You asked for it. Oh, why did you ask for it? Jason Snell returns to discuss Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, in a double-sized podcast that will take as long to listen to as the book does to read.

18: Stranger in a Strange Land

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Stick some stamps on the top of our heads. Deborah Stanish discusses Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” (1941)

John McCoy  with Deborah Stanish




  
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160: Why I Live at the P.O.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between. Moisés Chiullán discusses Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth (1961).

[We’ve re-issued this episode to correct an audio problem.]

John McCoy  with Moisés Chiullán




  
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       The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
      
     
     
      Trailer for Chuck Jones’s adaptation.

     
    
   
  

 
 
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159: The Phantom Tollbooth

Podcasters: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let’s Find Out! Jason Snell talks about marine life in J.D. Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” (1948).

John McCoy  with Jason Snell




  
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158: A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Lions and tigers and bea— you know what, just lions. Jordan Morris is here to discuss Ray Bradbury’s story “the Veldt” (1950).

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       "The Veldt" radio drama
      
     
     
      From the 1983 NPR Playhouse series Bradbury 13.

     
    
     
      
       "The Veldt"
      
     
     
      Track by Combustible Edison from the album I, Swinger (1994).

     
    
   
  

 
 
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157: The Veldt

The Podcast! The Podcast! John Holt discusses the ill-fated cruise that is Joseph Conrad’s novelette Heart of Darkness (1899).

John McCoy  with John Holt

 
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18: Stranger in a Strange Land

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