All Episodes

Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country

PAUL READ THE WRONG BOOK?!?

Bruce Chatwin - On the Black Hill

John Barth - Sabbatical: A Romance

Lauren Groff - Matrix

Percival Everett - Telephone

The (Belated) Spine Crackers 2024 Year-In-Review Awards Spectacular

Robert M. Coates - The Eater of Darkness

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Italo Calvino - The Baron in the Trees

William Golding - The Paper Men

Gerald Murnane - The Plains

Djuna Barnes - Nightwood

Bernard Malamud - The Natural (feat. Nate of Books You Haven't Read)

Nicholson Baker - Vox

The Third Annual Spine Crackers Year-in-Review Awards Spectacular (2023 Edition)

Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger

Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano

Kenzaburō Ōe - The Silent Cry

David Duchovny - Truly Like Lightning (feat. Patrick Willems)

Stefan Zweig - Chess Story

William Gaddis - Agapē Agape (feat. Book Shore)

Tarjei Vesaas - The Birds

Emil Ferris - My Favorite Thing is Monsters

William Faulkner - Big Woods: The Hunting Stories

George Sand - Indiana

William T. Vollmann - The Atlas

The Second Annual Spine Crackers End of Year Roundup Spectacular (2022)!

Nicholas Mosley - Impossible Object

James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room FEAT @Juliemichellereads

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons

Interview with the new owners of Owl Pen Books

Percival Everett - The Trees

Roberto Bolano - The Third Reich feat. Ben of Book Shore

Maxine Hong Kingston - Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Colin O'Sullivan - The Dark Manual

Yu Miri - Tokyo Ueno Station

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Gerald Murnane - Barley Patch (feat. Sean of Travel Through Stories)

Ted Chiang - Exhalation

John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (feat. W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List)

Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Katharina Volckmer - The Appointment

Paul Auster - Leviathan

John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress

Lorrie Moore - Like Life

Anna Kavan - Ice

Ersnt Junger - The Glass Bees

Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler (Featuring Nate Rankin of Books You Haven't Read)

Christopher Isherwood - A Single Man

ANNOUNCING: Spine Crackers 2.0!

Charles Simic - The Lunatic & The World Doesn't End

The First Annual Spine Crackers End-of-Year Awards Spectacular

Herman Melville - The Confidence-Man

One-Year Anniversary Q&A Blowout (The Mics)

Truman Capote - A Tree of Night and Other Stories

Percival Everett - Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Joseph McElroy - Cannonball (feat. Ben of Book Shore)

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

John Steinbeck - The Pearl

Paddy Chayefsky - Altered States

Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis

David Diop - At Night All Blood Is Black

Thomas Bernhard - Correction

Georges Simenon - The Cat

Graham Greene - A Burnt-Out Case

Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

Miscellaneous Book Talk

T.F. Powys - Unclay

Philip K. Dick - Ubik

Jean Toomer - Cane

Haruki Murakami - Killing Commendatore

Vladimir Nabokov - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Leonardo Sciascia - The Day of the Owl

Henry Miller - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

Raven Leilani - Luster

Dubravka Ugresic - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

Ah Cheng - The King of Trees

Michel Houellebecq - Submission

Hervé Guibert - To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

Evan Dara - Flee (feat. Morgan)

Hiroko Oyamada - The Factory (feat. Scott Thomas)

Nathaniel Mackey - Bass Cathedral

Helen DeWitt - The Last Samurai (feat. Viva La Dude)

Guido Morselli - Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing

Anna Kavan - Sleep Has His House

John Crowley - Great Work of Time

Georges Simenon - Dirty Snow

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven

Jakov Lind - Soul of Wood

Charles Dickens - The Chimes & The Haunted Man

Natsume Sōseki - The Miner

Bohumil Hrabal - I Served the King of England

Roberto Bolaño - Nazi Literature in the Americas

Paul Auster - Moon Palace

Michael Cisco - The Divinity Student

Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan & The White People

Andrew Vachss - Shella