Episodes
We solve the 9/11 ending of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Published 11/20/24
Loved, despised, and maligned, we discuss Fight Club, the book (and movie) that everyone is convinced everyone else misunderstands. Also, Kennedy had a cold while we recorded this and you can hear it. Sorry.
Published 10/09/24
Published 10/09/24
Is the history really secret if you tell Richard Papen about it? Rebecca and Kennedy tackle the Donna Tartt's beloved first novel, The Secret History.
Published 09/24/24
We cover Joan Didion's classic, Play It As It Lays.
Published 08/28/24
Rebecca and Kennedy get mopey and nihilistic with a book about grim, emotionless reality of being....rich? Saddle up for Bret Easton Ellis's debut classic, Less Than Zero.
Published 08/13/24
Kennedy and Rebecca discuss Helen Fielding's hilarious and beloved Bridget Jones's Diary. V.G.
Published 08/05/24
Rebecca and Kennedy re-read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 classic, Americanah. From Nigeria to America and England and back to Nigeria, our hosts discuss the journey from home to home.
Published 07/15/24
This time, Kennedy and Rebecca are talking about Paul Beatty's 2017, Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Sellout.
Published 06/06/24
In this episode, Rebecca and Kennedy have a conversation about Conversation with Friends....the episode is better than this play on words suggests.
Published 05/18/24
Activate your electronic thumb, pack a thermos of Pan-galactic Gargle Blasters, and obviously don't forget your towel. We're discussing the comedy classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Published 04/23/24
Rebecca and Kennedy get out the fire extinguishers for Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.
Published 03/28/24
In this episode Rebecca and Kennedy discuss Octavia E. Butler's speculative fiction novel The Parable of the Sower, set in a chaotic, bleak, and dangerous future in the year....2024? Ah nerts. That's not good.
Published 03/12/24
Kennedy and Rebecca read Gail Honeyman's international bestseller and discover that Eleanor Oliphant is absolutely not fine. She's definitively not okay.
Published 02/23/24
Kennedy and Rebecca fawn over Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award winner, Salvage the Bones in this episode.
Published 02/13/24
We read S.E. Hinton's classic, The Outsiders, considered to be the original YA novel.
Published 01/29/24
Kennedy and Rebecca read Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, one of the best selling books of all time with over 30 million copies sold (according to Wikipedia, anyway).
Published 01/20/24
Kennedy and Rebecca follow Billy Pilgrim as he comes unstuck in time in Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five.
Published 01/18/24
In the inaugural episode, Kennedy and Rebecca discuss John Kennedy Toole's comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
Published 01/18/24