We tried something a little different this week—instead of reading a novel or play, Andrew read Kio Stark’s crowdfunded handbook Don’t Go Back to School. Stark interviews artists, writers,...

Did you know that Stephen King’s The Stand isn’t a taut legal thriller? It’s just one of the many things that Andrew and Craig learned about the book this...

Rock and roll, PowerPoint slides, African dictators: all succumb to the inexorable march of time in Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winningA Visit from the Goon Squad. Join us as we...

The relationship between interior evil and its effect of one’s external appearance isn’t new to the show, but it’s explored pretty explicitly in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian...

What’s there to enjoy about a 2400-year-old tragedy? Is it the ekkyklemas? The god-chariots? Or is it the protagonist so wounded by her husband’s actions that she’s driven to...

Andrew wanted something short and funny for his selection this week, and he got it in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. It’s up for debate whether Wilde...

Ray Bradbury once described his first novel,The Martian Chronicles,as a collection of short stories “pretending to be a novel.” In fact, many of the Martian stories were published individually,...

It’s rare that we read a book and just out-and-out dislike it, but that’s what happened when Andrew read Dave Eggers’ You Shall Know Our Velocity! Eggers’ tale of...

Craig’s never read Jane Austen. Yes, it’s unbelievable. Yes, it’s sort of shameful. But making up for that kind of thing is what this show’s all about! Join us...