Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Normalcy did not return... But never fear! We're still here! (And we might be coming at you a bit more than usual as we start the year and clear out the backlog from 2025 recordings.) Today, you're hearing our conversation about the Goodreads Most Popular books of 2002: Eragon* by Christopher Paolini, The Lovely Bones* by Alice Sebold, and Kafka on the Shore* by Haruki Murakami. We get into how all straight boys need brothers and mentors, the Missing White Girl Industrial Complex(TM), the dangers of woo-woo spiritualism and "taking space" on community work, and more!
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Subscribe to get our next episode where we will discuss the critics' choice books of the year 2002. We'll be reading The Russian Debutante's Handbook* by Gary Shteyngart, Perma Red* by Debra Magpie Earling, and Caramelo* by Sandra Cisneros.
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Our thanks to Chris Delano for editing support. Music: "MTV (Pop, Britney Spears)" from BigBadBeats.
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