To keep listening, subscribe to our free tier on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litsocietypod. How to Survive a Plane Crash: Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashed into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes, and…
Join for free on Patreon to continue listening to our show: https://www.patreon.com/litsocietypod/membership Y’all made us re-read The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Our first read and review, over three years ago, got us ratioed…
To keep listening, subscribe to our free tier on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litsocietypod. On paper, Yinka has it all. She’s Oxford-educated, beautiful, and constantly surrounded by friends and family. Still, one persistent question makes her examine her…
Last week, we saw young Dodo captured and tied to a bed in a sanitorium. He faces imminent danger constantly and can confide in only one friend, a young boy with cerebral palsy who shares…
The last community of Black Americans and Jewish immigrants in a tiny Pennsylvania town must risk their lives and livelihoods to save a deaf child from institutionalization and torture. Will they succeed against a system…
Ellice Littlejohn escaped her dead-end town while healing from her traumatic childhood to earn an Ivy League law degree and become a firm’s only black corporate attorney. But she is full of secrets even her closest friends don’t know. When she arrives at work one morning and finds the married man she’s dating, a man who happens to be her boss, is dead, her secrets are revealed publicly, one by one, to her horror.
We must have Olympic fever because we begin with a brief history of the global games, which, from the beginning, always included swimming. Then, we dive into a small but mighty masterpiece by Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers. This is a book about routine. Comforting routine and unmindful routine. It is about what happens to us when we lose our routines. It is about who we are within the groups we form and who we are as individuals. It may also be about disruption and death. Judge for yourself.
A man’s enemies will be persons of his own household. In one of the most tragic classics, we are forced to stare unflinchingly into a household descending into madness and chaos.
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect..” The most kafkaesque book we’ve ever read is about isolation, capitalism, and the meaning of…
One family’s matriarch does all she can to honor her late husband’s memory, save her son from despair, and support the dreams of her daughter — Is there hope for them, a family who the world is against, a family who already feels death inside the walls of their dwelling?
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