Episodes

5 days ago
255. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
5 days ago
5 days ago
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)

Monday May 05, 2025
254. Awesome Anthropomorphic Animals
Monday May 05, 2025
Monday May 05, 2025
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakiss (1997) vs Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1994)

Monday Apr 28, 2025
253. Guilty Pleasure Books
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (2009) vs Vintage 1975 Map Book Pacific Coast Highways Automobile Club of Southern California (1975)

Monday Apr 21, 2025
252. NYT Bestsellers
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (2025) vs The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2024)

Monday Apr 14, 2025
251. Thinking Inside the Box
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025

Monday Apr 07, 2025
250. 250 Years of American History
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen (2017) vs Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges (2009)

Monday Mar 31, 2025

Monday Mar 24, 2025
248. YA Fiction
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Harun Aur Kahaniyo Ka Samunder by Salman Rushdie (1990) vs The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)

Monday Mar 17, 2025
247. Your Attention
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas G. Carr (2025) vs The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes (2025)

Monday Mar 10, 2025
246. Jorge Luis Borges
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (1944-1955) vs The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (1945)