It’s Lit! Book Club

Do you ever listen to Mama's Gun with your friends? Do you sometimes wet the bed? Are you sad as hell? Then join us as we discuss Kaveh Akbar's "Martyr!".

Have you ever been hypnotized? Have you ever inhaled glowing particles from a plant? Do you have a name? Then join us as we discuss Jeff VanderMeer's "Annihilation."

Do you just love a river? You ever just go a lil crazy? Then join us as we discuss Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."

Do you like songs in books? Can you handle a "main character" that's not altogether good? Did you ever frequent an LA theatre in the 70's? Then join us as we discuss Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow."

Do you think British candy is disgusting?? Does a special kind of plastic make you feel a very special kind of way? Is your partner sick of hearing you talk about bizarre passages from a confounding book? Then join us as we discuss the first half of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow."

In a characteristically succinct and focused episode we answer questions written in from our listeners.

In this episode we look back on the six books that we read in Season 2 (Moby Dick, The Old Man and the Sea, Libra, The Metamorphosis, Ficciones, and As I Lay Dying.)

Do you hate receiving favors? Are you picky about the way your coffin will look when you die? Has a childhood illness left you unable to sweat otherwise you will die? Then join us as we discuss William Faulkner's excellent "As I Lay Dying". 0:00 - cold open 07:24 - intro 11:20 - Faulkner background and context 20:00 - summary 22:25 - Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three cat...

Do you aspire to writing Don Quixote yourself? Do you dream up worlds with their own physics, philosophy, and history? Do you love reading the word "hexagon" a bunch of times? Then join us as we discuss "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges.

What bug would you be if you were a bug? Have you ever fallen asleep at your job and been sentenced to die ? When was the last time you went 30 days without eating ? Join us as we discuss Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Hunger Artist".

Do you love secrets? Have you ever defected to the Soviet Union? Do you survive solely off of citrus and amphetamines? Then join us as we discuss Don DeLillo's "Libra".

Do you think all books should be less than 100 pages? Have you had 84 days of bad luck and are looking to turn things around? Is there an old baseball player that you constantly look to for inspiration and affirmation? Then join us as we discuss Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".

Are you satisfied with simply two incredible characters? Would you strike the sun if it offended you? Do you think Moby Dick deserves over 45,000 one star reviews on goodreads ? Regardless of your answers, join us as we discuss Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".

Do you feel like most books lack enough whale anatomy explanation? Does your mind ever make life affirming connections between ocean life and philosophy? Are you missing one leg? Then let's discuss Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".

In this episode we look back on the six books that we read in Season 1 (The Great Gatsby, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Savage Detectives, Play It As It Lays, Inherent Vice, and Blood Meridian.)

Have you ever considered changing your first name? Do you love an epilogue that is too cryptic to mean anything to you? Has a description of a desert ever moved you to tears? Then let's discuss Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian". 0:00 - cold open 11:08 - intro 14:55 - Cormac McCarthy bio & context 21:25 - plot summary 28:00 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Quest...

Does your heart race when you hear Nicolas Cage's name mentioned? Did you smoke weed once or twice in high school? Do your parents ever talk to you about one of your exes? Then let's discuss Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice". 0:00 - cold open 5:30 - intro 8:20 - Thomas Pynchon bio & context / postmodernism 21:57 - plot summary 27:20 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me The...

Do you get excited when Ghostface Killah yells at you? Do you enjoy short chapters and lists? Can you handle facetious remarks about actually serious subjects? Then let's discuss Joan Didion's "Play It As It Lays". 0:00 - cold open 8:58 - intro 11:34 - Joan Didion bio & context 14:05 - plot summary 24:38 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category...

Do you like the song "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants? Do you remember when Saul Goodman said he knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy? Do you want to groove for a while with Butthead? Join us as we thoroughly analyze and make total and complete sense of Arturo Belano's masterpiece The Savage Detectives. 0:00 - cold open 10:12 - intro 11:14 - context 17:17 - plot summary 22:28 - category...

When was the last time you gasped? How do you feel about asymmetrical surfboards? How often do you think about your inevitable death? We tackle these hard hitting questions and more as we discuss Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 0:00 - cold open 3:46 - intro 7:50 - context (Marquez, Latin American lit) 10:45 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer M...

Who is the most punchable character in The Great Gatsby? When is the best time to play Changes by David Bowie during this book? Have we ever cried over how beautiful a shirt was? We delve into the hard-hitting questions that the government doesn't want you to tackle in our first episode of the It's Lit Podcast. 0:00 - cold open 5:14 - intro 6:00 - context (modernism, Fitzgerald, etc.) 17:55 - cate...