The Rhetorizer: A Book Show

Getting worked up about books. A podcast released every other Friday.

Season 2 on Noir out now!

Season 1: Philip K. Dick

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New season! We are done with Philip K Dick and reading a selection of noir fiction. Get ready for some miscreants, lowlifes, and schemes gone sideways.

First up, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain.

https://t.co/OUPTLs9L14

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SEASON FINALE! Join us as we wrap up our noir season with some noir-themed songs and a discussion of our reading list's highlights and low lights: https://t.co/lMryHMCL32

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Our Crook Manifesto: delivering another episode that's so good, it should be criminal 😏 We return to two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead for the follow-up to Harlem Shuffle. Listen up! https://t.co/TztaS0mNgm

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Instead of "Happy Canada Day", we're throwing out a Happy Birthday to James M. Cain! Catch up on episode 1- 4 about birthday boy's most famous books and following adaptations: The Postman Always Rings Twice + Double Indemnity https://t.co/sWg2BRISMs

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The Talented Mr. Ripley (the novel) has some of the meanest insults ever put on paper. A few of my favourites...

“The sooner he could forget Marc’s stupid, piglike eyes, his massive jaw, his ugly hands with the gaudy rings... the happier he would be.”

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⏰ New epi is out! Meet the many, many, many Tom Ripleys. We return to Patricia Highsmith to celebrate the latest adaptation of Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley on Netflix). Hollywood loves this guy. Do we? Listen and find out! https://t.co/QjXpn6bpZ6

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Literary noir written by a Pulitzer Prize winner? Oh, we fancy. Check out our epi on Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle: https://t.co/jo6kktKppf

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A noir short story written by one of science fiction's greatest bastards? We're in. Listen up: https://t.co/dvtnVvEA91

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Is this noir or is this CSI fanfic inspired by PKD? Listen to our latest about China Miéville's The City and The City! https://t.co/nvfBf34ADk

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CUTTER AND BONE: In Newton Thornburg's overlooked gem of the mid-70s, two aimless losers get involved in a blackmail plot, or maybe a murder plot, or maybe just a paranoid fantasy. Listen up (or down): https://t.co/Y8dem3Chh6

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L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (the movie): neo noir masterpiece or total snooze? Choose your side, choose your weapon, and listen to our latest on Curtis Hanson's critically acclaimed adaptation.
https://t.co/dTdtOHRTR6

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DIG IT: We're gabbing about THE James Ellroy's classic neo-noir L.A. Confidential #bookpodcast #noirfiction
https://t.co/yCqvxFZ4ux

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A shorty but a goody - listen to our latest on Mickey Spillane's short story: "The Lady Says Die." It's all about revenge, baby. https://t.co/oJUdjxTT2f

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New epi: Elliot Chaze's 1953 novel Black Wings Has My Angel. An escaped convict and a woman with a mysterious past concoct the perfect scheme: move to the surburbs! #bookreview #bookpodcast https://t.co/FokVO6m3KL

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Loved our latest on Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train? Listen to our episode on old Al's source material: Patricia Highsmith's debut novel. https://t.co/vPHMWyvata

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Latest epi: Did Strangers on a Train need more tennis 🎾 Alfred Hitchcock thought so. Listen to our takes on his classic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's debut novel. https://t.co/vBYwyCwQep

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It’s Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

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Jacob says we’re entering the “basement of Hell” and no one knows what he’s talking about.

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New season! We are done with Philip K Dick and reading a selection of noir fiction. Get ready for some miscreants, lowlifes, and schemes gone sideways.

First up, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain.

https://t.co/OUPTLs9L14

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It's this.

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For the final episode of our Philip K Dick season, we take a look at the last book PKD ever wrote.

It's a non-scifi literary novel about a radical bishop. It questions belief, meaning, and the value of words vs. sandwiches.

https://t.co/Q8xw8GyU32