Reading Pop Classics

We discuss Colson Whitehead's crime novel, Harlem Shuffle.

Kennedy and Rebecca read and discuss one of the best-selling books of all time.

Rebecca and Kennedy go over the Pyrenees with the Nightingale.

We solve the 9/11 ending of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

Loved, despised, and maligned, we discuss Fight Club, the book (and movie) that everyone is convinced everyone else misunderstands.

Also, Kennedy had a cold while we recorded this and you can hear it. Sorry.

Is the history really secret if you tell Richard Papen about it? Rebecca and Kennedy tackle the Donna Tartt's beloved first novel, The Secret History.

We cover Joan Didion's classic, Play It As It Lays.

Rebecca and Kennedy get mopey and nihilistic with a book about grim, emotionless reality of being....rich? Saddle up for Bret Easton Ellis's debut classic, Less Than Zero.

Kennedy and Rebecca discuss Helen Fielding's hilarious and beloved Bridget Jones's Diary. V.G.

Rebecca and Kennedy re-read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 classic, Americanah. From Nigeria to America and England and back to Nigeria, our hosts discuss the journey from home to home.