P.U.L.C.H.

Your wayward hosts return from their hiatus to discuss Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, the worst book we've ever read about cultural criticism. Curbstomp anyone who tells you to read it. Irredeemable midwit tripe.

P.U.L.C.H. is going on hiatus until February 2021 so Nic can focus on his grad school applications. He's sure going to miss chatting with all you wild and crazy P.U.L.C.H.heads out there in radio land, but he knows the break will be over before ya know it.

In our first guest episode, the great Leo Delmar joins us from Florida to discuss The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which he's read thirty-two times. Other topics include a young Nic's competition-losing Maoist essays and Cerebus the Aardvark.

My dearest audience,

Never would I venture to suggest that your esteemed virtue is lacking in its expansive scope, and so I must naturally assume you are unaware of the great injury you do me by refusing to listen to my podcast. It therefore presses upon me to make it unambiguous to you how deeply I suffer and how fiercely my soul is inflamed that you will not download P.U.L.C.H. episode 14 in which Joyce and Nic discuss Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

I beg of you: employ your saintly charity and yield succor to a soul in anguish!

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14 October, 20--

We read A Handful of Dust. The audio quality is bad again because Windows is terrible. Joyce read some Kafka. Nic sings a bit of Memory from Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit musical Cats.

America calling, America calling. Your fearless hosts delve into Michel Houellebecq's latest provocation, 2019's Serotonin. What will they think? What will they say? Only by pressing the play button on your podcast listening device can you be sure. Other topics include banned novels, weird software bugs, and Nic's disgust for a middle-aged anime lover.

The PULCH team touch bases to network and brainstorm a content strategy raising awareness around Witold Gombrowicz's 1965 novel Cosmos. Nic gets a new microphone, and a young British boy's wristwatch torments him for years. 

Gustave Flaubert spent his whole life writing The Temptation of St. Anthony, published finally in 1874. The P.U.L.C.H. hosts discuss it and many other topics to delight and surprise you in this week's episode. Don't wait--listen now!

Joyce discusses a novel about an isolated, perfume-obsessed aesthete with an isolated, perfume-obsessed aesthete. Neither of them pronounce the French correctly.

Our friend in England converses with the short fellow about John le Carré's satirical spy thriller The Looking Glass War. Other topics include the boozy life of Malcom Lowry, the regrettable legitimization of TV as an artistic medium, and a yearning for legal, readily available heroin.