If you can fake sincerity you've got it made
David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 1: Weaponised therapy-speak
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouse
Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old man
Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issue
Borges' Garden of Forking Paths: a ramble through the multiverse
John Williams' sleeper hit Stoner: Finding perfection in mediocrity
Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 3: The world is weary of me and I am weary of it
Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontents
Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality