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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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
A Passage to Colonialism
E.M. Forster’s 1924 novel A Passage to India is Jay’s pick this week for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. The nuance and opacity of this unflinching look at interperson...
21 Apr 47min
The Continuing Relevance of LORD OF THE FLIES
Jay kicks off Season 3 of Between the Sheets with William Golding’s 1954 novel about boys stranded on a remote island, and their collective and individual responses to their situation. The novel’s the...
14 Apr 43min
Who is Really the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
In the final episode of Season 2, Jay names Mary Shelley’s 19th century gothic-horror novel FRANKENSTEIN to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, and Chaos Reader checks in ...
10 Feb 47min
