You Don’t Know Lit

213. The Westing Game 29.07.2024 29:50 ↓

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)

212. Netflix (RERUN) 22.07.2024 1:00:30 ↓

Travel back in time to episode 26 to when Armie Hammer wasn't yet a cannibal and JD Vance was still a prick. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) vs Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (2016) 

211. East of Eden 15.07.2024 29:11 ↓

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)

210. String Theory 08.07.2024 26:40 ↓

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace (2014)

209. Wisconsin Death Trip 01.07.2024 32:59 ↓

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (1973)

208. The Devotion of Suspect X 24.06.2024 24:24 ↓

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (2005)

207. Tennessee 17.06.2024 49:25 ↓

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979) vs The Firm by John Grisham (1991)

206. Pity the Beast 10.06.2024 26:32 ↓

Pity the Beast by Robin McLean (2021)

205. Knife 03.06.2024 29:51 ↓

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (2024)

204. The Dwarf 28.05.2024 24:03 ↓

The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist (1944) The Dwarf is a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It is considered his most important and artistically innovative novel. The main setting is a fictionalized version of Milan. The character Bernardo of the novel is a fictionalized version of Leonardo da Vinci, who served as a court artist and military architect in Milan from 1482 to 1499. The novel depicts the Italian...

203. Locke & Key 20.05.2024 27:36 ↓

Locke & Key written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (2008)

202. Social Media 13.05.2024 49:22 ↓

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (2019) VS So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (2015)

202. Famous Feuds 06.05.2024 53:52 ↓

Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books by Richard Bradford (2014) VS Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland  by Patrick Radden Keefe (2019) 

201. Unputdownable (RERUN) 29.04.2024 1:00:11 ↓

Basking in our 200th episode for one more week as we take this week off. Throwing it back to our first episode with Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) VS The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1937).

200. Tolkien Archivist William Fliss 22.04.2024 53:39 ↓

We're joined by William Fliss - Marquette University's Tolkien Archivist and co-curator for the exhibition J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette’s campus. Marquette owns the manuscripts for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham, and Mr. Bliss as well as research collections totaling over 11,000 pages.

Ep 199: Books by Billionaires 15.04.2024 54:03 ↓

The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel by MacKenzie Scott (2005) VS Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton (1992)

198. Self Help II 08.04.2024 30:57 ↓

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (2021)

197. Self Help Books I 01.04.2024 39:44 ↓

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (2012)

196. Dystopian Shorts 25.03.2024 48:49 ↓

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973) VS The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (1909)

195. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 18.03.2024 34:01 ↓

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)

194. Fictional Autobiographies 11.03.2024 59:45 ↓

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (2016) VS The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

193. Women's History Month 04.03.2024 25:55 ↓

Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)

192. Child Authors 26.02.2024 31:37 ↓

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (1976)

191. Corporate Drama 19.02.2024 51:57 ↓

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010) VS DisneyWar by James B. Stewart (2005)

190. Arizona 12.02.2024 50:25 ↓

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1912) VS The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1975)