Our Lovable Novels Guide to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jay and Stacey discuss the comedy-sci-fi twentieth-century classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, chatting about the first novel in the franchise, which is the gateway-drug to ...
26 Mar 202539min
Big Feelings in a Small British Town in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Jay and Stacey discuss a novel dear to both of their hearts, George Eliot's Middlemarch, where marriage, aspiration, ambition and social class shape the lives of characters in a small English communit...
18 Mar 202546min
Grandeur, Nostalgia and Family Drama in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Even posh Brits have family problems, and Evelyn Waugh's exploration of the aristocratic Flyte family through the perspective of upwardly-mobile Charles Ryder touches on the allure of a bygone era, re...
11 Mar 202539min
Going Gothic in the Haunting Novel The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters' novel The Little Stranger is a surprise addition to the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language list, but after this discussion of how this gothic novel illuminates 20th century ...
4 Mar 202541min
Colson Whitehead's Beautifully Written Tragedy: The Nickel Boys
Jay and Stacey discuss Colson Whitehead's masterpiece, The Nickel Boys, and how the exploration of a great American tragedy can still produce a lovable novel. And chaos reader weighs in, too.
25 Feb 202531min
The Truth of Fiction in All the King's Men
Jay and Stacey explore Robert Penn Warren's ALL THE KING'S MEN in this week's entry in Jay's list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. This 80-year-old American political novel is a...
18 Feb 202531min
Sisterhood trumps Patriarchy in The Color Purple
Alice Walker's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Color Purple is one of those Big Deal books, but what makes this story of the degradation and the triumph of two sisters in the American South lovable t...
11 Feb 202534min
So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time. He survives the firebombing of Dresden and goes to the planet Tralfamador. But don't worry: Death is only in your imagination. #SlaughterhouseFive #KurtVonnegut #Book...
4 Feb 202532min
