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Book Spider

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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.

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Book Spider

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124 episodes

#Storytelling #Books and Writing #Audioboom #Xi Draconis Books #Society #History #Philosophy #Books #Arts

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S4 Ep64: What is the illusion in The Book of Illusions? 1:06:49

13 days ago1:06:49

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In which the Spiders take on Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, weaving it into a web of textual filmism with prior picks Flicker and Zeroville, while debating and ultimately settling the question of its internal reality.

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S4 Ep65: RIP David Lynch - On "Eraserhead," "Lost Highway," "Inland Empire," and "Catching the Big Fish" 1:08:24

27 days ago1:08:24

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In which we discuss the magical cinematic language of David Lynch, focusing on three of his most challenging movies, and lovingly (I hope) dig at him for his largely blah memoir.

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S4 Ep63: A Storm Painted on a Low Ceiling in Glen Slater's "Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age" 1:07:24

6 weeks ago1:07:24

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In which we discuss the seductive pointlessness of Jungian psycho-mysticism, whether consciousness emerges mechanistically or mysteriously, and our real fears about technology.

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S4 Ep62: Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night: Thematic Complexity, Aesthetic Simplicity 1:16:59

7 weeks ago1:16:59

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In this episode, the devious, uncanny Spiders examine Mother Night, a solid and thought-provoking novel from the oft-overrated Kurt Vonnegut.

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S4 Ep61: Dean Koontz, Robin Cook, and Others: What is Bad Writing? 1:17:07

16 weeks ago1:17:07

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In this episode, the Spiders discuss the novels Watchers and Abduction, by Dean Koontz and Robin Cook respectively, to see what bad writing is all about.

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S4 Ep60: AI, Writing, and Literature (with a bit of film thrown in) 1:13:20

18 weeks ago1:13:20

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In a departure from the general format, the Spiders take on the broader question of the relationship between AI, writing, literature, and other forms of creative arts (especially film). A snapshot of a moment in history, posing questions which will soon be answered or made irrelevant, but pretty interesting in spite of that. Works Cited: Max Read: “Drowning in Slop” (published in New York magazine 9/25/24) Max Read: “People prefer AI art because people prefer bad art” (published via Substack 11/22/24) Kelsey Piper: “There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?” (published on vox.com 9/7/24). Megan Herbst: “Nanowrimo said it was classist and ableist to condemn AI. All hell broke loose.” (published on wired.com 9/4/24).…

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S4 Ep59: Uneven Greatness in Melville's Billy Budd and Piazza Tales 1:00:55

19 weeks ago1:00:55

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In this episode we discuss the lesser known works of Melville, what they say about his style outside of Moby Dick, and how we define greatness.

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S4 Ep58: Apocalyptic Conspiracies: Theodore Roszak's Flicker 1:04:34

22 weeks ago1:04:34

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In this episode, the Book Spider hosts discuss Flicker, a huge novel that delves into the golden age of films and a strange conspiracy involving a Medieval Catholic sect.

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S4 Ep57: Omensetter's Luck and the Demise of Hard Fiction 1:17:55

25 weeks ago1:17:55

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In which the Spiders tackle Omensetter's Luck, a set of prose poem loosely organized by the subjectivity of a mad preacher, which somehow briefly acquired a reputation as one of the most significant novels of the mid 20th century, and is now mostly lost to history.

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S4 Ep56: Somewhat disappointed by, but still finding enchantment in, Mikhail Bulgakov's almost-100-year-old novel: The Master and Margarita 52:26

27 weeks ago52:26

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We revisit one of the earlier podcast subjects and come away a little bit underwhelmed. That said, this is still a magical and strange piece to be nearly a hundred years old, and there are incredible parts.

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S4 Ep55: Sayaka Murata's Earthlings Is One-Dimensional 53:51

33 weeks ago53:51

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In this episode, the Spider hosts discuss the shortcomings of Sayaka Murata's Earthlings.

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S4 Ep54: Pacing and Tragedy in Mary Shelley's The Last Man 1:01:46

35 weeks ago1:01:46

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The Spiders encounter Mary Shelley's The Last Man, in which grief is transfigured into a radically inventive and astonishingly bleak post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel whose impact and legacy are undone by a complete lack of editing.

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S4 Ep53: Gelatinous Eggs and Dead Anti-Worlds: The Mystery of Stanisław Lem's His Master's Voice 1:03:05

36 weeks ago1:03:05

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In this episode, the Spiders discuss the heady and intriguing His Master's Voice, a first-contact novel that turns the trope upside down, to good effect.

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S4 Ep52: Despicability and Empathy in Patrick Barney's Gusano 1:13:51

39 weeks ago1:13:51

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In this episode, the hosts of Book Spider, along with special guest Eddie Kim, discuss the recently released horror novel Gusano, written by founding spider himself, Patrick Barney.

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S4 Ep51: Accepting the mushiness of Jeff Vandermeer's Acceptance 54:27

41 weeks ago54:27