Better Read than Dead Podcast

Three jerky socialists talk about books you’ve probably heard of. @tuslersaurus @tjschweiger @katiekrywo

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Happy Bastille Day, comrades. We’re over on the other app.

We’ll still be posting here, but if you’re on it, follow us there, too. Info about our new episodes coming soon!

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Say what you will, but it is now, and always will be, the position of this podcast that Wuthering Heights is the horniest novel of the C19.
https://t.co/DNSXCUmjEV

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Can confirm:

https://t.co/0erM0k9o0B

[priya @lettersofpriya]

it's so wild how the haunting of hill house is such a famous acclaimed horror novel but nobody tells you that it's about LESBIANS. i read it for the first time and i was like oh my god eleanor vance is A Lesbian. i wonder, do most readers know this? do they know she's a lesbian?

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Excellent takedown of massive fraud JD Vance by comrade, friend of the pod, and former guest ⁦@substockman⁩.

Let Us Now Graze Famous Men - by Sebastian Stockman https://t.co/Ztpk7bUsbc

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We’re still here and planning new eps. We’ve just been busy with work/organizing (the means of production won’t seize themselves).

In the meantime, here’s proof of life —Tristan repping his favorite animal. (photo credit @CacactaCarta)

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Happy Bloomsday! Celebrate with our 2019 Ulysses two-parter:

https://t.co/wtqJbhdYCT

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Must-read piece by our comrade @BL_Balthaser, who can be heard discussing Mike Gold in Episode 95!

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We had a great time!

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in case you missed our stream last night and have no life, we've released an audio version of the broadcast as episode 2 of season 4.

fuck the Oscars, long live the pod, free Palestine.

https://t.co/wdluph9ZNZ

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We had a blast!

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thanks so much to @betterreadpod for joining us! we're still streaming live on https://t.co/fx1Hu4lqxi

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Join to hear the Marxist book jerks (us) talk about movies! At least 1/3 of us have seen some!

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Tune in!

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we'll have guest appearances from several past guests, including the folks over at @betterreadpod, @badopinionsman and Mike Opal, and the great @MattPowersESQ accepting an honorary Standie

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Walter Shandy, everyone.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@cremieuxrecueil There are certainly other factors at play, but heavy use of c-sections allows for a larger brain, as brain size has historically been limited by birth canal diameter

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Next on the pod, we'll have Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, with George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin following. And we'll be wrapping up this weirdly extended season in the tradition of Better Melville than Dead -- The Confidence-Man.

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Samuel Delaney describes himself as a "boring old Marxist," which, as boring old Marxist ourselves, we think slaps. But there's nothing boring about Babel-17 (1966). A poet starship captain, a cat-man pilot, and space throuples? Sign us up!

https://t.co/bwVpINshDY

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We're talking linguistic philosophy, the category of the human, and more.

We highly recommend lots and lots of Delaney's work, including his novel Nova and his 1999 critical work/memoir, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue on New York’s porn theaters of the 1960s and 70s.

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Happy bday to the realist one. Blasting our intro music in your honor, comrade.

[Morris Collins @MorrisACollins]

@betterreadpod I kind of feel like the people who read every book as 'horny' should never read a book by Samuel Delaney. I can't wait.

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No new ep today, folks, but next Sunday we'll have Samuel Delaney's fantastic Babel-17 for you. It's recorded, just need to finish editing it!

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🧐 We think you’re reading that book wrong. Here, let us help you out.

https://t.co/teH577327M

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For more on Lewis and his place in the genre, we highly recommend friend of the pod Michael Gamer's Romanticism and the Gothic as well as Angela Wright's chapter on Lewis and Radcliffe in the Cambridge History of the Gothic, Vol. I.

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Happy Halloween 2023, comrades! We have maybe the most batshit novel of the British gothic on offer for you -- Mathew Lewis's The Monk.

Satan turns into a dinosaur at the end. A hot wizard named Matilda dommes the devil himself. Join us for a wild ride!

https://t.co/pv91ataaEj

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As ever with the gothic, we're talking sex, desire, critiques of patriarchy, and how 18th-century Britons were incapable of being even slightly chill and normal about Catholics.