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S4 Ep77: Orwell's Acerbic Ambivalence: A Discussion of Homage to Catalonia	Book Spider	81:57
77: Are Naked Lunch and The Shrouds the secret twins of the Cronenberg filmography? (Plus Violet Lucca's Clinical Trials)	Book Spider	82:09
S4 Ep76: On Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and the Polanski and Cohen Film Treatments	Book Spider	70:27
S4 Ep75: Post Office, Charles Bukowski's Terrible Debut Novel	Book Spider	60:22
S4 Ep74: Unworld and the problem of literary science-fiction	Book Spider	58:35
S4 Ep73: Comedic Tones and Tragic Times in Otessa Moshfegh's "Lapvona"	Book Spider	61:31
S4 Ep72: Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf: A Perfect Novel	Book Spider	54:43
S4 Ep71: In Ascension and the perils of a needless re-reading	Book Spider	57:15
S4 Ep70: Beautiful Emptiness in Samantha Harvey's "Orbital"	Book Spider	44:47
S4 Ep69: Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom	Book Spider	57:31
S4 Ep68: How Bruce Wagner's brave and lazy The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories suffered and benefited from the culture wars	Book Spider	56:08
S4 Ep67: The Fun but Empty Calories of Danielewski's House of Leaves	Book Spider	50:51
S4 Ep66: Are Aesthetic Properties Real? (With a Discussion of the Film LFO)	Book Spider	72:46
S4 Ep65: What is the illusion in The Book of Illusions?	Book Spider	66:49
S4 Ep64: RIP David Lynch - On "Eraserhead," "Lost Highway," "Inland Empire," and "Catching the Big Fish"	Book Spider	68:24
S4 Ep63: A Storm Painted on a Low Ceiling in Glen Slater's "Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age"	Book Spider	67:24
S4 Ep62: Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night: Thematic Complexity, Aesthetic Simplicity	Book Spider	76:59
S4 Ep61: Dean Koontz, Robin Cook, and Others: What is Bad Writing?	Book Spider	77:07
S4 Ep60: AI, Writing, and Literature (with a bit of film thrown in)	Book Spider	73:20
S4 Ep59: Uneven Greatness in Melville's Billy Budd and Piazza Tales	Book Spider	60:55
S4 Ep58: Apocalyptic Conspiracies: Theodore Roszak's Flicker	Book Spider	64:34
S4 Ep57: Omensetter's Luck and the Demise of Hard Fiction	Book Spider	77:55
S4 Ep56: Somewhat disappointed by, but still finding enchantment in, Mikhail Bulgakov's almost-100-year-old novel: The Master and Margarita	Book Spider	52:26
S4 Ep55: Sayaka Murata's Earthlings Is One-Dimensional	Book Spider	53:51
S4 Ep54: Pacing and Tragedy in Mary Shelley's The Last Man	Book Spider	61:46
S4 Ep53: Gelatinous Eggs and Dead Anti-Worlds: The Mystery of Stanisław Lem's His Master's Voice	Book Spider	63:05
S4 Ep52: Despicability and Empathy in Patrick Barney's Gusano	Book Spider	73:51
S4 Ep51: Accepting the mushiness of Jeff Vandermeer's Acceptance	Book Spider	54:27
S4 Ep50: Transparent Satire and Opaque Plotting in Jeff Vandermeer's Authority	Book Spider	48:20
S4 Ep50: Inverted Emotional Polarities in the two Annihilations	Book Spider	50:33
S4 Ep49: Part 3 of DeLillo's Underworld	Book Spider	70:48
S4 Ep48: DeLillo's Underworld, part 2 and Patrick Barney's new novel, Gusano	Book Spider	76:37
S4 Ep47: Enjoying the Longest DeLillo - Underworld - Part 1	Book Spider	57:10
S4 Ep46: The Opacity of Violence: Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun	Book Spider	55:40
S4 Ep45: The boundary between golden myth and secret history in Don DeLillo's Pafko at the Wall	Book Spider	50:11
S4 Ep43: Mysteries of connection and communication in Katie Kitamura's Intimacies	Book Spider	60:35
S4 Ep44: The Joy and Frustration in Not Going Too Deep Into the Details of Nabokov's Pale Fire	Book Spider	47:40
S4 Ep42: Sandra Newman's Julia, and George Orwell's 1984	Book Spider	66:46
S4 Ep41: Power, abuse, and doubled families in Otessa Moshfegh's Eileen	Book Spider	57:02
S4 Ep39: The Garden of Seven Twilights and the Postmodern Mega-Novel	Book Spider	64:10

S4 Ep77: Orwell's Acerbic Ambivalence: A Discussion of Homage to Catalonia

81:57

77: Are Naked Lunch and The Shrouds the secret twins of the Cronenberg filmography? (Plus Violet Lucca's Clinical Trials)

Book Spider

82:09

S4 Ep76: On Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and the Polanski and Cohen Film Treatments

Book Spider

70:27

S4 Ep75: Post Office, Charles Bukowski's Terrible Debut Novel

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60:22

S4 Ep74: Unworld and the problem of literary science-fiction