Episode 74 drops in
Cold open · Ep. 74
A weekly conversation about novels,
held at a bar where everyone has opinions.
Morrison doesn't give you the horror all at once. She ratios it. That's the cruelest part.
— Ep. 61, Beloved
Infinite Jest is a 1,000-page argument that entertainment is the only thing we actually believe in.
— Ep. 48, David Foster Wallace
The last sentence of Middlemarch should be illegal to read in public.
— Ep. 33, George Eliot
Cormac McCarthy hates your comfort zone. He's doing you a favour.
— Ep. 55, The Road
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The Violence of the Ordinary
Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson
Robinson builds a world so quiet you start to hear the absence. We talk about the lake, the sisters, and the sentence that ends everything.
A Man Who Hated Adjectives
The Sun Also Rises — Hemingway
Hemingway's iceberg theory is either genius or cowardice. We argue both sides and neither of us wins.
Infinite Scroll, Finite Patience
White Noise — Don DeLillo
DeLillo wrote White Noise in 1985. It's more accurate now than it was then. That should terrify you.
The Sentence That Breaks You
Beloved — Toni Morrison
We dedicated a full hour to the last three pages. If you know, you know. If you don't — go read it first.
Sentences That Move Like Water
To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
Stream of consciousness is either the most honest form of fiction or the most exhausting. We land somewhere in the middle.
Every Country is a Horror Story
Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
The Judge is the most terrifying character in American literature. We try to explain why without giving you nightmares.
Episode One.
Decide for yourself.
We opened with Giovanni's Room. Baldwin on desire, shame, and the rooms we build inside ourselves. It's still the best hour we've made.
The Room We Build Inside
Giovanni's Room — James Baldwin
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