how to win the lottery: a book club podcast
a book club, like oprah’s if oprah were two suburban guys from new jersey, or reese witherspoon’s if reese were two suburban guys from new jersey, except without the engine of fame that those two huge stars provide. but come on: oprah is not going to answer your emails. (trust us, we know.) every two weeks, a new book microscoped and surgeried by benevolent despot joey lewandowski and disgraced college professor "shreds"... with your help! here's a guarantee: every episode ends with an arrestable crime. will it be something boring like credit card fraud or something sexy like a casino heist? listen to find out.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 145
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
blake butler interview (author of 300,000,000, aannex, void corporation, uxa.gov)
after covering four of his novels — 300,000,000, aannex, void corporation, and uxa.gov — we talk to blake butler about his work. note: there are spoilers in this conversation (at least as much as you…
01:03:21 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
uxa.gov by blake butler
the final book in our blake butler module is uxa.gov, which may be his hardest-to-understand book we’ve covered. we talk about why we thought it would be more approachable, as well as why we should k…
00:43:24 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
void corporation by blake butler
our blake butler module continues with a slight swerve and schedule pivot as we discuss void corporation (formerly titled alice knott). we talk about the text’s new foreword from blake, the approacha…
00:50:21 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
aannex by blake butler
our blake butler module continues with aannex, which apocalypse party describes as “a post-joycean neo-slipstream sci-fi cult dream encyclopedia composed as algorithmic code compiled in-soul.” we tal…
00:43:11 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
300,000,000 by blake butler
we’re kicking off our blake butler module with 300,000,000: a novel that proves there’s still room to push the medium forward. we discuss whether or not this novel qualifies as horror (especially con…
00:55:38 |
Thu 28 Nov 2024
season twelve theme and reading list
we’re dropping another surprise module on you (and on us) with a new format: a deep dive into the work of blake butler. we talk about how the module came about, why shreds has been intimidated by bla…
00:12:17 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
blood meridian by cormac mccarthy
we conclude our first great american novel module with blood meridian by cormac mccarthy and a simple question: what is this novel about? we talk about blood meridian‘s ties to an original american s…
00:52:18 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
moby dick by herman melville
the time has come for us to cover our first great american novel, moby dick by herman melville, which by definition makes it our greatest american novel yet. we talk about the insanity of ahab’s ques…
01:02:34 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
season eleven theme and reading list
we're adding in a brand new type of module here on lotto pod as we continue to get conceptually more difficult. welcome to the first installment of the great american novel module. what is "the great…
00:11:40 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
flee by evan dara
we’re closing out our vermont module with flee by evan dara along with everyone’s favorite segment: vermont facts. we talk about the proverbial canaries in the coal mine of a dying town, grappling wi…
00:38:24 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
radio free vermont by bill mckibben
our vemont module (and shreds’s maple syrup challenge) continues with radio free vermont by bill mckibben. before we talk about the book, joey quizzes shreds on famous vermonters, prompting shreds to…
00:40:20 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
the shame by makenna goodman
we’re kicking off the vermont module in proper with the shame by makenna goodman. does this novel feel like vermont? we discuss. first, though, we (naturally) talk about halloween and halloween costu…
00:35:30 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
season ten theme and reading list
we’re once again embracing our lottery and gambling spirit with the tenth season of the pod. we’ve doubled up sufjan stevens with this one. after shreds recaps what we’re doing — and draws a card — h…
00:11:14 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk
we wrap up our eco module (perhaps our most depressing module yet?) with drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk. we talk about the novel’s unreliable narrator, who is revealed a…
00:47:07 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
stephen markley interview (author of the deluge)
we covered stephen markley’s novel the deluge last week, and today we’re joined by him to talk about his work. after confirming that we have a mutual friend, we learn how stephen pronounces the title…
00:48:46 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
the deluge by stephen markley
we’re winding down our eco module with the deluge by stephen markley: one of our longest books on the pod and arguably our most depressing. we discuss how the narrative reflects a movement toward tot…
01:14:39 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
the man with the compound eyes by wu ming-yi
the eco module is starting to wind down, but it’s not done yet! today we’re talking about the man with the compound eyes by wu ming-yi. after checking in with shreds to make sure he’s h.a.g.s.ing (an…
00:42:44 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
jeff wood interview (author of the glacier)
jeff wood, author of the glacier (which we covered last week), joins the pod to talk about whether or not this book does, in fact, fit into our eco module. we talk about ohio literature, our love of …
01:05:33 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
the glacier by jeff wood
it’s back-to-back books from two dollar radio in the eco module as today’s book is the glacier by jeff wood. after shreds eviscerates joey to begin the podcast proceedings, we talk about two dollar r…
00:40:40 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
square wave by mark da silva
our eco module continues with square wave by mark da silva, a book that we have plenty of thoughts about. after comparing it to giles goat-boy (joey’s least favorite book we’ve covered so far), we ta…
00:49:38 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
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