An Express Train to a Closed-Circle Mystery
Jay’s choice this week for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language is another world-famous detective novel, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. While this may not ...
16 Jun 45min
Elementary, My Dear Listener
Jay makes the case for Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles for this week’s addition to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. Holmes is a key figure in Western...
9 Jun 47min
The Genius of Toole’s Ignatius J. Reilly
Jay’s choice this week is John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces, a premier novel of southern American literature and a predictor of the "male loneliness epidemic." Jay talks about how this novel ...
2 Jun 49min
Ellison’s Novel Shouldn’t Be Invisible on Your TBR List
Jay chooses Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man for his list this week. The celebrated novel addresses the Black experience in the first half of the twentieth century in America, but it hasn’t lost its rele...
26 Mai 45min
A Prime Novel of Ms. Muriel Spark's
Muriel Spark’s iconoclastic education novel is Jay’s pick this week for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. Set in 1930s Edinburgh, the novel focuses on six girls who are ...
19 Mai 42min
In a World of Nurse Ratcheds, Be The Chief …?
This week Jay’s entry on the list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language is Ken Kesey’s seminal novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which grapples with the power of systems against ...
12 Mai 49min
A Good Book of Short Stories is Hard to Find
But not this week! Jay names The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, and—spoiler alert!—he LOVES talking about them. Stacey won’t ...
5 Mai 48min
The Jewel of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet
It’s fitting for Jay to follow up last week’s pick of A Passage to India with Paul Scott’s novel The Jewel in the Crown, as this first novel of Scott’s Raj Quartet has definite references to Forster’s...
28 Apr 49min
