2017 in Books

About this episode

There's no new book this week due to the winter holidays. But there is a mini-episode where Ben and Gemma share the five best books they read in 2017. Let us know what your favorite books of the year were, too!

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Ulysses, Part 3

Ben, Gemma, and Hillary have a lot of questions about Molly Bloom, and wonder if Leo's famed gift of empathy extends to women at all. Gemma pitches a Bad Gritty Reboot that turns Ulysses into an anthology TV series with each "chapter" written, directed, and produced by an entirel ... Show More

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Jun 2018

Ulysses, Part 2

Ben, Gemma, and Hillary have a lot of questions about ULYSSES. Why does it contain a 200-page play? What is Leo Bloom's greatest gift as a human being and hero, besides being able to turn literally any moment in time into a sexual fantasy? What does "style-for-style's-sake" mean?

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Jun 2018

Ulysses, Part 1

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