A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 1
No lasers, no spaceships, just a sci-fi novel about a monk who finds a grocery list. Featuring our first ever guest on the podcast! Sorry we mentioned the new pope so many times–it was really relevan...
17 Nov 20251h 24min
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
After an unintentional summer hiatus, we’re back with the third and final installment of our short series on Borges short stories. And oh no! It turns out a billionaire creating a fantasy planet with...
19 Sep 202541min
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
If we claimed we wrote a Borges story and read it in its entirety at the end of our podcast, that would make the story infinitely richer. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote By Jorge Luis Borges Pu...
2 Jun 202551min
The Library of Babel
An infinite library implies the existence of infinite Mr. Beast video transcripts. The Library of Babel By Jorge Luis Borges Published in 1941 by Editorial Sur. Part of the story collection “The Ga...
30 Apr 202548min
Carrie
The moral of this story is to not bully the girl with latent psychic abilities. CW: discussions of violence, blood, domestic abuse, various sexual stuff, misogyny, religious abuse, and I’m sure other...
14 Apr 20251h 13min
Dungeon Crawler Carl
I guess books are just video games now. This week we cover “Dungeon Crawler Carl”, the first book in the best-selling LitRPG series of the same name. Dungeon Crawler Carl By Matt Dinniman Self-pub...
1 Apr 202559min
Watchmen
That’s right, we read comic books now! Just kidding, it’s called a graphic novel. And this one’s about a bunch of superheroes who aren’t really that super and one blue guy who is TOO super. Get read...
17 Mar 20251h 14min
The Way of Kings - Part 2
We finish The Way of Kings and are left with boredomspren floating around our computers. Plus, we read some one-star Goodreads reviews of The Way of Kings and do a quick overview of the other Storm...
3 Mar 20251h 17min
