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In which the Spider tries to unravel the tangled web of Miquel de Palol&#39;s The Garden of Seven Twilights, the Catalan language&#39;s addition to the canon of postmodern meganovelistic bricks like Infinite Jest and Gravity&#39;s Rainbow.
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In this episode we discuss Lexi Freiman&#39;s new book, The Book of Ayn. We talk about objectivism, the relationship between humor and ideology, the difficulties of interrogating meaning through the perspectives of unreliable narrators, and the perpetual rightness of Patrick Barney.
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In this episode, the spiders are joined by a special guest, the author of several notable short story collections, David Nikki Crouse. We ask David craft questions about their most recent story collection, I&#39;m Here: Alaska Stories. David gives insightful answers on a variety of topics, including class, identity, and the myth of Alaska.
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In this episode, the boys discuss the future of literacy - in large part to avoid discussing Vinge&#39;s disappointing novel. We touch upon what the emergence of generative AI might mean for writing and reading, and we talk about the craft of writing about the future.
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The Spiders are unsure how to approach Richard Powers&#39;s Galatea 2.2, a novel which they find eerily predictive of the methods used to build contemporary AI programs like ChatGPT. Does the contemporary relevance of its scientific principles cause us to overrate its thematic depth, or to look in the wrong places for meaning? And can Chris and Hans forgive Powers&#39;s unique brand of ornate prose?
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A discussion of Mary Beth Willard&#39;s &quot;Why it&#39;s OK to enjoy the work of immoral artists,&quot; a philosophical text which advances the titular thesis, with a specific focus on Hans and Patrick&#39;s relationship to the classic early work of industrial-metal singer and alleged abusive partner Marilyn Manson.
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In this episode, the Book Spider hosts discuss three important questions in literature: Can literature contain or reveal truth? What is the relationship between literature and morality? And how seriously should we take an author&#39;s intentions when discussing her work? The hosts employ a range of background texts to address these questions, including Aristotle&#39;s Poetics.
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The Spiders puzzle admiringly over Claire-Louise Bennett&#39;s Checkout 19, which uses interpolated stories and a fractured narrative to explore the barriers facing artistically inclined women in a sexist society. Special focus is given to the story of Tarquin Superbus, which so charmed us that we&#39;ve perhaps had a difficult time exploring other aspects of the novel.
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In this episode, we discuss the lasting phenomenon that is the Hitchhikers&#39; media series. Just why is it so popular? It&#39;s not extraordinarily profound. It&#39;s certainly not upbeat, either. But: it caught the world at the right time and: it was written to be very easily digestible by a lot of different folks.
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In this episode, the Book Spider hosts tackle The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy. Casterbridge is a complex novel about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard. After dramatically selling his wife and baby daughter to a stranger for five pounds, Henchard vows to abstain from alcohol for twenty years. Eighteen years after this event, the novel picks up with Henchard at the height of his po...
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Does submission to fate bring weight or lightness? Can Milan Kundera find the clit? Special guest Sarah Ashcraft joins us to discuss The Unbearable Lightness of being, a novel whose deceptive readability hides its thematic obscurity.
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S4 Ep27: What the hell is happening in our heads in Virginia Woolf&#39;s To the Lighthouse
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In this episode, we discuss the close attention Woolf gives to her characters and how mercurial and impermanent we are under her atomic analysis. We also discuss why, it seems, To the Lighthouse is a 1 of 1, rarely emulated (at least successfully) despite the fact that Woolf is in the canon. In fact, brilliant as she is - or maybe because of her brilliance - we suggest young writers shouldn&#39;t t...
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S4 Ep26: Empathy and Indeterminacy in Russell Banks&#39; Lost Memory of Skin
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In this episode, the Book Spider hosts discuss Lost Memory of Skin, a novel that seeks to empathize with probably the most reviled subgroup in the entire world: pedophiles. The novel follows the exploits of a young sex criminal known only as the kid, whose life of hardship culminates in an attempt to meet a teenage girl for sex. In the aftermath, the kid finds himself homeless, living under a c...
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S4 Ep25: On Quantum Theory and Social Justice in Namwali Serpell&#39;s The Furrows
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The spiders attempt to fit together the refracting, self-contradictory plot and reconcile the competing thematic strands of Namwali Serpell&#39;s enigmatic The Furrows, which might or might not be a compelling meditation on grief and loss.
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S4 Ep24: Humor, Madness, and Existential Dread in Cormac McCarthy&#39;s newest duology: The Passenger and Stella Maris
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In this episode we discuss McCarthy&#39;s newest two novels, published a couple months apart but obviously intended to be read together. And we talk about why, though they are excellent, these are such awful books for young writers to read and try to emulate. Don&#39;t even try it, kids. Leave this particular magic to McCarthy. 
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S4 Ep23: Erotic Grotesqueries in The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
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In this episode, we discuss a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. This collection revels in despair and decay, in erotic death. Come along with us into the depths of pain and sexual horror.
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S4 Ep22: Uncanny Perspectives on Art and Love in Robert Aickman&#39;s Painted Devils
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The spider tackles Painted Devils, a collection of strange stories (perhaps not horror but darkly surreal in a horror-adjacent way) by the author Robert Aickman. Dense and enigmatic, these stories use the uncanny to explore various themes, particularly the life of the artist. Recorded just in time for Halloween but then posted in the middle of January.
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In which we discuss, among other things:

The proper level of shame one should feel for liking the television show Friends.
Whether we would antagonize the rich hosts of a dinner party thrown by tech bros - should we somehow find ourselves invited.
The big and messy and fascinating ideas - and bargain basement humor - of Drew Hayden Taylor&#39;s play about authenticity, and whether it is possible t...
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S4 Ep20: Being Mixed and Being American: Jean Toomer&#39;s Cane 
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In this episode, the hosts of Book Spider discuss Jean Toomer&#39;s Cane, a collection of poems and stories that evoke rural Georgia of the early 1900s. The critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls attention to Cane&#39;s use of black, white, and especially mixed-race characters to represent the American experience, an astounding literary innovation never used before or since.
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S4 Ep19: On Irresolution and Indeterminacy in Dana Spiotta&#39;s Wayward
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The podcast&#39;s second go-round with author Dana Spiotta sees us dig into her most recent novel Wayward, which makes a bold effort to argue for nuance and subtlety in the sociopolitical chaos following the 2016 election (for everyone except finance bros, who remain one-dimensional shitheads).
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S4 Ep18: Heinrich Böll&#39;s Billiards at Half Past Nine
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This week, we discuss Böll&#39;s compelling but messy multigenerational, German POV reflection on the World Wars, evil, and their impact on the lives of common people.
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S4 Ep17: Psychological Dread in Daphne du Maurier&#39;s Rebecca
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This episode, the Book Spider gang discusses an early suspense / psychological thriller novel, Rebecca, which deals with the melancholia a nameless narrator experiences when she marries a rich man and moves to his huge estate on a whim, only to find that the memories of her husband&#39;s first wife haunt the very ground upon which she walks.
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This week we&#39;re dissecting a book which mixes fiction and nonfiction in ways which are enigmatic, compelling, and -- to some readers -- morally suspicious. Benjamin Labatut&#39;s When We Cease to Understand the World follows the fictionalized biographies of several scientists and mathematicians as they discover the principles which become quantum mechanics. This odd genre hybrid is admirable, gripp...
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This week, we discuss Ferris&#39;s famous &quot;we&quot; novel about late 2000s office space culture, and get briefly melancholic about what work friends felt like in the pre-pandemic world.
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S4 Ep14: Michael Flynn&#39;s Eifelheim
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This episode, which discusses the modern-day sci-fi classic Eifelheim, features a rarity: all three podcasters agreeing on the quality of the text. Enjoy!
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In this episode the three Spiders do their damnedest to wrap their heads around Lookout Cartridge, which is generally agreed to be the best novel by Joseph McElroy, an enigmatic postmodernist who is often considered an underrated peer of DeLillo, Pynchon, Gass, Gaddis, and the rest of the &#39;60s and &#39;70s greats. 
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S4 Ep12: Italo Calvino&#39;s If on a winter&#39;s night a traveler
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This week, we discuss Calvino&#39;s willful commitment to celebrate the act of reading by refusing to give readers what they want - over and over and over again. 
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The Book Spider crew puzzles over Tanya Tagaq&#39;s Split Tooth, a novelish work whose mixture of bleak slice-of-life vignettes with a more fantastic, spiritual register seems like it might be magical realism (but definitely probably isn&#39;t). Are we ill-equipped to understand this work, or are we bringing the wrong tools for the job? Check out the episode for the answer, if such a thing exists. In t...
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In this episode, we discuss the dreamy, expansive, magical, and somehow also frustrating Martin Dressler, as well as some right and wrong ways to criticize capitalist systems. 
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In this episode, we discuss the intriguing, awesome memoir Road Song by Natalie Kusz. Check it out, if you want to be impressed.
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No One is Talking About This is a hilarious, moving and disorienting novel about communication and the search for authentic experience in contemporary networked and mediated Western life, and how one woman&#39;s encounter with tragedy brings her back to a more human way of being. Or is that an oversimplification? 
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In this episode, Hans and Patrick patiently butcher and then discard the disappointing cuts of Chris&#39;s pick, Waterland - a novel he&#39;s sure he remembers liking, the first time he read it.
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S4 Ep5: George Orwell&#39;s Coming Up For Air
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In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I discuss Orwell&#39;s hilarious Coming Up for Air, the best of his lesser known novels.
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S4 Ep4: J.G. Ballard&#39;s High Rise and the Dystopia of Modernity
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Take a trip up the apartment building of death with J.G. Ballard&#39;s classic tale of social disintegration, High Rise. Scrupulously faithful to the cold details of modern mechanized life while ignoring the very idea of psychological verisimilitude, High Rise is a brilliant scummy head trip, easy to follow but hard to truly understand, and we do our best to tease out its many secrets.
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In this episode, the Book Spider crew discusses Don DeLillo&#39;s Cosmopolis, which is deals with haircuts, getting tazed, self immolation, the dehumanizing aspects of capitalism, and where limousines go at night when they&#39;re not in use during the day. 
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In this episode, the Book Spider crew discusses PKD&#39;s A Scanner Darkly, which deals with addiction, authority, and the nature of identity. Enjoy!
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S4 Ep1: Can Xue&#39;s Love in the New Millennium
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Can Xue&#39;s Love in the New Millennium is a dense, confusing novel which portrays a complex web of relationships with no clear center, and lacks a conventional protagonist. It is, perhaps, a fitting choice for our first episode under the new name Book Spider.
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S3 Ep15: On Michael Crichton&#39;s Sphere
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In this episode, we chat about Michael Chrichton&#39;s novel Sphere, which Hans claims is the only one of the popular novelist&#39;s books that has depth enough for an extended discussion.
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S3 Ep14: On Dana Spiotta&#39;s Eat the Document
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In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I discuss Dana Spiotta&#39;s Eat the Document, a novel that tells the story of two activists through shifting experiences and time periods. Check it out.
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In this episodes, Hans, Chris, and I discuss Keith Gessen&#39;s A Terrible Country, which is a novel that explores corruption in modern day Russia. Check it out.
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S3 Ep12: On Mieko Kawakami&#39;s Heaven
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In this episode, we discuss the classic novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest. Turns out, it&#39;s kind of problematic.
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Note to listeners: I mistakenly refer to Oloixarac as Peruvian in this episode, when she is in fact Argentine.
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In this episode, Chris, Hans, and I discuss the classic novel Invisible Man, which examines black identity, the sense of invisibility, and individuality in the fifties in the United States.
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In this episode, Hans, Chris, and I discuss a trilogy of novellas that deals with questions of identity and loss of self.
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