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
Episode 186: George Saunders
On today's episode, we welcome one of our favorite authors on the podcast, George Saunders, to discuss his latest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, which takes a close look at seven Russian short s…
00:55:27 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Episode 185: The Best of the Worst Year
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod take on the year 2020 and all its glory and misery. Each of them picks the best thing they read in 2020 for the podcast and the best thing each read on their own... i…
01:15:50 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
Episode 184: A Christmas Story
On today's special holiday episode, Rider, Tod, and Julia discuss the work of storyteller and humorist Jean Shepherd, whose book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash formed the basis for the classic …
00:51:11 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Episode 183: Shel Silverstein
Today, in a special parents only episode, Rider and Julia discuss the works of poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and all-around Renaissance man of children's literature, Shel Silverstein.
This episode is…
00:38:56 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Episode 182: Zero Zone
A massive art installation in the New Mexico desert. A Manson-like cult leader whose followers barricade themselves inside. An artist plagued by guilt, and a lonely teenager with violent intentions. …
00:55:29 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Episode 181: Soap Operas
Today we embrace the melodrama, the secret, the amnesia, the surprise relative, the multiple personality disorder, the rape, the recasting, the coming back from the dead, the love, the murder, and th…
01:03:45 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Episode 180: Comfort Lit
Today, as the election looms in America and tensions run high, Julia, Rider, and Tod talk about what they're reading that is bringing them peace, what's helping them stay calm, or at least distractin…
00:58:38 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
Episode 179: Watership Down
You might remember the 1979 cartoon film adaptation? Or maybe the 1999 Canadian TV series? Or the 2018 British miniseries--or maybe the play or role-playing game? Or maybe you read the original novel…
01:11:45 |
Tue 29 Sep 2020
Episode 178: The Tradition
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod read and discuss Jericho Brown's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Tradition.
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00:49:45 |
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Episode 177: Hojoki
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod read and discuss the essay "Hojoki: or, An Account of My Hut," written in the 13th century by the Japanese poet and essayist Kamo no Chōmei. about his time living in …
00:45:44 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
Episode 176: The End of Middlemarch
Today, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss book six, seven, and eight of George Eliot's Middlemarch, bringing an end to our long and oft-delayed quarantine read of this nineteenth-century masterpiece.
Lear…
00:57:55 |
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Episode 175: Weather
Today, with another short break from Middlemarch, Julia, Rider, and Tod talk about Jenny Offill's latest novel Weather. They also discuss the beauty of the "bidet life" and the adjustment of fearing …
00:51:02 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Episode 174: Middlemarch, Book 5
The return of Literary Disco! Today, we continue our march through Middlemarch as we read the George Eliot classic and book five, The Dead Hand.
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00:34:48 |
Tue 14 Jul 2020
Episode 173: Bookshelf Revisit, Summer 2020
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod do an old-fashion bookshelf revisit where each of them take a volume for their shelves and bring it up for discussion.
Julia's pick: The Stranger in the Woods by Mich…
00:36:06 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Episode 172: Middlemarch, Book 4
This week is part four of our #Quarantine read of George Eliot's long and intimidating classic novel from the nineteenth century, Middlemarch.
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00:30:45 |
Wed 27 May 2020
Choose Your Own Houdini
Today, in another departure from our Middlemarch read, we will read one of the new Choose Your Own Adventure books, which unlike the beloved books from the 80s, the new Choose Your Own Adventure nove…
00:30:22 |
Fri 22 May 2020
Episode 171: Middlemarch, Book 3
This week is part three of our #Quarantine read of George Eliot's long and intimidating classic novel from the nineteenth century, Middlemarch.
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00:40:05 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Quick Poems for Quarantine
On today's episode, as a quick respite from our reading of Middlemarch, Julia, Rider, and Tod each present a poem to discuss. Julia presents "The Mower" by Philip Larkin; Rider presents "No worst, th…
00:35:36 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Episode 169: Middlemarch, Book Two
This week is part two of our #Quarantine read of George Eliot's long and intimidating classic novel from the nineteenth century, Middlemarch.
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00:34:30 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Episode 168: Murder Most Foul
Bob Dylan released something new during the pandemic: Murder Most Foul, a seventeen-minute long song that begins with John F. Kennedy's assassination. This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss the lyr…
00:32:31 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
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