The God Setebos

By Xi Draconis Books

In The God Setebos podcast, the editors of Xi Draconis Books (Patrick Barney, Chris Malmberg, and Hans Burger) review and discuss novels, short story collections, poetry, and other forms of literature... more

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The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.

The God Setebos episodes:

October 29, 2021 14: On Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document
In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I discuss Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document, a novel that tells the story of two activists through shifting experiences and time periods. Check it out.
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1h 2min
October 15, 2021 13: On Keith Gessen's A Terrible Country
In this episodes, Hans, Chris, and I discuss Keith Gessen's A Terrible Country, which is a novel that explores corruption in modern day Russia. Check it out.
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1h 4min
September 03, 2021 12: On Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
In this episode, we discuss a novel that explores Nietzschean philosophy in the context of two Japanese schoolkids who are subjected to ruthless bullying.
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1h 5min
August 19, 2021 11: On Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In this episode, we discuss the classic novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Turns out, it's kind of problematic.
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1h 4min
August 05, 2021 10: On William Shakespeare's Othello and Paula Marantz Cohen's Of Human Kindness
In this episode, we discuss William Shakespeare's Othello and refer to Paula Marantz Cohen's Of Human Kindness for critical context.
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59min
July 21, 2021 9: On Pola Oloixarac's Mona
In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I discuss Pola Oloixarac's hilarious Mona, a satire of academia as well as a comment on the spiritual condition of woman.

Note to listeners: I mistakenly refer to Oloixarac as Peruvian in this episode, when she is in fact Argentine.
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1h 4min
July 03, 2021 8: On Brian Catling's The Vorrh
In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I trash a terrible book that has few redeeming qualities.
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1h 3min
June 18, 2021 7: On Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I discuss the classic novel Invisible Man, which examines black identity, the sense of invisibility, and individuality in the fifties in the United States.
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1h 11min
June 07, 2021 6: On Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
In this episode, Hans, Chris, and I discuss a trilogy of novellas that deals with questions of identity and loss of self.
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59min
May 28, 2021 5: On Jess Walters' Cold Millions
In this episode, Hans, Chris, and I discuss Cold Millions, a novel about the Wobblie movement in the early twentieth century in Spokane, Washington.
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1h 4min

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