Books of Some Substance
A podcast by David Southard and Nathan Sharp
113 Episodes
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53 - Milan Kundera's The Joke Examined
Published: 21/07/2020 -
52 - William H. Gass' Omensetter's Luck Examined
Published: 13/06/2020 -
51 - Erecting Words: William H. Gass' Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Published: 12/05/2020 -
50 - Death by Abstraction: Albert Camus' The Plague
Published: 23/04/2020 -
49 - Hell Yeah, Sex Week: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Published: 29/03/2020 -
48 - Space Anarchy!: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Published: 21/02/2020 -
47 - Avuncular Bumbler: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
Published: 27/01/2020 -
46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Published: 22/12/2019 -
45 - The Substance of Influence: Ross Farrar of Ceremony on Saul Bellow
Published: 21/11/2019 -
44 - The Substance of Influence: Catherine Flynn on James Joyce
Published: 20/10/2019 -
43 - Watt the Hell?: Samuel Beckett's Watt
Published: 29/09/2019 -
42 - Didi Up Before You Gogo: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Published: 25/08/2019 -
41 - The Substance of Influence with Caleb Michael Sarvis
Published: 18/07/2019 -
40 - #nihilism: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (Guest: Kathleen Founds)
Published: 24/06/2019 -
39 - A Good Misfit Is Hard to Define: Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Published: 07/05/2019 -
38 - The Substance of Influence with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Published: 16/04/2019 -
37 - The Miserable Pulp of Decay: László Krasznahorkai's Satantango
Published: 23/03/2019 -
36 - This Fruit Is Dynamite!: Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Guest: Roanne Kantor)
Published: 16/02/2019 -
35 - The Last Super Blood Wolf Moon: László Krasznahorkai's The Last Wolf
Published: 26/01/2019 -
34: United in Putrification: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Guest: Summer Star)
Published: 03/12/2018
The unofficial podcast of literary misfits everywhere who want to engage with books of "substance" (i.e. serious, respected, heavy, philosophical, classic), or at least considered such.