All Episodes

Episode 64 - "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers" by Xiaolu Guo

Episode 63 - "Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein

Episode 62 - "Dunfords Travels Everywheres" by William Melvin Kelley

Episode 61 - "Wormwood" by Poppy Z. Brite

Episode 60 - "My Heart is a Chainsaw" by Stephen Graham Jones

Episode 59 - "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas (feat. Claire)

Episode 58 - "Trouble on Triton" by Samuel R. Delany

Episode 57 - "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Episode 56 - "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion

Bonus - Best of 2025

Episode 55 - "Shadow Ticket" by Thomas Pynchon

Episode 54 - "Bleeding Edge" by Thomas Pynchon

Episode 53 - "V." by Thomas Pynchon

Episode 52 - "Major Arcana" by John Pistelli, Pt. 2

Episode 52 - "Major Arcana" by John Pistelli (Pt. 1)

Episode 51 - "The Return of the King" by JRR Tolkien (feat. Nate), Pt. 2

Episode 51 - "The Return of the King" by JRR Tolkien, Part 1 (feat. Nate Schmidt)

Episode 50 - "The Two Towers" by JRR Tolkien, Part 2 (feat. Claire)

Episode 50 - "The Two Towers" by JRR Tolkien, Part 1 (feat. Claire)

Episode 49 - "The Fellowship of the Ring" by JRR Tolkien (Part 2)

Episode 49 - "The Fellowship of the Ring" by JRR Tolkien (Part 1)

Episode 48 - "Libra" by Don DeLillo

Episode 47 - "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov (feat. Molly Tanzer & Melissa)

Episode 46 - "2666" by Roberto Bolaño, Part 5

Episode 45 - "Birthgrave" by Tanith Lee

Episode 44 - "2666" by Roberto Bolano, Part 4

Episode 43 - "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out" (生死疲勞) by Mo Yan (feat. Dan)

Episode 42 - "2666" Part III

Episode 41 - "Lovetown" by Michał Witkowski

Episode 40 - "2666" by Roberto Bolaño (Parts 1 & 2)

Episode 39 - "Nova" Samuel R. Delany

Episode 38 - "Moonglow" by Michael Chabon

Episode 37 - "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" by Herman Melville (feat. Chris Thomas)

Episode 36 - "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon

Episode 35 - "The Rise of the Novel" by Ian Watt

Episode 34 - "Gentlemen of the Road" by Michael Chabon

Episode 33 - "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt

Episode 32 - "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon

Bonus - Top 5 of 2024

Episode 31 - "Context Collapse" by Ryan Ruby

Episode 30 - "The Final Solution" by Michael Chabon

Episode 29 - "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", pt. 2 (feat. Collective Action Comics)

Episode 29 - "The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon, pt. 1 (feat. Collective Action Comics)

Bonus - "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolaño (feat. Ana)

Episode 28 - "Distant Star" by Roberto Bolaño

Bonus - "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft (feat. Molly Tanzer)

Episode 27 - "Cyclonopedia" by Reza Negarestani (feat. Sam Chirtal)

Episode 26 - "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon

Bonus - A Conversation with Dariel Quiogue

Episode 25 - A Selection of Borges

Episode 24 - "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by Michael Chabon

Bonus - "Right Ho, Jeeves" feat. Phil Ford of "Weird Studies"

Episode 23 - "Telluria" by Vladimir Sorokin

Episode 22 - "Blindsight" by Peter Watts (feat. Sam Chirtal)

Episode 21 - Jirel of Joiry (feat. Molly Tanzer)

Episode 20 - "The Ice Palace" by Tarjei Vesaas (feat. Kate Marshall)

Episode 19 - "City of Glass" (feat. Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook)

Episode 18 - "At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann O'Brien

Episode 17 - "Fer-de-Lance" by Rex Stout

Episode 16 - "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward

Episode 15 - "The Parisian" by Isabella Hammad

Episode 14 - "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams

Episode 13 - "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

Episode 12 - "Tun-Huang" by Yasushi Inoue

Bonus Episode - "The Castle" by Franz Kafka (feat. Dan)

Episode 11 - "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes (feat. Ana)

Episode 10 - "By Night in Chile" by Roberto Bolano (feat. Geoffrey Morrison)

Episode 9 - "Bellefleur" by Joyce Carol Oates

Episode 8 - "The Fraud" by Zadie Smith

Bonus Episode - Best of 2023

Episode 7 - "The Dragon Waiting" by John M. Ford (feat. Eden from Death//Sentence)

Episode 6 - "Notes of a Crocodile" by Qiu Miaojin

Episode 5 - "Masters of Atlantis" By Charlie Portis

Episode 4 - Slipstream & "Feeling Very Strange"

Episode 3 - "Ring" by Koji Suzuki (feat. Hot for Creature)

Bonus - "Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft

Episode 2: The Castle of Otranto

Episode 1 - "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco