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

Joel and Bill discuss the books they read in 2023 and some plans for 2024!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel read a small but dense text: two essays by 17th-century doctor, philosopher, writer, and weirdo Sir Thomas Browne!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill read Vernor Vinge's 1992 Hugo-award winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep. It's the best book about group-mind dog packs either of them have ever read.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill return from their hiatus with a discussion of Kate Atkinson's novel Life After Life, which basically Groundhog Day but over the space of an entire life and in the first half of the 20th century.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel go through some of the books they read in 2022!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel read The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, which covers his early life and his career in the Civil War, with extensive and excellent annotations by Elizabeth D. Samet, Bill only deploys a *few* Sherman memes.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill read Frans G. Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," an excellent romp throughout 10th and 11th-century Scandinavia, Britain, and Spain. Join us as we go a-Viking, friends!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel are joined by one of the best essayists in America, Phil Christman, to talk about Adam Roberts's barnstorming novel The This, which is about hive minds, social media, Coleridge and, most importantly, GWF Hegel.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel read Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight, a sublime tale of a young man in an adult's body who has a series of adventures throughout a seven-tiered world of knights, dragons, and wizards.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Is it a novel? Is it an anthropology textbook? Is it, possibly, both? Joel and Bill read Ursula K. Le Guin's 1985 text Always Coming Home, about a possible future people living in what is now the Napa Valley.Also here's the bandcamp: https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh…

Bill and Joel read a lot of books in 2021! Bill, specifically, read 104 of them, a fact he's certainly not going to be repeating ad nauseum throughout this podcast!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill read Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, a three-volume novel about life in 14th century Norway. It's a profound tale of love, lust, stabbings, and, at one point, licking a child's eyes.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel read Studs Terkel's oral history "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" which is about just that. Also a few tangents about other things.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel, Bill, and special guest star Martyn Wendell Jones dig through Adam Roberts's The Thing Itself: a nearly indescribable novel about Immanuel Kant, AI, time travel, James Joyce, literary experimentation, and many more things.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill, Joel, and Special Guest Christy go through Connie Willis's masterful and award-winning novel Doomsday Book!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill read Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill read a bunch of books in 2020! They talk about what it's like to be reading in a pandemic, and how the many events of 2020 shaped their reading this year. Also, how good is Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, you guys? So good.Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, and lay to rest forever the question of whether or not Franzen is a good novelist! What's their answer? Well, you'll just have to listen to find out!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill dig through Charles Taylor's monumental tome "A Secular Age," an exhaustive survey of the differences between our age's relationship with religion in the 2000s and that of societies in the 1500s. It's a dynamite book, but it's about, well, *everything.*Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill read Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay! But first, given that it would have felt disingenuous not to, we talk a little bit about our Current Political Situation and both our hopes and fears about our growing reckoning with our system of policing, so the first 15 minutes or so of …

Bill and Joel read Phil Christman's new book Midwest Futures, which is about the history, self-conception, and future of the American Midwest, all in about 130 pages!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel start of Season Three with a book about nineteenth-century English magicians! Both of them loved this book to death!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Bill and Joel read a bunch of books in 2019, and here they are talking about some of their favorites, ranging wildly from short books on capitalism to meandering sci-fi tomes! Also: the next Big Read is revealed!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly

Joel and Bill finish their ad hoc "Russian Trilogy" with Leo Tolstoy's vast book War and Peace, sort of the ur-Big Read. Come hang out and listen to us try to make sense of this phenomenal book that is about, you know, all of human existence!Por Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly