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The Gamecool Books podcast turns to The Amber Spyglass, the concluding volume in His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. Long-form discussions of the intertextual goodness branching out from the book in all directions, and of the depiction of consciousness at its heart, will be posted on a weekly-or-so basis, along with conversations with other fans and scholars. This page will also be updated with recommended additional reading to accompany our deep dive into Pullman's work. I welcome any questions or comments. Enjoy! 

This episode covers Ch 1 The Enchanted Sleeper and Ch 2 Balthamos and Baruch. 

Recommended Reading: 

Blake, America A Prophecy 

Rilke, The Third Elegy 

Ashbery, The Ecclesiast 

Blake, The Little Girl Lost 

Job 4 

"The Man Who Walked with God: Philip Pullman's Metatron, the Biblical Enoch, and the Apocrypha," John Haydn Baker. In Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Barfield and Cox ed.