Book Spider
Xi Draconis BooksBook Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 131 | Founded | 7 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksPhilosophySociety & CultureArts | |||
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In this episode, the Spiders chat about Homage to Catalonia, Orwell's journalistic account of the Spanish Civil War. This memoir may in fact be his best work.
The Spiders briefly discuss Clinical Trials, Violet Lucca's scholarly analysis of David Cronenberg's filmography, focusing primarily on the downsides of theory-oriented analysis, then go into more depth on the relationship between Cronenberg's new fi... more
In which we debate whether Polanski's grounded interpretation is better than Joel Cohen's hallucinatory interpretation, but ultimately circle back to the original play and the undying ritual of embodying, ingesting, and interpreting it.
In this episode, the Spiders discuss Post Office, the first novel of infamous womanizing, drunkard poet Charles Bukowski. While it shows some promise in a few areas, it is, overall, pretty bad.
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- Magical realism or not?
I don’t know how to email y’all, but sending a message as I am listening to your Famished Road (Bookclub read) - the man has repeatedly been on the record as saying that it isn’t magical realism. For me that is a game changer on how to read the book
The same has happened for countless booked. The Sellout is a Great American Novel. The author never wants people to read it as a satire (which was printed in on the cover of int’l copies).
If you try and group a book into genres and subgenres that... more
Apple Podcasts4PHPCoal
United Kingdoma year ago - Helping me understand my reaction to The Famished Road
Like the podcasters I loved many elements of the book but struggled with what felt like, as one of them described it, free associative chaos. The mapping of Okri and, by comparison, Marquez, to Murakami and Miyazaki or Dalí and Khalo, was really helpful.
Overall very thoughtful and illuminating.
Apple Podcasts4Vitamine03
United States2 years ago - Dana Spiotta episode
Pretty bad and superficial misreading of this novel.
Apple Podcasts1Iambic12345United States3 years ago - Interesting Angles
An engaging podcast that’s not afraid to interpret and imagine. A wide range of intellectual expertise analyze and give fresh perspectives on an array of novels, from popular classics to more obscure postmodern yarns. Very recommended.
Apple Podcasts5juntUnited States3 years ago I found their discussion of 'The Vorrh' largely uncharitable, unilluminating and glib.
Podcast Addict24 years agoafterstasis
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