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 167: Middlemarch, Book One
Ever wondered what 900 pages of turgid prose sounds like when dropped on a desk? This week is part one of our #Quarantine read of George Eliot's long and intimidating classic novel from the nineteent…
00:34:55 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
Episode 166: The Baby-Sitters Club
On this special episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod explore the novel that started it all, Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin, answering the question: Where would a now twenty-something be without the m…
00:52:33 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
Episode 165: Coyote and the Shadow People
Today, we discuss a classic of Native American storytelling, a story told by generations of the Nez Perce tribe entitled "Coyote and the Shadow People."
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00:46:00 |
Mon 30 Mar 2020
Episode 164: Gil Thorp
In another short episode for the Pandemic, the Literary Disco trio are tackling another form of writing they've never covered before: the comic strip. Gil Thorp comes from cartoonists Neal Rubin and …
00:16:10 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Episode 163: The Faux Pas
In today's short episode, the Literary Disco trio will tackle a form of writing we have never done before: the YouTube comedy sketch! Today we're watching "The Faux Pas," posted by the comedy duo Bri…
00:21:44 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
Episode 162: Your House Will Pay
On today's episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Steph Cha's 2019 novel Your House Will Pay, a book set in Los Angeles that follows two families on opposite sides of a racially charged shooting. The…
00:47:58 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Episode 161: Literary Disco Is Not Listening
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss a new nonfiction book from Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening, about the fin…
00:56:31 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Episode 160: The Overstory
On this today’s episode, we discuss The Overstory by Richard Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning from 2018 that centers trees in a variety of context as the focus of its storytelling. Can a book about t…
00:52:49 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
Episode 159: The Odyssey of Literary Disco
In our first episode of 2020, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Madeline Miller’s novel Circe, which retells some of the most infamous Greek myths from the point of view of Circe, a witch who most famous…
00:56:49 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Episode 158: Best Books of the Decade
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod look back at the last ten years -- seven of which they've been recording this podcast -- from the books they've read on the show to their own personal favorites. Addi…
01:20:25 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Episode 157: Pale Fire
On this episode, the Literary Disco trio discuss Vladimir Nabokov’s 1962 novel, less popular than Lolita but it is nonetheless complicated, maintains a rabid fan base, and has received a wide variety…
00:55:27 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Episode 156: It's Time to Play Some Games!
This week marks the return of Literary Disco’s classic games! First, Rider presents Judge a Book By Its Cover, where he reads the first lines of a book and Julia and Tod must guess what the book is w…
01:05:38 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
Episode 155: Literary Disco and the Apple, Tree
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod read and discuss a number of essays from a new collection, Apple, Tree: Writers On Their Parents, Edited by Lise Funderburg, the collection presents new essay from tw…
01:11:21 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Episode 154: Literary Disco Visits the Waverly Gallery
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Kenneth Lonergan’s play, The Waverly Gallery, which was first produced in 1999, was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, and in late 2018 had a Broadway re…
00:45:23 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Episode 153: Her Body and Other Parties
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod read the strange, sometimes funny, but mostly disturbing and always feminist debut of short stories by the author Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties. Di…
01:01:59 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
Episode 152: Age of Books
In June, the Washington Post published an article titled “Books for the Ages,” a list of book recommendations based on how old you are, going from year one to 100. This week, each host has read the b…
01:00:57 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Episode 151: Jurassic Park
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod go all the way back in time, to the prehistoric days of November 1990 when a man named Michael Crichton published a little book called Jurassic Park. The book launche…
00:46:23 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
Episode 150: Anthony McCann and Style
On today’s episode, we welcome author Anthony McCann, whose new book is called Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff. It’s an in-depth examination of the occupation of the Malheur Wild…
01:22:54 |
Tue 23 Jul 2019
Episode 149: The Great Gatsby
This week, Literary Disco goes back to high school, or college, to discuss the infamous book that at some point you had to read, were told you should read, or you actually did read — or at least skim…
01:03:45 |
Tue 09 Jul 2019
Episode 148: Outside Articles
It’s been a while since Literary Disco discussed magazine journalism. This week, Julia and Rider take into dive into three different articles that have appeared in Outside magazine over the past five…
00:54:14 |
Tue 25 Jun 2019
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