“Our Brains Are All Chris Hemsworths” ITF Read & Watch: Spiderhead (2010 story & 2022 film)

George Saunders’s short story, “Escape from Spiderhead," was a tragicomic success worthy of The New Yorker, but did it successfully make the leap to film? In episode 232, Luke & James discuss director Joseph Kasinskis’s big month, George Saunders's literary lineage, why we all have a little Chris Hemsworth in our brains, and finally cast their vote on which was better: the book or the movie!

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References

• “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders