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 147: Summer Reading 2019
This week, Rider and Tod take turns talking about their summer reading: what they’re reading, what they’re planning to read, and what they think you should read. Some of the books include Anthony McC…
00:59:15 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Episode 146: The Man They Wanted Me To Be
This week on Literary Disco, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss The Man They Wanted Me To Be, the new book out from Jared Yates Sexton about masculinity in America and masculinity in his own life. Before …
00:59:33 |
Tue 28 May 2019
Episode 145: Live Oak, with Moss
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod welcome their old friend Hugh Ryan to the Disco. He is the author When Brooklyn Was Queer, a look at the borough’s LGBTQ history. The trio discusses the history behin…
00:57:04 |
Tue 14 May 2019
Episode 144: The Call of the Wild
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod get wild as they discuss Jack London’s classic portrait of the unforgiving and brutal life of being a dog in the Klondike Gold Rush. Additionally, the trio discusses …
01:04:58 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Episode 143: Sense and Sensibility
Today we head back to a classic of English literature as Julia, Rider, and Tod read and discuss one of Jane Austen’s enduring novels of manners and marriage, Sense and Sensibility. Tod and Rider also…
00:55:55 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Episode 142: Heart Berries
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Terese Marie Mailhot‘s short and powerful memoir, Heart Berries. In the sledgehammer of a book, Mailhot addresses the traumas she has gone through in her life…
00:44:25 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
Episode 141: The Girl from the Black Lagoon
This week, the Literary Disco trio sit down with Mallory O’Meara to discuss her new book, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick, the true story o…
01:01:20 |
Thu 21 Mar 2019
Episode 140: The Last Samurai
This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Helen Dewitt’s novel The Last Samurai, which, they are compelled to point out, has nothing to do with the horrible Tom Cruise movie of the same name. Recently…
00:51:28 |
Tue 05 Mar 2019
Episode 139: Children of the Disco
On this week's episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss what each of them are reading to Literary Disco’s second generation, from Frog and Toad to The Rainbow Goblins and Barnyard Dance! Also, the thre…
01:25:05 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019
Episode 138: Let the Games Begin
No better way to start the new month than with some of Literary Disco’s classic book games. First, Rider presents “Judge a Book By Its Cover,” where he reads the first lines of a book and Julia and T…
00:44:18 |
Tue 05 Feb 2019
Episode 137: There, There
The debut novel from Tommy Orange has been on almost every Best Of 2018 list, but does the Literary Disco trio agree? In this week's episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss the complex and multifacete…
00:53:07 |
Tue 22 Jan 2019
Episode 136: Tarzan of the Apes
Welcome to a new year, with your favorite literary podcast. We start 2019 with the classic tale of Tarzan.
We all know the story: after the death of his parents a boy is raised by apes, and encoun…
00:48:27 |
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Episode 135: On Sabrina, Men in Underpants, and Bruce Springsteen
Nick Drnaso's Sabrina is the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize. It's also a beautiful and heartbreaking rendering of the current American psyche and a pointed commentary on…
00:41:19 |
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Episode 134: The Books We Loved in 2018
The last book club you’ll ever need. This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss the best books they read in 2018, including Tara Westover’s Educated, Arthur Krystal’s This Thing We Call Literature, and…
00:53:36 |
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Episode 133: Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
It’s the holidays! A time to deck the halls, grab some eggnog, and curl up with the SCARIEST book you can find…
That’s right. Christmas horror. It’s a real thing. And Blumhouse and editor Christopher…
00:52:03 |
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Episode 132: Vulture's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A couple months ago, Vulture published this crazy, crazy list.
It’s an admittedly premature attempt to create a literary canon for the last 18 years.
In this episode of Literary Disco, we discuss th…
00:49:26 |
Mon 05 Nov 2018
Episode 131: Fall Revisit
It’s getting cooler, the leaves are changing, time to curl up with a good book.
It’s our Bookshelf Revisit for Fall 2018, an eclectic conversation that covers:
Wild children and cults.WWII and China.…
00:38:43 |
Tue 23 Oct 2018
Episode 130: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson became a legend the moment he published this novel of a drug-fueled trip into the desert. Packed with mind-altering chemicals, extreme paranoia, and claiming to be a scathing journ…
00:50:12 |
Tue 25 Sep 2018
Episode 129: Lord of the Flies
You read it in high school.
You remember the conch, Piggy, and a boar head on a stick…
But do you remember the Beast? That a child disappears the first day on the island? How about the fact that this…
00:55:27 |
Mon 13 Aug 2018
Episode 128: Gregory Pardlo’s Digest
Today we dive deep into a single poetry collection: Digest, by Gregory Pardlo.
Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer, and with good reason. This is one of the most universally loved books we’ve had on the sho…
00:45:59 |
Mon 23 Jul 2018
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