The Big Read Cast

Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Reading too widely and talking too seriously.

  1. Jan 15

    Year in Reading: 2025

    Bill and Joel read a lot of books in 2025! They talked about them while drinking beer and bourbon the other day, and you can listen to that conversation here!

    2h 46m

  2. 11/07/2025

    Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)

    Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025) by Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

    2 hr

  3. 06/10/2025

    Episode Twenty-Seven: An Instance of the Fingerpost (June 2025)

    Joel and Bill read Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, a Rashomon-like murder mystery set in late 17th century Oxford that goes some very fun places!

    1h 30m

  4. 02/18/2025

    Episode Twenty-Six: The Enchantments of Mammon (February 2025)

    Bill and Joel read through Eugene McCarraher's anti-capitalist tome The Enchantments of Mammon, and only end up preaching a little bit!

    1h 29m

  5. 01/20/2025

    Year in Reading: 2024

    Joel and Bill go through most of the books they read in 2024!

    1h 36m

  6. 10/22/2024

    Episode Twenty-Five: The Chronicles of Amber: The Corwin Cycle (October 2024)

    Bill and Joel take a bunch of LSD and go to the Ren Faire. Or they read the first cycle in Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber. Same difference, really.

    1h 32m

  7. 07/09/2024

    Guest Read Episode Four - Cahokia Jazz (July 2024)

    Bill and Joel are joined once again by the great Phil Christman for a guest podcast, this one about Cahokia Jazz, the alternate-history noir written by the incomparable Francis Spufford!

    1h 41m

  8. 04/24/2024

    Episode Twenty-Four: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (April 2024)

    Joel and Bill wade through Laurence Sterne's wild and digressive masterpiece, and do their best not to get distracted throughout.

    1h 27m
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Reading too widely and talking too seriously.

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  • Creator
    Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Clean
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