About this podcast
Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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Book Spider
About this podcast
Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
Recent episodes
- S4 Ep94: Yesteryear misunderstands and misuses the tools of fiction31 Aug · 1 h 02 min
- S4 Ep95: "The Trial" by Kafka - Find the David Wyllie Translation!23 Aug · 58 min
- S4 Ep93: Michel de Montaigne's Antiquated Essays19 Jul · 57 min
- S4 Ep92: John Updike's Couples is a work of cold, amoral beauty21 Jun · 47 min
- S4 Ep91: Pure and Bureaucratic Horror - Part 3 of Bolanyo's "2666"9 Jun · 1 h 11 min
- S4 Ep90: Ritual Narrative Intermedio this side of the Heart of Darkness; Part 2 of "2666"19 May · 54 min
- S4 Ep89: The Mundanity of True Human Horror: Section 1 of Roberto Bolaño's Opus, "2666"28 Apr · 1 h 04 min
- S4 Ep88: A Journal of the Plague Year: An Interesting Historical Artifact14 Apr · 57 min
- S4 Ep87: The hollowness of surface satisfactions in Latronico's perfectly adequate Perfection5 Apr · 53 min
- S4 Ep86: The Catharsis of Chaotic, Perpetual Suffering in Phil Tippet's "Mad God"23 Mar · 52 min
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