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Book Spider episodes
- S4 Ep89: The Mundanity of True Human Horror: Section 1 of Roberto Bolaño's Opus, "2666"In which we discuss The Part About the Critics, section 1 of Roberto Bolaño's posthumous masterpiece, "2666."1 hr 4 min
- S4 Ep88: A Journal of the Plague Year: An Interesting Historical ArtifactIn 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.58 min
- S4 Ep87: The hollowness of surface satisfactions in Latronico's perfectly adequate PerfectionIn which the Spiders take on Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, a perfectly satisfactory novel which perhaps doesn't give them the sense of mystery and intrigue that some readers have experienced.54 min
- S4 Ep86: The Catharsis of Chaotic, Perpetual Suffering in Phil Tippet's "Mad God"In which we discuss the brutal, hilarious, and deeply moving stop motion film, "Mad God," in development for 30 years and finally released in 2024.52 min
- S4 Ep85: What Even Is Genre Anyway?: Discussing U. K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of DarknessIn this episode, the Book Spider hosts ask what genre and literary fiction are, and they wonder about the quality of a sci-fi book like The Left Hand of Darkness.1 hr 16 min
- S4 Ep84: Bleak House, Coming up for Air, and the demise of the English literary traditionIn which the Spiders discuss Charles Dickens's unwieldy, uneven Bleak House, how it may or may not be emblematic of the larger decline of literate culture, and whether we're sure we'd miss it.1 hr 2 min
- S4 Ep83: kew. rhone. and the uses of obscure artIn which Hans gets a little upset about Chris and Patrick's responses to the album kew. rhone. by John Greaves, Peter Blegvad and Lisa Hermans.1 hr 23 min
- S4 Ep82: Pynchon's "Inherent Vice" and Paul Thomas Anderson's film adaptation: A most delightful multimodal pairIn which the boys discuss Pynchon's delightful drug-haze California novel, Inherent Vice, and Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation to film. Both are good hangs. And honestly, perhaps uniquely, are better for being read and watched together than on their own.1 hr 8 min
- S4 Ep81: Two Say Nay, One Says Yea to Ian McEwan's AtonementIn this episode, the Spiders discuss the devastating Atonement, by Ian McEwan.1 hr 7 min
- S4 Ep80: The perils of satire in the newsletters of Sam Kriss and Naomi KanakiaIn which the Spiders discuss two email newsletters hybridizing fiction and nonfiction, Sam Kriss's "The law that can be named is not the true law" and Naomi Kanakia's "Lonely Island Adventures," two pieces whose uncertain mingling of fact and invention may either bolster or undermine their points and their readability.51 min
About Book Spider
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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor.
Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.