Episodes
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 26: Out in the Garden
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
My thoughts on "Out in the Garden," one of Dick's earliest essays on the broken American family. It will not be his last. A fun fantasy story.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Episode 48: John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown (2)
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Part two of my reading of "To a God Unknown," an underappreciated novel by John Steinbeck. Let me know what you thought of this novel, if any of you have read it.
Friday Aug 25, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 25: The Cosmic Poachers
Friday Aug 25, 2017
Friday Aug 25, 2017
And we are back to looking at Dick's early short stories. In this episode on "The Cosmic Poachers", we get an alien tale with the most banal invasion strategy.
Friday Aug 25, 2017
Episode 47: John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown (1)
Friday Aug 25, 2017
Friday Aug 25, 2017
In this episode we take a look at the quitessential American rural mystic in John Steinbeck's underappreciated To a God Unknown.
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.6: Solar Lottery, Part 6
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
In this final episode on Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery, I take a closer look at some of the themes of the novel and give my final thoughts. Thanks for listening to this series. It has been fun getting into one of Dick's most thematically rich novels.
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.5: Solar Lottery, Part 5
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
In this episode, we finish up with the chapter summaries for Solar Lottery. What will happen to this world when the crisis passes? Dick does not give us easy answers (or really any answers). Like the frontier, the future is unwritten.
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.4: Solar Lottery, Part 4
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
Sunday Aug 20, 2017
I am back from the USA! Thanks for waiting. Here is the next part on Solar Lottery. It is a very action and plot-heavy section, but still has some great Philip K. Dick themes to explore.
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Episode 46: John Steinbeck, Pastures of Heaven (2)
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
In this episode, I look at the second half of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven. Sorry for the delays in publishing these episodes. I am enjoying my summer in Wisconsin. Things will get more regular when I get back to Taiwan.
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.3: Solar Lottery, Part 3
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Part three of Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery.
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book club: Episode 24.2: Solar Lottery, Part 2
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Tuesday Aug 08, 2017
Part two (Chapter 4-6) of Philp K. Dick's Solar Lottery. In a world based on randomness, anything can happen.