The Projectionist's Lending Library

Erik and Nathanael venture into the uncanny world of Area X, where words lose meaning and form loses consistency. Along the way they discuss Lovecraft, Nature's revenge, and the nature of grief. Stock audio for the intro and conclusion can be found here , here , and here .

How do you celebrate the most epic s.f. franchise of all time? With the most epic podcast of all time! In this episode, Erik and Nathanael explore Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel Planet of the Apes as well as all of the movies based on it. Hear Booth's thoughts on James Franciscus! Hear Kline's digressions on James Franco! Hear both of them nearly come to blows over how close the 1968 movie...

Kline and Booth take on Zack Snyder's Watchmen and the HBO sequel to the book. We also digress, extensively, on superhero movies in general. Additional material: Alan Moore talks - 02 - Watchmen by Comics Brittania HBO's Watchmen: A Thermodynamic Disaster by Macabre Storytelling (video referenced by Booth in the episode)

Kline and Booth return for a season full of science fictional weirdness. In this, the first of two episodes on Watchmen , the two take an extended look at Allan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic de/reconstruction of superhero mythology. This is the first of two episodes. Next month will feature a discussion of the Zach Snyder movie adaptation of Watchmen and the HBO miniseries sequel. At one poi...

Erik and Nathanael are joined by special guest Will Murray to discuss Chester Himes' novel Cotton Comes to Harlem . Discussion includes the nature of reclamation and revolution and historical shifts in discussing racial issues. Please note that there are substantial audio issues with this episode. We do think that the conversation is well worth listening to.

In this special holiday episode, Kline and Booth discuss James Joyce's short story "The Dead" from his 1914 collection DUBLINERS, as well as the 1987 adaptation, John Huston's last film, and starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McGann. As they parse out the complexities of Joyce's style and what makes the story so quintessentially modernist, they also examine how it fits into t...

Booth and Kline tackle Ellery Queen's Ten Commandments themed novel Ten Days' Wonder and the 1971 adaptation of it by Claude Chabrol. What do you do with a God who makes impossible demands and enacts disproportionate judgement? How should humans press forward in a world shattered by war? And how old, after all, is Ellery Queen? These questions and more are addressed in this episode. If you...

Part 2 of 2. Booth and Kline discuss the movie adaptation(s) of In Cold Blood and the biopics covering its writing: Capote and Infamous . Topics covered include the ethics of adaptation, the use of source materials, and the way Capote's structure informs all subsequent adaptations. Join us for our most controversial episode yet! Will Kline and Booth agree on the relative merits of Capote and I...

Kline and Booth discuss Jorge Luis Borges' "Death and the Compass" and the 1992 film adaptation. But the discussion is itself a labyrinth, covering (among other topics) metaphysical detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Alan Moore, and Batman.

Erik and Nathanael are once again joined by Dr. Matthew Wells, who last appeared in "The Swimmer" episode of season one. This time, the three discuss Dorothy B. Hughes's 1947 thriller novel, IN A LONELY PLACE, and the 1950 film adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.

Booth and Kline are joined by special guest Steph Parker to discuss John Berendt's 1994 book and the 1997 Clint Eastwood movie based on it. Note that Booth misidentifies a podcast he listened to featuring John Berendt. The podcast is Queer We Are and can be listened to here.

Nathanael and Erik dive into William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley and Guillermo del Toro's 2021 adaptation. Topics include: freakishness, tarot, whether authors get any say on what their symbolism does. For further information see: Abbot, Megan. "Megan Abbot on the Difference between Hardboiled and Noir." Adams, Rachel. Sideshow U.S.A. Freaks and the American Cultural Imagin...

Erik and Nathanael are joined by Jennie Lightweis-Goff to discuss James Dickey's 1970 novel Deliverance and the film based on it. Topics include: masculinity, nature, and freakishness. Please be aware that due to the graphic nature of the content of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

In this episode we take a trip to midcentury California and into the lives of the bored and desperate. It's Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion. This movie is not easy to find, but it is on YouTube . Youtube Videos: The American Experience as told by Joan Didion (2003) (Source of our first intersegment bumper) Joan Didion, 1971. Katarzyna Nowak McNeice - "Joan Didion’s California and the Melancholic...

A guest joins Nathanael and Erik to untangle midcentury malaise. Tune in for suburban flotation.

Caitlan Sumner joins us to discuss Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) and the 1967 John Huston movie based on it. Further Reading:  Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. U of Georgia P, 2003. Gleeson-White, Sarah. "Revisiting the Southern Grotesque: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Case of Carson McCullers." The Southern Literary Journal, Volume...

Guest Carl Watts joins us to discuss Gore Vidal's troubling novel Myra Breckinridge . Check out Carl's book I Just Wrote This Five Minutes Ago , newly out from Gordon Hill Press  In light of the ongoing attacks on trans communities throughout the US and the world, we would like to direct listeners to the GLAAD transgender resource page: https://www.glaad.org/transgender/resources Further Read...

In part II of our inaugural episode, we discuss I am a Camera and Cabaret and the changes they rang on Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories

Welcome to the Projectionist's Lending Library. In this episode, we discuss The Berlin Stories , which were later adapted as I am a Camera and Cabaret .