The trope of hyper-violent teenagers, the representation of and reception by LGBTQ people, and the over-saturation of young adult dystopias, today on this episode regarding Pierce Brown’s ‘Red Rising’. Featuring Graeme Houssin of ‘Sam and Graeme Take the Basement’. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/18/items/AdaptationalRedRising/Adaptational%20-%20Red%20Rising.mp3

Ancient aliens, existential dread, and geeking out about Guillermo del Toro. All this in my discussion about H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘At the Mountains of Madness’. https://ia801504.us.archive.org/27/items/AdaptationalAtTheMountainsOfMadness/Adaptational%20-%20At%20the%20Mountains%20of%20Madness.mp3  

What makes a comic book starring people with animal heads stand out as a literary masterpiece? How brutal can a depiction of the Holocaust get on the page? What happens when an author is determined not to have his work adapted? All this and more on the latest episode, discussing Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’. https://ia801505.us.archive.org/5/items/AdaptationalMaus/Adaptational%20-%20Maus.mp3  

The first episode of ‘Adaptational’, exploring the teenage angst and troubled history of J. D. Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. https://ia601504.us.archive.org/17/items/AdaptationalTheCatcherInTheRye/Adaptational%20-%20The%20Catcher%20in%20the%20Rye.mp3