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Spine Crackers episodes
- Ted Chiang - Exhalation
In this episode, the Spine Crackers discuss Ted Chiang's much-lauded sci-fi short story collection Exhalation, which touches on issues as wide ranging as tech startup culture, free will, and time travel!
1 hr 31 min - John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (feat. W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List)
In this episode, the Spine Crackers are joined by Seth, proprietor of the excellent Instagram and Youtube accounts under the W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List moniker, to discuss John Wyndham's 1951 catastrophe novel of war, science, and human society The Day of the Triffids.
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1 hr 24 min - Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
In this episode, the Spine Crackers discuss Nobel Prize winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's 2009 existential pseudo-murder-mystery Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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1 hr 10 min - Katharina Volckmer - The Appointment
This week, the Spine Crackers discuss Katharina Volckmer's transgressive 2020 novel of sex, identity, and trauma, (still unpublished in her native country of Germany) The Appointment.
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1 hr 13 min - Paul Auster - Leviathan
This week, the Spine Crackers read American author Paul Auster's 1992 novel of friendship, writing, and finding one's place in political history, Leviathan.
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1 hr 13 min - John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
In this episode, the Spine Crackers discuss their first devotional text, John Bunyan's 1678 allegorical adventure and proto-novel The Pilgrim's Progress. See y'all down the road!
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1 hr 22 min - Lorrie Moore - Like Life
In this episode, the Spine Crackers read American author Lorrie Moore's elegiac collection of short stories on isolation, rootlessness, art, and, well...you get the idea, Like Life.
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1 hr 9 min - Anna Kavan - Ice
This week, the Spine Crackers read English author Anna Kavan's final novel, 1967's schizological sci-fi blizzard-dream, Ice.
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1 hr 8 min - Ersnt Junger - The Glass Bees
In this episode, the Spine Crackers read controversial German author Ernst Junger's 1957 science fiction novel of technology, war, celebrity, and fascism (?) The Glass Bees.
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1 hr 9 min - Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler (Featuring Nate Rankin of Books You Haven't Read)
In this episode, the Spine Crackers are joined by Nate Rankin, proprietor of the YouTube channel Books You Haven't Read, to discuss Italo Calvino's 1979 metatextual novel (within novel within novel) If on a winter's night a traveler!
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About Spine Crackers
From the publisher's feed
Spine Crackers is an in-depth literary analysis podcast where we discuss a different book every other week, with some jokes and goofs tossed in for good measure. Follow us on instagram, twitter, facebook, etc. and check out our patreon! We post our next read on twitter so you can keep up and read along with us if you like.