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Do You Even Lit? — 75 episodes

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DYEL existential crisis: What's the point of reading fiction anyway?

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James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues: That Scotch and Milk Goes Down Smooth

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Herzog Part II: Great men take on the potato

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Saul Bellow's Herzog Part I: How dare you make me sleep with your wife

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Middlemarch FINALE: It's OK to be mid

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: Wearing Homer as a skin suit

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The Tragedy of Othello: Cucked by the green-eyed monster

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Middlemarch, part 2: Pity the man with the young hot wife

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Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars

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Raymond Carver: Cathedrals even for those without eyes to see

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Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'

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American Pastoral, part 2: The Indigenous American Berserk

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American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Thank God for Incognito Mode

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Atomised, part 2: Sympathy for the Incel

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Was the sexual revolution a mistake? (Houellebecq's Atomised, part 1)

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Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book?

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Moby Dick finale: Ahab Derangement Syndrome

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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: Look how they massacred my boy

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Moby Dick, part 2: A conceptual analysis of Whiteness

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Moby Dick, part 1: My name is Ishmael and my special interest is whales

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Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF

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DYEL wrapped: Most beloved and hated books of 2025

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Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: It's not rocket science

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Murakami's Norwegian Wood: the sadboi and his manic pixie dream girls

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A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce on the difference between tasteful nudes and porn

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C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef

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Butcher's Crossing: John Williams's rougher cut

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Borges's Library of Babel: Ctrl + F for meaning

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Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists

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Anna Karenina part 2: I am begging you to touch grass

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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: Real Housewives of Russia

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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero

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Everything is Illuminated: Cultural Learnings of Trachimbrod for Make Benefit Glorious Book Club

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Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Luddite?

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The Dispossessed part 2: Why would capitalism make me do this?

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Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been tried

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DeLillo's White Noise: psy-opping ourselves on death and po-mo

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The Odyssey, part 2: Failsons and deadbeat dads

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Emily Wilson's The Odyssey, part 1: Bronze age perversion

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Nikolai Gogol: Cutting your nose to spite the faceless bureaucracy

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Blood Meridian, part 2: It's time for some game theory

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Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, part 1: A legion of horribles

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DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024

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The Moviegoer: In which we escape a deep existential malaise

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Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita

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Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Autofiction and autofellation

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Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doom

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Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy)

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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: War and love

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Crime and Punishment finale: is Dostoevsky...overrated??

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Crime and Punishment, part 2: Three extraordinary men

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Crime and Punishment, part 1: Mister Schizo and the First Trad

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Susanna Clarke's Piranesi: Gaslight gatekeep girlboss

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The Tragedy of Hamlet: The O.G. annoying theatre kid

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Albert Camus' The Fall: Signalling, scrupulosity, and pathological self-awareness

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Philip K. Dick's paranoid classic Ubik: Fluttering at the windowpane of reality

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Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A Bug's Life

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Frankenstein, part 2: Nature vs nurture

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, part 1: Post-nut clarity and forbidden knowledge

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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE Interpretation

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The Razor's Edge, part 3: Climbing off the wheel of suffering

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The Razor's Edge, part 2: Lay your hands on me Larry

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W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, part 1: Nobody loafs like Larry

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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?

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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 2: If you can fake sincerity you've got it made

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David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 1: Weaponised therapy-speak

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Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old man

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Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issue

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Borges' Garden of Forking Paths: a ramble through the multiverse

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John Williams' sleeper hit Stoner: Finding perfection in mediocrity

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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 3: The world is weary of me and I am weary of it

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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontents

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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality

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