Ranked #1
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
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50mins
Ranked #2
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
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53mins
Ranked #3
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
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #4
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
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51mins
Ranked #5
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
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38mins
Ranked #6
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
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51mins
Ranked #7
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
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26mins
Ranked #8
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
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39mins
Ranked #9
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
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22mins
Ranked #10
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
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48mins
Ranked #11
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
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56mins
Ranked #12
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
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52mins
Ranked #13
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
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #14
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
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50mins
Ranked #15
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
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44mins
Ranked #16
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
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49mins
Ranked #17
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
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49mins
Ranked #18
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #19
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
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54mins
Ranked #20
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
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1hr 14mins