DeLillo's award-winning breakthrough novel is a satirical rumination on the fear of death while living in a hyper-consumerist America inundated with information delivered by modern technology. Did we mention it was written in the 80s?Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.
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Aug 17
Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
This story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment. It's a romance-adjacent found family story set in a cozy coffee shop set against a D&D-flavored backdrop, a place where almost no one is really a villain and the one person who comes close gets the e ... Show More
55 m
Aug 10
Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quickly into the deep end with characters we've met just pages before. However, the titular Olive looms much large ... Show More
1h 10m
Dec 2021
A tech giant does its best Big Brother impersonation in 'The Every'
Author Dave Eggars has written a new book, The Every, satirizing technology and it's ever-expanding hold on us. While publishing and distributing the book, which also happens to be about a tech giant overextending its reach, he tried to keep it out of the hands of one of today's ... Show More
8m 49s
Feb 2023
Bret Easton Ellis on Teenage Nihilism and Nostalgia
Los Angeles, 1981. A group of beautiful, rich, high school students are playing adult in their absentee parents' empty mansions, fueled by lust and prescription drugs, and filled with fear and disaffection. This is the world of The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel in 13 yea ... Show More
37m 15s
Jul 2023
Vessel & Live Birth of Humanity's Legacy
Vessel***Written by: Chester Rogalski and Narrated by: Jimmy Ferrer***Live Birth of Humanity's Legacy***Written by: Allison Sommers and Narrated by: Rissa Montanez***Content Warning: Tokophobia, Acrophobia, animal death, gore, dysfunctional family dynamic, suicide***Check out our ... Show More
54m 11s
