BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB

IN TODAY'S EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB, WE DISCUSS ONE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE'S MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL ESSAYS, E UNIBUS PLURAM: TELEVISION AND U.S. FICTION. IN THIS ESSAY, DFW DISCUSSES THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION ON FICTION, THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION AND LITERATURE, THE NATURE OF POSTMODERN ART AND FICTION, IRONY, METAFICTION, SOCIAL MEDIA, LONELINESS, AND A WHOLE LOT MO...

IN TODAY'S EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB (WHICH IS, IN FACT, HOME OF THE BEST SHORT STORY CLUBS), WE DISCUSS ONE OF THE GREAT FRANZ KAFKA'S MOST FAMOUS STORIES: A HUNGER ARTIST. AS FAR AS KAFKA GOES, THIS STORY SEEMS RELATIVELY TAME: IT APPEARS TO BE A SIMPLE STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO IS DEVOTED TO FASTING, WHOSE ART IS NOT RECOGNIZED PROPERLY BY THE WORLD. BUT THIS IS A KAFKA STO...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMETHING ALIGHTS ON EARTH WHOSE VERY EXISTENCE IS BEYOND CONCEPTION? AND WHAT IF ITS EXISTENCE IS MALICIOUS? OR WORSE, INDIFFERENT? JOIN JAKE AND I FOR ANOTHER DISCUSSION OF ONE OF THE LEGENDARY H.P. LOVECRAFT'S MOST FAMOUS SHORT STORIES: THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE. IT ALL BEGINS WITH THE LANDING OF A METEOR...HOW DOES MODERNITY REACT IN THE FACE OF THE INEXPLICABILITIES WHICH...

EVERY EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB IS SPECIAL: BUT SOME EPISODES ARE MORE SPECIAL THAN OTHERS. THIS, DEAR LISTENER, IS ONE OF THOSE EPISODES. JOIN ELIOTT AND I AS WE DISCUSS JOSEPH CAMPBELL'S MYTH AND THE MODERN WORLD, THE FIRST CHAPTER OF CAMPBELL'S BESTSELLING BOOK (AS WELL AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SERIES IN THIS HISTORY OF TELEVISION): THE POWER OF MYTH. WE DISCUSS A NUM...

TODAY MARKS A HISTORIC DAY FOR BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB: IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS OUR FIRST WORK OF PHILOSOPHY, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT? BY THOMAS NAGEL. IN THIS SEMINAL PAPER, NAGEL POSES ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN ALL OF PHILOSOPHY AND DISCUSSES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD. CAN CONSCIOUSNESS BE REDUCED TO THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF...

WELCOME TO A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB, WHERE WE DISCUSS A CORE MIDDLE SCHOOL MEMORY FOR ALL U.S. CITIZENS: YOU GUESSED IT, TODAY WE ARE DISCUSSING THE LOTTERY BY SHIRLEY JACKSON--AND IT IS EVEN BETTER AND MORE FUCKED UP THAN YOU REMEMBER. TOUCHING ON THEMES OF RITUAL, HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY, MORALLY QUESTIONABLE TRADITIONS, AND THE MASTERFULLY CHILLING PROSE OF MS. JACKSON...

WELCOME TO A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB WHERE I AM JOINED BY THE ONE AND ONLY JARED HENDERSON TO DISCUSS ONE OF THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHICAL STORIES OF ALL TIME: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS, WRITTEN BY THE EIGHT-TIME HUGO AWARD WINNER, SIX-TIME NEBULA AWARD WINNER, AND TWENTY-FOUR-TIME LOCUS AWARD WINNER URSULA K. LE GUIN. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS THE NATURE OF...

WELCOME OR WELCOME BACK TO BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB ! TODAY WE DISCUSS ONE OF BORGES' MOST FAMOUS SHORT STORIES: THE ALEPH. IT IS THE POINT WITHIN WHICH ALL OTHER POINTS ARE CONTAINED, AND ALSO FEATURES BORGES IN RARE COMICAL FORM. WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MARCEL DUCHAMP AND MODERN ART? JEWISH MYSTICISM? DON QUIXOTE? DON'T BE A CARLOS ARGENTINO: TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!  THE ALEP...

WELCOME OR WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB, WHERE I AM JOINED BY THE ONE AND ONLY ELIOTT TO DISCUSS ONE OF THE GREATEST HORROR WRITERS OF ALL TIME: H.P. LOVECRAFT. IN THIS SEMINAL STORY WE DIVE INTO (OR RATHER ASCEND THE HEIGHTS??) OF CLASSIC LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR IN A MOST INSIGHTFUL, FRIGHTFUL, AND DELIGHTFUL DISCUSSION. TUNE IN AND SEE THE LIGHT !  LET US KNOW Y...

TODAY WE HAVE A *VERY* SPECIAL EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB. WHY SO SPECIAL? BECAUSE TODAY WE DISCUSS IN THE PENAL COLONY BY FRANZ KAFKA: QUITE POSSIBLY MY FAVORITE STORY BY KAFKA AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES OF ALL TIME.  DREAM-LIKE, HORRIFIC, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND RIPE FOR INTERPRETATION, BIG NATE AND ELIOTT GO HARD AS FUCK ON THIS HARROW-ING STORY OF KAFKA'S. WITH THE OLD COMMA...

TODAY WE DISCUSS THE MAN, THE MYTH, AND THE LEGEND: JORGE LUIS BORGES, ARGUABLY THE FATHER OF ALL MAGICAL REALISM AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS OF ALL TIME. IN THIS HISTORIC EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB WE DISCUSS ONE OF BORGES' MOST FAMOUS WORKS: THE LIBRARY OF BABEL. ALL I WILL SAY IS THAT BY THIS ART YOU MAY CONTEMPLATE THE VARIATION OF THE 23 LETTERS. WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I...

WELCOME OR WELCOME BACK TO BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB, HOME OF THE BEST SHORT STORY CLUBS. TODAY IN THIS HISTORIC EPISODE I AM JOINED BY ELIOTT TO DISCUSS THE YELLOW WALLPAPER BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, ONE OF MY FAVORITE LITERARY HORROR SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME. AND FOR GOOD REASON, AS YOU SHALL SOON SEE!! COME CREEP WITH US AS WE DIVE DEEP INTO THE MIND OF OUR NAMELESS PROTAGONIST, AS SH...

TODAY I AM JOINED WITH ME BY IAN TO DISCUSS ONE OF ANNIE DILLIARD'S MOST FAMOUS ESSAYS, TEACHING A STONE TO TALK. IF YOU LIKE EXISTENTIAL CRISES AND NATURE, THEN WE'VE GOT THE ESSAY FOR YOU! FORTUNATELY FOR YOU WE HAVE IN FACT BEEN TAUGHT TO TALK AND THIS IS JUST WHAT WE DO, PERHAPS FOR TOO LONG, IN THIS SMASHING, GUEST-DEBUT EPISODE. A MUST LISTEN! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO BIG NATE'...

WHAT'S GOOD EVERYBODY, TODAY I AM JOINED WITH ME BY JAKE TO DISCUSS HARLAN ELLISON'S INFAMOUS STORY: I HAVE NO MOUTH, AND I MUST SCREAM. ARE YOU A FAN OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? DO YOU LIKE HELL? UNENDING MORTAL TORMENT? THEN HAVE WE GOT THE STORY FOR YOU! JAKE AND I DO IN FACT HAVE MOUTHS, SO JOIN US IN THIS 5 STAR EXCELLENT, RARE AND LIMITED TIME OFFER DISCUSSION OF THE STORY! ALSO, PLE...

WHAT'S GOOD PARTY PEOPLE TODAY I AM JOINED WITH ME BY ELIOTT DOYLE TO DISCUSS WILLIAM FAULKNER'S MUCH-ACCLAIMED STORY, A ROSE FOR EMILY. THINGS GET FUNKY. I BELIEVE FAULKNER ROSE TO THE OCCASSION WITH THIS ONE. READ THE STORY YOURSELF AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION BY EMAILING ME AT NATHANISCASHMONEY@GMAIL.COM. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB, HOME OF THE BEST SHORT STO...

TODAY WE DISCUSS THE DEAD, BY JAMES JOYCE: ACCORDING TO T. S. ELIOT, ONE OF THE GREATEST SHORT STORIES EVER WRITTEN. DAN BERRY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES SAID IT IS "JUST ABOUT THE FINEST SHORT STORY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." WOW ! BIG WORDS.. WHAT'S THE FUSS? YOU MUST BE DYING TO KNOW. READ THE STORY AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION BY EMAILING ME AT NATHANISCASHMONEY@GMAIL.COM. THANK YOU FOR LIS...

TODAY I AM JOINED BY LONG-TIME FRIEND AND FELLOW HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE JAKE TO DISCUSS ONE OF RAYMOND CARVER'S MOST FAMOUS STORIES, CATHEDRAL. IT IS SO GOOD YOU HAVE TO BE BLIND NOT TO SEE IT. LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS STORY AT NATHANISCASHMONEY@GMAIL.COM, AND LET US KNOW WHAT OTHER STORIES YOU'D LIKE JAKE AND I TO DISCUSS. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB...

WELCOME TO THE DEBUT EPISODE OF BIG NATE'S SHORT STORY CLUB, HOME OF THE BEST SHORT STORY CLUBS! TODAY I'M JOINED BY MATT MARTELLA TO DISCUSS ONE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S MOST FAMOUS SHORT STORIES, BARN BURNING, WHICH TRULY IS FIRE. LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE STORY OR DISCUSSION AT NATHANISCASHMONEY@GMAIL.COM. LET US KNOW WHAT OTHER STORIES YOU'D LIKE US TO DO AS WELL! THANK YOU...

TODAY WE PULL AN OG EPISODE FROM THE ARCHIVES TO VISIT HOMER'S THE ILIAD, ONE OF THE SUPREME WORKS OF ALL LITERATURE. JOIN US IN THIS EPIC SAGA AS MATT AND I DISCUSS THIS TRULY EPIC WORK OF FICTION. WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS IN THE WAR BETWEEN ARGIVES AND TROJANS, ACHILLES AND HECTOR? TUNE IN TO FIND OUT: THIS BOOK IS ALL THE RAGE! IN THE MEANTIME, FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME ANY OTHER BOOKS YOU'D...