Dear Reader
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEmily and Michael are two old friends who want to know: What have you read lately?
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Episodes
11. W, or The Memory of Childhood / Trust Exercise.
September 04, 2020 17:30 - 53 minutes - 49.8 MBMichael struggles with an unconventional mashup of holocaust memoir and sports-based dystopia in Georges Perec’s W, or The Memory of Childhood, while Emily is captivated by the sexual politics of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise, yet frustrated by its open-ended narrative.
10. The Innocents / French Exit.
November 28, 2019 20:42 - 1 hour - 59 MBMichael is captivated by the brutality and isolation of pre-modern Newfoundland in Michael Crummey's The Innocents, while Emily delights in the “tragedy of manners” and the woes of bored rich people fallen on hard times in Patrick deWitt’s French Exit.
9. My Sister, the Serial Killer / Middlemarch.
October 17, 2019 20:40 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBMichael posits that George Eliot’s Middlemarch (“the most Victorian of Victorian novels”) is the anti-Atlas Shrugged, while Emily considers just how much thicker blood is than water with Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer.
8. Carrying the Fire / City of Girls.
August 26, 2019 18:29 - 45 minutes - 42.5 MBMichael joins his name-twin on the greatest adventure undertaken by humankind and finds him companionable, warm, and wise in Carrying the Fire, while Emily breaks down the walls of the “chick lit” ghetto to revel in City of Girls, a surprising story of feminine sexual liberation.
7. Blindness / Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.
July 13, 2019 20:52 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBEmily strongly recommends an encounter with the disorienting bleakness and collapse of Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s Blindness, while Michael strongly recommends an encounter with the soul-wracking cruelty and violence of Megan Gail Coles’s Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.
6. Newfoundland Portfolio / Convenience Store Woman.
May 31, 2019 22:08 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBMichael reads J.M. Sullivan's Newfoundland Portfolio, and Emily reads Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman.
5. An Artist of the Floating World / The House of the Spirits.
April 30, 2019 23:38 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBMichael picks at the banality of evil protrayed in Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World, while Emily desperately wants to finish Isabel Allende's enchanting work of magical realism, The House of the Spirits, but is prevented from it by living on a windswept rock in the North Atlantic.
4. Kid Gloves / The Thin Place.
March 30, 2019 16:01 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBEmily thinks the world would be a better place if everyone read Lucy Knisley's graphic novel account of her difficult pregnany, Kid Gloves, while Michael rhapsodizes about experiments in empathy and postmodern mysticism spurred on by Kathryn Davis’s The Thin Place.
3. literally show me a healthy person / The Wife.
February 26, 2019 22:23 - 43 minutes - 40.7 MBMichael found the formal experiments and wild content of Darcie Wilder’s literally show me a healthy person to be compelling but not without knots, while Emily enjoys the nuance of Meg Wolitzer’s novel The Wife.
2. The Penelopiad / Circe / The Lonesome Bodybuilder.
February 01, 2019 20:48 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBEmily and Michael talk about The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood), Circe (Madeline Miller), The Lonesome Bodybuilder (Yukiko Motoya), and what books not to bring to the hospital.
1. How to Be Famous / Chrono Trigger.
January 17, 2019 22:21 - 59 minutes - 55.4 MBEmily found Caitlin Moran’s How to Be Famous to be both hilarious and politically necessary. Michael went on a 16-bit nostalgia binge with Michael P. Wilson’s Chrono Trigger.
0. Coming Soon.
January 11, 2019 01:14 - 45 seconds - 2.66 MBComing soon to Megaphonic: Dear Reader. Two old friends want to know: What have you read lately?
Dear Reader Episode Guide.
January 01, 2019 15:51Dear Reader Jan 17, 2019 1. How to Be Famous / Chrono Trigger. Feb 1, 2019 2. The Penelopiad / Circe / The Lonesome Bodybuilder. Feb 26, 2019 3. literally show me a healthy person / The Wife. Mar 30, 2019 4. Kid Gloves / The Thin Place. Apr 30, 2019 5. An Artist of the Floating World / The House of the Spirits. May 31, 2019 6. Ne...