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Infinite Gestation

A Literary Podcast For The Novel Individual

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Beatnik vs. Revolutionary – On the Road by Jack Kerouac + Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara | Episode 026

Beatnik vs. Revolutionary – On the Road by Jack Kerouac + Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara | Episode 026

Infinite Gestation breaks form to discuss Jack Kerouac’s On the Road alongside Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries in a sin... Read more

23 Jan 2016

50mins

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler … Three Guys Discuss a Novel – Italo Calvino | Episode 031

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler … Three Guys Discuss a Novel – Italo Calvino | Episode 031

Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler is in a class of its own. This postmodern exploration of the novel con... Read more

17 May 2016

53mins

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Not So Good Country People – 3 Stories by Flannery O’Connor | Episode 046

Not So Good Country People – 3 Stories by Flannery O’Connor | Episode 046

Infinite Gestation welcomes special guest Matt Bird for a discussion on Southern Gothic Literature, and more specificall... Read more

25 Mar 2017

1hr 16mins

Ranked #4

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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan | Episode 033

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan | Episode 033

Infinite Gestation gets A Visit from the Goon Squad on this episode covering Jennifer Egan’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning... Read more

6 Jul 2016

51mins

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The Covert Episode – Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene | Episode 027

The Covert Episode – Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene | Episode 027

Our Man in Havana may have been compromised during the making of this episode. Partially inspired by his time in MI6 and... Read more

9 Feb 2016

38mins

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To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird – Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Episode 003

To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird – Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Episode 003

Complete with Sam’s movie trailer intro, the boys discuss Harper Lee’s newly published (7/14/15) novel Go Set a Watchman... Read more

29 Jul 2015

51mins

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Fitzgerald’s Lost & Found – “Temperature” by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Episode 024

Fitzgerald’s Lost & Found – “Temperature” by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Episode 024

“Temperature” is the recent “lost & found” short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which appears in the summer 2015 issue... Read more

9 Jan 2016

26mins

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Tolstoy at the Movies – The Last Station (2009 Film) | Episode 025

Tolstoy at the Movies – The Last Station (2009 Film) | Episode 025

The Last Station is essentially concerned with the sunset chapter of Leo Tolstoy’s life (with far less drinking than wit... Read more

16 Jan 2016

39mins

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Limited Gestation – Minisode 002 | Is Game of Thrones a Runaway Train?

Limited Gestation – Minisode 002 | Is Game of Thrones a Runaway Train?

In a recent blog post, George R.R. Martin has perhaps confirmed our worst fears: The Winds of Winter will not be publish... Read more

2 Feb 2016

22mins

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Pat on Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck | Episode 030

Pat on Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck | Episode 030

John Steinbeck’s fifth novel, In Dubious Battle, marks a radical shift in the author’s work while serving as an interest... Read more

14 Apr 2016

48mins

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Kubrick vs. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey – Novel to Film Comparison | Episode 028

Kubrick vs. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey – Novel to Film Comparison | Episode 028

Making no apologies for worshipping at the “Altar of Kubrick”, Infinite Gestation compares Arthur C. Clarke’s novel to t... Read more

1 Mar 2016

56mins

Ranked #12

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Toni Morrison’s Beloved Jazz | Episode 049

Toni Morrison’s Beloved Jazz | Episode 049

Pat reads Jazz, Sam reads Beloved, they discuss both! Departing from the usual format, this episode features both novels... Read more

10 Jun 2017

52mins

Ranked #13

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The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited – Novel + Series | Episode 048

The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited – Novel + Series | Episode 048

Pat and Sam are joined by guest Matt Bird in an episode returning to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. With the suc... Read more

30 May 2017

1hr 15mins

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Scoop by Evelyn Waugh | Episode 047

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh | Episode 047

In an era whereby journalism (and facts in general) have become increasingly important, Scoop reminds us that though the... Read more

11 Apr 2017

50mins

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Riffraff! – The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington | Episode 029

Riffraff! – The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington | Episode 029

In celebration of Indiana’s Bicentennial, Infinite Gestation discusses The Magnificent Ambersons, the Pulitzer Prize win... Read more

15 Mar 2016

44mins

Ranked #16

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11.22.63 By Stephen King – Novel + Miniseries | Episode 032

11.22.63 By Stephen King – Novel + Miniseries | Episode 032

Patrick and Grant take on Stephen King’s 11/22/63 as well as the Hulu miniseries of the same name. Best described as lit... Read more

7 Jun 2016

49mins

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Film Adaptations: Is the Book Always Better Than the Movie? | Episode 004

Film Adaptations: Is the Book Always Better Than the Movie? | Episode 004

Can a film transcend the novel it was based upon? During a (by no means definitive) discussion of most-loved and patentl... Read more

13 Aug 2015

49mins

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Who Was Shakespeare, Anyway? | Episode 045

Who Was Shakespeare, Anyway? | Episode 045

The long-awaited Shakespeare episode has finally arrived! In this episode the panel delves into the question and the man... Read more

21 Feb 2017

1hr 5mins

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Dystopian Novel Series Part III – It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis | Episode 044

Dystopian Novel Series Part III – It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis | Episode 044

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis made a sudden and dramatic climb on bestseller lists in late fall 2016. Parts of ... Read more

3 Feb 2017

54mins

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Orwell & Hemingway in Spain – The Spanish Civil War – Homage to Catalonia + For Whom the Bell Tolls | Episode 043

Orwell & Hemingway in Spain – The Spanish Civil War – Homage to Catalonia + For Whom the Bell Tolls | Episode 043

Orwell and Hemingway in Spain – the long awaited episode on the Spanish Civil War is finally here! Herein the panel cove... Read more

16 Jan 2017

1hr 14mins

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