how to win the lottery: a book club p...
a book club, like oprah’s if oprah were two suburban guys from new jersey, or reese witherspoon’s if reese were two suburban guys from new jersey, except without the engine of fame that those two huge stars provide. but come on: oprah is not going to answer your emails. (trust us, we know.) every two weeks, a new book microscoped and surgeried by benevolent despot joey lewandowski and disgraced college professor "shreds"... with your help! here's a guarantee: every episode ends with an arrestable crime. will it be something boring like credit card fraud or something sexy like a casino heist? listen to find out.
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land of milk and honey by c. pam zhang
"on sunday we slathered brioche with cultured butter, dolloped crème fraîche on daubes, and spooned a pudding of aida’s creation. the interior was so creamy it recalled the molten center of the earth. if the land of milk and honey produced no further milk, this meal proclaimed, then we would sup of the last like kings and queens."
47 min
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season nine theme and reading list
we're thinking local, reading global.
21 min
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david connerley nahm interview (author of ancie...
we talk to david connerley nahm, author of ancient oceans of central kentucky, about "delicate" horror, the editing process, and ernest p. worrell.
53 min
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ancient oceans of central kentucky by david con...
"and the boy sunk to the bottom of the sea and the slow churn of the ancient ocean turned his bones to dust and turned the dust to stone and over the silent turning of the bottom of the ocean, no light fell and his name was lost among the shards of bone and shell."
39 min
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the vine that ate the south by j.d. wilkes
"but dixie-phobes take heart. the southland is not just some spook house, some bigoted hellhole. hollywood gives us a bad rap. for the same unsophistication that leads to belligerence and prejudice in some can produce the finest qualities in others. not far from where the scum of the earth park their trailers, the salt of the earth tend their lawns. the old folks at home."
46 min
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season eight theme and reading list
suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#3)
18 min
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ragnarok by walter simonson
"... tell them simply that the stone god was here."
46 min
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prison pit by johnny ryan
"no bros. no mercy. complete and total slaughter."
36 min
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kingdom come by mark waid, alex ross
"they no longer fight for the right. they fight simply to fight, their only foes each other."
40 min
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asterios polyp by david mazzucchelli
"to live (as i understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. but to remember is to vacate the very notion of time."
43 min
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this one summer by mariko tamaki, jillian tamaki
"boobs would be cool."
33 min
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bitter root by david f. walker, chuck brown, sa...
46 min
63
ann nocenti interview (author of the seeds)
we talk to marcos martin, author of the seeds, about hexagons, fake news, and andrei tarkovsky.
47 min
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the seeds by ann nocenti, david aja
37 min
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no longer human by junji ito
"you did it... on purpose..."
49 min
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marcos martin interview (illustrator of the pri...
we talk to marcos martin, illustrator of the private eye, about forming panel syndicate, cinematic credits pages, and technology that would survive the cloudburst.
50 min
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the private eye by brian k. vaughan, marcos mar...
"he's gone to ground."
54 min
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gender queer by maia kobabe
"but why am i like this??? someimtes i feel like my sexuality is broken and my gender is broken."
32 min
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coyote doggirl by lisa hanawalt
"i just want to find red and go home."
33 min
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understanding comics by scott mccloud + season ...
we're diving into graphic content.
119 min
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sunburn by laura lippman
"he looks into his own drink and says out loud, as if to himself: 'what kind of an asshole orders red wine in a tavern in belleville, delaware?'"
33 min
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the book of unknown americans by cristina henrí...
"we have all the spanish supermarkets now, and the school district started those english programs. i know some people here think we’re trying to take over, but we just want to be a part of it. we want to have our stake. this is our home, too."
47 min
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fight club by chuck palahniuk
"we’ve just lost cabin pressure."
67 min
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season six theme and reading list
suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#2)
13 min
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infinite jest by david foster wallace
"because when he gets high he develops a powerful obsession with having nobody—not even the neurochemical cadre—know he’s high. this obsession is almost irresistible in its force. the amount of organization and toiletry-lugging he has to do to get secretly high in front of a subterranean outtake vent in the pre-supper gap would make a lesser man quail."
105 min