Episode 15: Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all: a lesson pressed upon your Book Fight podcasters by their mothers, and summarily ignored. That’s right, fans. In this one we’re...
View ArticleEpisode 47: John Updike, Rabbit, Run
A jam-packed episode this week. We talk about the first of John Updike’s Rabbit series, in particular its portrayal of sex and the Male Pre-Middle-Life Crisis. Harry Angstrom is a 26-year-old former...
View ArticleEpisode 143: Summer of Second Chances, Sheila Heti (“My Life Is a Joke”)
Way back in Episode 15, we talked about Sheila Heti’s novel How Should a Person Be, a book we were both pretty harsh on. This week we’re giving Heti a second chance (not that she needs one from us; she...
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