Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
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Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
XXXV. Ethics and Aesthetics: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Desperate Readers
44 minutes 33 seconds
1 year ago
XXXV. Ethics and Aesthetics: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
In preparation for the new Yorgos Lanthimos movie, Niko and Tatiana read Poor Things by Alasdair Gray. They discuss Bella Baxter's story, ethics and aesthetics, nineteenth-century medicine, and muse a little on the movie starring Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo.
Desperate Readers
Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.
Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod
and Twitter: @DesperateReads
Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana
Opening music by Seth Thomsen
