In which we discuss the mixed success of JG Ballard's super experimental, multi-modal and even multi-generational work, "The Atrocity Exhibition."

In this episode, the Book Spider hosts discuss The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. Hans thinks it's sanctimonious, but Patrick and Chris don't really care, because it's awesome all the same.

In which the Spiders are really quite unimpressed by Caro Claire Burke's enormously successful debut novel Yesteryear.

In which we discuss Kafka's prophetic qualities and the importance of finding a good translation. The translation we recommend in this instance is that by David Wyllie (hint: search for the Dover thrift edition). 

In this episode, the Spiders discuss the essays of Montaigne, with mixed feelings.

In which the Spiders ponder Couples, by the now-underappreciated John Updike, a breathtakingly wrought and shockingly lovely work that evinces a now-alien disinterest in judging its characters.

In which we close our discussion of one of Bolanyo's masterpiece. 

In which we discuss the lesser discussed parts of this giant, shaggy novel, and stop just before the door to Hell.

In which we discuss The Part About the Critics, section 1 of Roberto Bolaño's posthumous masterpiece, "2666."

In this episode, the Spiders discuss A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. While interesting as an historical artifact, the novel leaves at least one of the Spiders bored.