S4 Ep32: Cultural Insensitivity and Beautiful Language in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory
S4 Ep32: Cultural Insensitivity and Beautiful Language in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory
In this episode, we discuss the tiny, ugly ways an otherwise beautifully written novel can age, as well as Patrick's inc... Read more
7 Aug 2023
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1hr 16mins
S4 Ep30: Interpolations and Internal States in Checkout 19
S4 Ep30: Interpolations and Internal States in Checkout 19
The Spiders puzzle admiringly over Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19, which uses interpolated stories and a fractured ... Read more
17 Jul 2023
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1hr 5mins
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S4 Ep31: The Art of Making Meaninglessness Comforting in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
S4 Ep31: The Art of Making Meaninglessness Comforting in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In this episode, we discuss the lasting phenomenon that is the Hitchhikers' media series. Just why is it so popular? It'... Read more
2 Jul 2023
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1hr 1min
S4 Ep29: Moral Ambiguity and Magical Fetishism in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
S4 Ep29: Moral Ambiguity and Magical Fetishism in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
In this episode, the Book Spider hosts tackle The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy. Casterbridge is a complex nove... Read more
15 Jun 2023
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57mins
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S4 Ep28: Female Perspectives and the Weight of Submission in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
S4 Ep28: Female Perspectives and the Weight of Submission in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Does submission to fate bring weight or lightness? Can Milan Kundera find the clit? Special guest Sarah Ashcraft joins u... Read more
23 Apr 2023
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1hr 9mins
S4 Ep27: What the hell is happening in our heads in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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In this episode, we discuss the close attention Woolf gives to her characters and how mercurial and impermanent we are u... Read more
10 Apr 2023
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52mins
S4 Ep26: Empathy and Indeterminacy in Russell Banks' Lost Memory of Skin
S4 Ep26: Empathy and Indeterminacy in Russell Banks' Lost Memory of Skin
In this episode, the Book Spider hosts discuss Lost Memory of Skin, a novel that seeks to empathize with probably the mo... Read more
26 Mar 2023
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1hr 2mins
S4 Ep25: On Quantum Theory and Social Justice in Namwali Serpell's The Furrows
S4 Ep25: On Quantum Theory and Social Justice in Namwali Serpell's The Furrows
The spiders attempt to fit together the refracting, self-contradictory plot and reconcile the competing thematic strands... Read more
4 Mar 2023
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1hr 11mins
S4 Ep24: Humor, Madness, and Existential Dread in Cormac McCarthy's newest duology: The Passenger and Stella Maris
S4 Ep24: Humor, Madness, and Existential Dread in Cormac McCarthy's newest duology: The Passenger and Stella Maris
In this episode we discuss McCarthy's newest two novels, published a couple months apart but obviously intended to be re... Read more
16 Feb 2023
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1hr 13mins
S4 Ep23: Erotic Grotesqueries in The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
S4 Ep23: Erotic Grotesqueries in The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
In this episode, we discuss a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. This collection revels in ... Read more
29 Jan 2023
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59mins
