Dec 28, 2021
Our year-end survey. What the hell did we read in 2021???
Books mentioned:
Run, Don’t Walk: The Listening House, Mabel Seeley; Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker; Piranesi, Susanna Clarke; Intimacies, Katie Kitamura; Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck; Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee;
Thumbs Up: The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz;
Dec 18, 2021
RIP Eve Babitz. Here's our episode on her from September 2020.
Books mentioned: Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days Fast Company, Sex & Rage, L.A. Woman, I Used to Be Charming, Eve Babitz; Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A, Lili Anolik; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West;...
Dec 12, 2021
Re-releasing this episode in tribute to our vampire queen! RIP, Anne.
Books mentioned: The Witching Hour and Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice; Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Of interest: Amazon reviews, Guardian Q & A, Anne’s Youtube Channel, Anne’s opinion on editors.
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Nov 9, 2021
In Part 2 of our Rand investigation (our season finale!), we visit Galt’s Gulch and figure out what the deal is with Rand’s magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. What's Ayn Rand’s favorite color??? Go on, guess.
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Nov 2, 2021
In part one of our (first ever!) two-episode investigation, we tackle the surprisingly irrational life of Ayn Rand, the polarizing capitalist whose legal name was Alice O’Connor, and who was born Alissa Zionvievna Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
What. A. Ride.
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