Add Us On Weibo – Reading “To Get Rich Is Glorious” by Alexandra Chang - Ep. 7

We have special guest host, Mitch Turck, on again for our seventh episode where we dissect the short story “To Get Rich Is Glorious” by Alexandra Chang. Holly starts us off by looking at the tone of the story, and how the narrator uses her/his distinct voice to add another layer of meaning to the text. Mitch and Tom jump in on how the tone of the story affected their reading of it for the better. The story leads us to discussions about materialism, communism, capitalism and every other fun -ism you can think of. The story has some thematic parallels to Snowpiercer which we make sure to mention (so listen to last episode if you haven’t you bums). A debate arises about what the author wants the reader to get out of the story, and if the story can be classified at all. We end on everyone’s favorite segment—reviewing a review in The Review Review. Stay tuned until the very end of the episode to hear some ASMR by Holly.

Find The Review Review review here: http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/strong-start-new-online-journal

Come back in two weeks to hear us dissect the award-winning film Roma which is now stream-able on Netflix.

Find Mitch and his dope card game at https://mitchturck.com/ and https://gameoforigin.com/

Shout out to Mayo Nice for the intro music.

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