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Heinlein's sci-fi classic is rather different from the campy satire of Paul Verhoeven's 1997 adaptation. You can ask similar questions of both. Do they gleefully depict fascism? Do they glorify mili...

For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This episode posted first for our...

Come and get the super-specific, mood-based recommendations for what to read, watch, listen to, meditate on, and obsess over you've been yearning for!!!!!! Click to read The Retro Report, by Jessica M...

We chat with author Jessica M. Goldstein about Retro, which follows an out-of-work actress who gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past...

They'll never write a time travel story that Andrew won't try! This week's riff on the formula includes megalomaniac tech billionaires, millennial malaise, and an astoundingly dangerous amusement park...

The celebrity chef reflects on his role in the abusive, male-dominated industry that made him a star.

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Patrick Radden Keefe profiled the late chef and star of “Parts Unknown,” in 2017. “I travel around the world, eat a lot of shit, and basically do whatever the fuck I want,” he said.

Shhhh...this episode is confidential. The kitchen secrets divulged by bad boy chef Anthony "Tony" Bourdain will Rock Your World. Or will they? This breakout essay collection laid much of the foundatio...

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Natalie Dormer, best known as the young queen Margaery Tyrell on Game of Thrones, will star in an Australian six-part series based on Joan Lindsay’s classic 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, about…

This classic of twentieth-century Australian literature isn't a Whodunnit. It isn't a Howdunnit. It's barely a dunnit at all. It's a certifiable Whahappen?? Support the show! Buy the book on Booksho...

hello locked tomblr! i was at the tamsyn muir event in oxford - here are my notes i've tried to group them thematically rather than chronologically, and to point out spoilers when i can. there are...

Do you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I have the book for you! What began as Tamsyn Muir's concludi...

For this new show-within-a-show, Andrew and Craig will learn all about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. We'll read the five books in this classic children's fantasy series, then close o...

The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst’s debut novel, “Waist Deep,” a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.

Linea Maja Ernst’s debut book was an instant bestseller in Denmark. Now, following its UK release, we sat down with the writer to speak queerness, polyamory and what it means to be a “real adult”.

This is a book about what happens when a formerly tight-knight group of longtime friends rents a house in the woods for a week. Having to deal with your friends' significant others is one possible haz...

TRAVIS WAYNE BALDREE was born March 28, 1977 in Nacogdoches TX and grew up on a dairy farm. In fourth grade, his family moved to Washington State, and he attended Washington State University briefly b...

The bestselling fantasy author discusses his switch from indie to traditional publishing and how he pushes the boundaries of reader expectations in his latest release, Brigands & Breadknives.

This story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment. It's a romance-adjacent found family story set in a cozy coffee shop set against a D&D-flavored backdrop, a place w...

Elizabeth Strout interview: Random House Reader's Circle sat down with Olive Kitteridge and Elizabeth Strout in a doughnut shop in Olive's hometown of Crosby, Maine.

Olive Kitteridge sold a million copies and won a Pulitzer. Can a follow-up recapture its magic? Elizabeth Strout talks about surprise success in her sixth decade

Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quickly into the deep end with cha...

How the director turned Homer’s Odyssey into a surprisingly intimate film.

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The director discusses why he changed the end of the epic, Oppenheimer parallels, and the Athena character

Sing, O Muse, of an adapted poem - specifically Homer's Odyssey as adapted for the silver screen by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. That's right, we went to an actual movie theater to see the blockbuster...

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and buzz around Emily Wilson's translation of Homer, we thought we would unlock this special Stop! Homer Time episode originally released to ...

With On the Calculation of Volume I shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translator about time-loop stories, classical Japanese prose and their favourite Boo...

Welcome to the 18th of November, friends! What's that you say? It's not the 18th of November for you? Well it is for us! Over and over and over again. Support the show! Buy the book on Bookshop.org.

We're almost at the end of our long journey, but before we wrap up with Book 24 and our closing thoughts, we took some time to sit down with Emily Wilson and chat about her wonderful translation of Ho...

Since its publication, Toni Morrison's first book has consistently landed on the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books.