This week, we return to the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (“Gabo” to his friends) for the first time since our second-ever episode. This time around we get to...

It’s time to travel to the magical land of Narnia! It’s Craig’s first time journeying through C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it’s EVERYONE’s first...

This week we bring you The World According to Garp according to Andrew – we breeze through John Irving’s best-known “middlebrow” novel, touching on its feminist leanings, its surprising...

This week we’re joined by social media maven (and friend of the show) Margaret H. Willison to talk about Christopher Pike’s Last Act, an early entry from the author’s...

This week, we tackle Audre Lorde’s autobiographical Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. It’s an account of Lorde’s childhood and early adulthood, focusing specifically on her experiences as...

Mark Haddon’s book about a teenager with “Behavioral Problems” is notable less for what happens in it and more for its perspective. It’s an affecting study of human thought...

“I am an invisible man,” says the unnamed narrator at the beginning of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece Invisible Man. He then walks the reader through the painful journey that led...

Who has the conch? Somebody find the glasses! We’re trapped on a podcast island with the amazing Gwen Glazer and Frank Collerius of the New York Public Library’s show...

What will you remember? What will you be remembered for? Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven asks these questions of most of its characters as they struggle to survive...