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Book Spider
Xi Draconis Books
129 episodes
12 hours ago
Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. 

Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. 

Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
Show more...
Books
Arts,
Society & Culture,
Philosophy,
History
Episodes (20/129)
Book Spider
S4 Ep76: On Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and the Polanski and Cohen Film Treatments
12 hours ago
1 hour 10 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep75: Post Office, Charles Bukowski's Terrible Debut Novel
3 weeks ago
1 hour

Book Spider
S4 Ep74: Unworld and the problem of literary science-fiction
1 month ago
58 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep73: Comedic Tones and Tragic Times in Otessa Moshfegh's "Lapvona"
1 month ago
1 hour 1 minute

Book Spider
S4 Ep72: Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf: A Perfect Novel
3 months ago
54 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep71: In Ascension and the perils of a needless re-reading
3 months ago
57 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep70: Beautiful Emptiness in Samantha Harvey's "Orbital"
3 months ago
44 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep69: Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom
3 months ago
57 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep68: How Bruce Wagner's brave and lazy The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories suffered and benefited from the culture wars
4 months ago
56 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep67: The Fun but Empty Calories of Danielewski's House of Leaves
5 months ago
50 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep66: Are Aesthetic Properties Real? (With a Discussion of the Film LFO)
5 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep65: What is the illusion in The Book of Illusions?
6 months ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep64: RIP David Lynch - On "Eraserhead," "Lost Highway," "Inland Empire," and "Catching the Big Fish"
7 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep63: A Storm Painted on a Low Ceiling in Glen Slater's "Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age"
7 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep62: Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night: Thematic Complexity, Aesthetic Simplicity
7 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep61: Dean Koontz, Robin Cook, and Others: What is Bad Writing?
10 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep60: AI, Writing, and Literature (with a bit of film thrown in)
10 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep59: Uneven Greatness in Melville's Billy Budd and Piazza Tales
10 months ago
1 hour

Book Spider
S4 Ep58: Apocalyptic Conspiracies: Theodore Roszak's Flicker
11 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes

Book Spider
S4 Ep57: Omensetter's Luck and the Demise of Hard Fiction
1 year ago
1 hour 17 minutes

Book Spider
Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. 

Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.