That Book

Sep 15 2024 72 ep. 44 mins 26
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That Book is about those books you've always heard of but have no idea what their deal is. Hosted by Hannah Weaver and Michael Goldsmith, readers with high expectations and low standards.

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Introducing Proust Curious!

Sep 15 2024 16 mins  
We pop back in from the void to tell you about a new project we've been working on: Proust Curious. It's a podcast about the experience of reading Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu – all seven volumes. Hosted by Hannah and Cambridge professor Emma Claussen with Michael producing, it's a fun, deeply-considered dive into one of the most intimidating novels in the cano

TBC: What We Actually Read, 2021!

Dec 27 2021 52 mins  
Our year-end survey. What the hell did we read in 2021??? Books mentioned: Run, Don’t Walk: The Listening House, Mabel Seeley; Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker; Piranesi, Susanna Clarke; Intimacies, Katie Kitamura; Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck; Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee; Thumbs Up: The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz; The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen; To Sleep in a Sea of

RIP Eve Babitz (Rebroadcast: Bicoastal Season, Episode 3)

Dec 18 2021 52 mins  
RIP Eve Babitz. Here's our episode on her from September 2020. Books mentioned: Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days Fast Company, Sex & Rage, L.A. Woman, I Used to Be Charming, Eve Babitz; Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A, Lili Anolik; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West; Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion; Essays, Michel de Montaigne; Par

RIP Anne Rice (Rebroadcast: Season 2, Episode 1)

Dec 12 2021 50 mins  
Re-releasing this episode in tribute to our vampire queen! RIP, Anne. Books mentioned: The Witching Hour and Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice; Dracula by Bram Stoker. Of interest: Amazon reviews, Guardian Q & A, Anne’s Youtube Channel, Anne’s opinion on editors. Email us at [email protected]. Don’t forget to friend us on Goodreads and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and

Ayn Rand Pt. 2 (Pseudonym Season, Episode 6)

Nov 08 2021 55 mins  
In Part 2 of our Rand investigation (our season finale!), we visit Galt’s Gulch and figure out what the deal is with Rand’s magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. What's Ayn Rand’s favorite color??? Go on, guess. Resources: Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (2009) Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009) The

Ayn Rand, Pt. 1 (Pseudonym Season, Episode 5)

Nov 01 2021 69 mins  
In part one of our (first ever!) two-episode investigation, we tackle the surprisingly irrational life of Ayn Rand, the polarizing capitalist whose legal name was Alice O’Connor, and who was born Alissa Zionvievna Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. What. A. Ride. Resources: Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (2009) Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Ran

Stephen King/Richard Bachman (Pseudonym Season, Episode 4)

Oct 25 2021 53 mins  
The man who launched a thousand screams and his alter-ego who launched a thousand "wait, who?"s. It’s Stephen King/Richard Bachman day! Happy scary season, everyone! King books mentioned: On Writing, The Shining, Carrie, Needful Things, Salem’s Lot, Misery. Bachman books mentioned: The Long Walk, The Regulators.

Nancy Drew/The Hardy Boys (Pseudonym Season, Episode 3)

Oct 18 2021 57 mins  
A dive into the hiveminds behind Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. We raise questions like: what do The Hardy Boys eat? Does Nancy = feminism? And what counts as a clue? Resources: Nancy Drew’s Father, The New Yorker, Meghan O’Rourke Rewriting the Past in Children's Literature: The Hardy Boys an Other Series, Robert L. Crawford (academic article) Books mentioned: Franklin W. D

Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr. (Pseudonym Season, Episode 2)

Oct 11 2021 54 mins  
One of the most extraordinary pen name tales. Sci-fi savant James Tiptree Jr. had accolades, admirers and many, many pen pals. Problem was, he didn't exist. James Tiptree Jr. stories discussed in this episode: The Last Flight of Dr. Ain The Women Men Don’t See Books mentioned: James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life o

Stacey Abrams/Selena Montgomery (Pseudonym Season, Episode 1)

Oct 04 2021 44 mins  
Our Pseudonym Season kicks off with a look into political miracle-worker Stacey Abrams' other life as romance author Selena Montgomery. Books Mentioned: Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps. Selena Montgomery, Secrets and Lies; Deception. Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Callista Gingrich, Sweet Land of Liberty. Next week’s James Tiptree Jr. story: The Women Men Don't