Your co-hosts travel to a neighborhood used bookstore to supermarket sweep three must reads for the other person. This is our chance to get out of the dim, boozy, somehow still smokey (?) confines of the Stardust Lounge and share some books that fall outside of the typical Literary Guise fare. Join us for this experimental romp through bibilichor and organized chaos that is: the neighborhood bookstore!

A sad ending to a sad novel, we talk about the way inaction and not living authentically can misshape the soul. How sometimes the greatest tragedy in a man's life, can be the truths left unspoken; the glory never sought. Yukio Mishima is one of the best authors of all-time, and his resounding effect on the co-hosts of this podcast is a testament to that. 
Oh, also, there's a kamikaze porn star story, so stick around for that.

Over cocktails we go deep into psychoanalyzing our own sexuality (same old, same old with this podcast) all the while exploring in more detail some of the dynamic prose that has made Confessions of a Mask a timeless classic. Oh, and we talk about that time the author randomly tried to overthrow the Japanese government. 

Co-host Zachary Kellian introduces one of his favorite authors to Gordon Macallan who in turn lends even more personal insight into the text... just what book clubs are all about! Join us for a frank exploration of closeted sexuality in post-war Japan and learn a little bit about one of the world's most enigmatic, outrageous, and talented writers to ever put pen to paper.

Was this podcast just a long and needlessly complex excuse to eventually discuss H.P. Lovecraft? Maybe... we're big fans of the grandfather of horror's cosmic approach to terror (even if we cringe at some of his more heinous personal beliefs). Join us for a dramatic reading followed by an in-depth discussion of the story.

We wrap up this season's foray into the world of Stephen King with an in-depth discussion on "the coming of age tale" and the unique rites of passage (or lack thereof) within American culture past, present, and future. Or at least that's what we thought we were talking about... full disclosure, we discovered a very real liquor brand called "Redrum" and it was too perfect for a Stephen King podcast to not down a whole bottle.  *Listener Warning: this episode contains  offensively bad Maine accents*

We continue to drink some corpse revivers as we read one of the master of horror's non-horror novellas, "The Body." In this episode we share some tips about  how to talk your twelve-year-old friends into seeing a dead body and explore the reason why boys (and men) so often play "at war."

We're drinking Corpse Revivers and reading Stephen King all month! What's a literary podcast doing examining the master of horror? If you're asking yourself that, you've not read enough King. The Body is his exploration of 12 -year-old boys, a subject he approaches with enough humanity and empathy to rank among the best of literary fiction. We hope you'll join us, King-aficionados and new-comers alike! (Don't worry, we'll get plenty nerdy when it comes to the King-metaverse, too). So grab your best friends, pack an overnight bag, make up some B.S. excuse to your folks, and let's go on an adventure!

We take a field trip for our second remote recording session, this time to New York City, NY! We sip some drinks just barstools away from where Dylan Thomas drank his last pint and marvel at the building's plumbing mishap that put Jack Kerouac in jail. There's Bob Dylan graffiti in the bathroom and an overall air of bohemian artistic freedom to be had at The White Horse Tavern, one of the most legendary literary locations in all of the United States. Join us for this journey into history and marvel at the patience of the staff who let us record well past 4am. 

Lasers! Poison darts! Miss Gladys Stephens of Omaha, Nebraska! We talk about the climax of The Andromeda Strain as well as get a glimpse behind the scenes of the movie it later inspired.   Thanks for joining us on this journey back to our collective bookworm adolescence!