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Book Spider Xi Draconis Books
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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor.
Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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Enjoying the Longest DeLillo - Underworld - Part 1
The first in a three-parter in which we tackle DeLillo's meganovel, Underworld. In this episode we discuss just about the first third of the novel. And: We crack ourselves up imagining a Werner Herzog baseball documentary.
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The Opacity of Violence: Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun
In this episode, the Spiders try to analyze Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, a harrowing novel of the decades-long occupation of Palestine by Israel. However, the challenge is overwhelming, as it appears that violence may not be interpretable.
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The boundary between golden myth and secret history in Don DeLillo's Pafko at the Wall
The spiders consider the novella Pafko at the Wall, the first fifty pages of Don DeLillo's Underworld. Does its careful examination of its period kitsch reveal a deeper thematic weight? I mean, probably.
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Mysteries of connection and communication in Katie Kitamura's Intimacies
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The Joy and Frustration in Not Going Too Deep Into the Details of Nabokov's Pale Fire
In which we struggle to talk about a text that is famous for generating endless discussion about how to talk about it.
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Sandra Newman's Julia, and George Orwell's 1984
In this episode, the spiders discuss Julia, by Sandra Newman, which is a retelling of 1984, by George Orwell. Julia tells the classic dystopian tale from the perspective of the original's main female character, and in so doing, retcons the original in both positive and negative ways.