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Scott and Marc discuss “A Crime Wave at Blandings” by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the October 10 and October 17, 1936 editions of the Saturday Evening Post. Download or listen via this link: |Single Sitting #5: A … Continue reading →

Eric Jenkins joins Scott to talk about The Aeneid by Virgil! Download or listen via this link: |Shelf Wear Book #9: The Aeneid|

Scott and Marc discuss “Cassandra” by C. J. Cherryh, first published in the October 1978 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. Download or listen via this link: |Single Sitting #4: Cassandra|

Rose and Scott discuss The Woman in the Dunes, a surreal novel by the Japanese author Kobo Abe, published in 1962. Rose and Hannah’s podcasts: More is More: A Bad Movie Podcast An American’s Guide to Bollywood Download or listen … Continue reading →

Noah Clemons (from the booktube channel Everyone Who Reads Must Converse) is back to talk about the last two novels in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. Noah’s Channel: Everyone Who Reads Must Converse Download or listen via this link: … Continue reading →

Noah Clemons joins me from his booktube channel (which is called Everyone Who Reads Must Converse) to talk about the first two books in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos: Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Noah’s Channel: Everyone Who Reads Must … Continue reading →

Paul Weimer brings a chunker with him called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadler. This is a book that explores things like self reference, incompleteness, and consistency from three perspectives: math, art, and music. Download or … Continue reading →

Jason Harrigan joins me from Ireland in this episode to discuss The Rule of St. Benedict, written in 516 by Benedict of Nursia, which is a remarkable book with a lot to say about living life -both secular and religious. … Continue reading →

Scott and Marc discuss “The Last Castle” by Jack Vance, a novella that won a Hugo in 1967 and a Nebula in 1966. Download or listen via this link: |Single Sitting #3: The Last Castle|

Jenny Colvin, from The Reading Envy Podcast, is my guest this week. We discuss a great October read: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. PODCAST Download or listen via this link: | Shelf Wear Book #3: The Only … Continue reading →

In this second episode of the Single Sitting series on the podcast, Marc and I discuss “A Martian Odyssey” by an author whose science fiction career was much too short: Stanley G. Weinbaum. Originally published in 1934 in Wonder Stories … Continue reading →

Julie Davis, my co-host from the A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast, is my guest this week and she brought an excellent food book by Rick Bragg: The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Kitchen. … Continue reading →