Literary Disco
Writers talk about reading. Hosted by Tod Goldberg, Julia Pistell, and Rider Strong. Featured in USA Today, Orange County Register, New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Spectator, Vice and countless others.
A Washington Post Best Literary Podcast
A Good Housekeeping Best Literary Podcast
A Mashable Best Books Podcast
A Bustle Best Books Podcast
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 207
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2022
Revisiting George Saunders
On today's episode, we revisit a recent conversation with one favorite authors on the podcast, George Saunders, whose new story collection Liberation Day is out now.
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00:56:51 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Episode 204: Horror
Today, on Literary Disco, we continue our genre-based season. Each episode of this season, we're diving deep into a particular literary genre, exploring what defines it, what makes it work or not wor…
01:43:42 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Episode 203: Crime
Today, we continue our genre-based season where we dive deep into a literary genre exploring what defines it, what makes it work and not work, interviewing authors, talking to fans and scholars, whoe…
01:29:35 |
Wed 20 Jul 2022
Episode 202: Fantasy
Today we launch a new format of the Disco as we begin our "Genre Season."
Each episode of this season, we're going to dive deep into a particular literary genre, exploring what defines it, what makes…
01:05:46 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Sea Tea (Literary Disco Live!)
This is a recording of a live episode from Sea Tea Improv in Hartford, Connecticut, back in March. Julia and Rider are joined by special guests curator Mallory Howard of the Mark Twain House & Museum…
01:30:17 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Episode 201: Where the Hell Have We Been?
Hey, guys! It's been a while. While Julia may have grown a beard, Rider still hasn't cut his hair, and Tod is still up to his old bullshit, we've been still reading books and are ready to start a new…
00:14:12 |
Mon 07 Mar 2022
Episode 200: Reflections on the Disco
It's episode 200. We're going to talk about what's changed over the years, and maybe do a bookshelf revisit. Who knows?! We're getting old.
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01:16:20 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Episode 199: Back to School
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod head back to school with special guest Bree Rolfe, a teacher from Austin, Texas, where she helps high school students discover literature and creative writing. She is…
01:24:05 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Episode 198: Horse Girls
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod tackle the incredibly popular, enduring, and surprisingly diverse world of the horse girl. We have read a classic of the genre, Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite He…
01:08:58 |
Tue 24 Aug 2021
Episode 197: East of Eden
On this episode of Literary Disco, Julia, Rider, and Tod take on John Steinbeck's classic epic novel East of Eden, which centers on the Salinas Valley of California and tells the story of several gen…
01:03:47 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Episode 196: Pool Reads
On this episode of Literary Disco, while Rider's off camping, Tod and Julia talk about their philosophy of pool reads—and why they'll read books at the pool that they'd never be caught reading anywhe…
01:06:20 |
Tue 13 Jul 2021
Episode 195: Arena
On this week's episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod read some poetry -- and discuss Lauren Shapiro's poetry collection, Arena, which was published in 2020 to rave reviews.
Lauren Shapiro is the author of E…
00:54:45 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Episode 194: Alta Magazine
Today, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss three articles from Alta Magazine, the publication based in California that focuses on news, history, literature, and culture, with a decidedly Western bent. Its …
01:02:31 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Episode 193: Being Mortal
On today's episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod talk about all the things human beings never want to talk about: death, pain, sickness, and more, when we discuss Atul Gawande's seminal 2014 book Being Mort…
00:59:35 |
Fri 07 May 2021
Episode 192: The Removed
On today's episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Brandon Hobson's new novel, The Removed, that follows a Cherokee family in Oklahoma in the aftermath of their son's death at the hands of a police of…
00:51:06 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
Episode 191: Spring Games 2021
This week, Julia, Tod, and Rider celebrate Literary Disco’s ninth birthday by breaking out some book games. In Judging a Book by Its Cover, Rider reads the first few lines of a book while Tod and Jul…
01:04:05 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Episode 190: Crime Favorites
This week, Julia, Tod, and Rider talk about their favorite crime reads—and why we're so hooked on the genre, anyway.
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01:05:15 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Episode 189: The Low Desert
This week, Julia, Tod, and Rider go behind the scenes of Tod’s new book, The Low Desert, out now from Counterpoint.
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01:05:16 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
Episode 188: Cruel Summer
On today's special episode, we are live from LumaCon 2021 — a comic convention brought to you by a cohort of public libraries in Sonoma County, California. Today, we discuss the graphic novel Cruel S…
01:37:43 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Episode 187: The Neighbors
Today, for the first time in a while, Julia, Rider, and Tod tackle a single short story. We solicited our listeners via social media for recommendations, and a couple of you directed us to "The Neigh…
00:49:28 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
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