The Spouter-Inn
A podcast about “great books” that isn’t entirely sure what that phrase means. Hosted by @wordgarbler.bsky.social and @sakbari.bsky.social and available on your podcast app or at megaphonic.fm/spouter/
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- We wrap up the year by looking at a few texts about Jesus. @wordgarbler.bsky.social explores the Gospel According to Mark (and Geoff Ryman's Him and @meakoopa.bsky.social's Dayspring), and @sakbari.bsky.social revisits John Milton's poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. megaphonic.fm/spouter/88
- Let’s start a Read A Play In December Challenge!
- New! @wordgarbler.bsky.social revisits an old favourite with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and @sakbari.bsky.social is excited about Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/87 or on your podcast app.
- Our bonus episodes are back! This time @sakbari.bsky.social spoke with John Nicholas (Munsee-Delaware Nation), whose parents Grey Owl and Little Pigeon wrote Cry of the Ancients back in 1974. Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/86b or on your podcast app.
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- With her 250th birthday just around the corner, we revisit two of Jane Austen's novels: Pride and Prejudice (at last!) and Northanger Abbey. Yes, we also talk about Colin Firth. It's a fun episode! Listen at the link below or on your podcast app.
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- New! @wordgarbler.bsky.social finally reads Wuthering Heights, and @sakbari.bsky.social revisits Laurie Colwin's essay collection Home Cooking. And we admit to a few canonical books that we didn't get on with. Listen on your podcast app or at megaphonic.fm/spouter/85
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- It's a big special birthday episode over at The Spouter-Inn, and we're reading some old favourites. @sakbari.bsky.social revisits the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and @wordgarbler.bsky.social goes back to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Listen at megaphonic.fm/spouter/84 or on your podcast app.
- Chris has been working on a little something…
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- Is it more fun if we give a hint about our upcoming episode? I may have just gotten to the end of the book I’m bringing to the table (spoiler: “the”) and I may be very excited to try to talk about it. (Of course I’m also excited to hear @sakbari.bsky.social talk about one of her favourite poets!)
- Tonight at 7 Eastern! Chris will be solving a series of crossword puzzles by @bewilderingly.bsky.social, each devoted to one of James Joyce's major works (plus one for Virginia Woolf, because why not). Join the fun at twitch.tv/MegaphonicFM (and solve the puzzles first if that's your jam).
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- New episode! @wordgarbler.bsky.social takes a poke at Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and @sakbari.bsky.social pays tribute to the late Edmund White by revisiting his first novel, Forgetting Elena. Listen on your podcast app or at megaphonic.fm/spouter/83
- In our new episode, @sakbari.bsky.social celebrates the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, and @wordgarbler.bsky.social talks about Stanisław Lem's novel Solaris (and more). Also, happy Pride! Listen on your podcast app or at megaphonic.fm/spouter/82
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- NEW! Chris rereads L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Suzanne considers Margareta von Oswald's study Working Through Colonial Collections: An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. So yeah, the tone of the conversation might change halfway through… megaphonic.fm/spouter/81
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- Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Uh, I may be in the middle of a bookshop crawl, and it may be doing no favours to reducing my to-read pile. Oh darn.
- This month we talk about: - William Carlos Williams's book-length poem Paterson (and related works) - Magda Szabó's novel The Door - oddly alluring book covers - reading work from familiar vs. unfamiliar places - and more! Available at all the usual podcast places or at megaphonic.fm/spouter/80
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- Oho! Jared’s novel, which I talked about in our latest episode, has won an award! Much deserved. I’m absolutely mellified for him.
- New episode! @wordgarbler.bsky.social has been rereading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and @sakbari.bsky.social has been rereading The Nine Tailors. They also talk about whether they keep up with the latest novels (and films). (I bet there's one recent and relevant novel that gets discussed...)
- In our latest episode, @sakbari.bsky.social revisits Lee Maracle's Memory Serves: Oratories (a collection of essay-like pieces), and @wordgarbler.bsky.social finally reads Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (the first Sherlock Holmes novel).
- It’s a snow day here, and we’re staying in with some good books. And our next episode drops tomorrow, revisiting Lee Maracle’s Memory Serves and cracking open the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet.
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- And the obligatory cat photo!
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- Now we are six! And for our birthday, we got ourselves a new format — with more than one book an episode. Chris has been reading Emily Wilson's translation of the Iliad, and Suzanne has been revisiting Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Join us as we talk about these books — and many more!
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- We invited @nedraggett.bsky.social (from the delightful Tolkien podcast @bythebywater.bsky.social) over to talk some more about The Return of the King, and how later readers (including JRRT himself, after the book's publication!) have responded to The Lord of the Rings.
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- "Well, this is the end, Sam Gamgee." We talk about J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King in our latest episode. And we try to count how many endings it takes to conclude The Lord of the Rings. Join us at megaphonic.fm/spouter/76 or on your podcast app.
- Do you subscribe to any small presses? Where every so often you get a package with their latest books? If so, I’d love to hear about your experiences (and recommendations)!
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- If you’re just finding out about us and are wondering what to listen to first… maybe our episode on Moby-Dick? Or maybe our longtime listeners have suggestions?
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