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 127: Killers of the Flower Moon
In the 1920s, a disproportionate amount of people within the Osage nation were dying.
The US government had forcibly relocated the Osage to a section of Oklahoma with some of the largest deposits of …
00:43:10 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Episode 123: Cat Person
(Are we time traveling? Yes, a technical glitch set this episode back a few months…)
Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” appeared in December 2017 issue of The New Yorker, and promptly becam…
01:06:05 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
Episode 126: Columbine, Part 2
We didn’t mean for these episodes to be “timely,” but these days in America, that seems unavoidable.
Between posting our two-parter about Dave Cullen’s Columbine, there has been another school shooti…
00:40:37 |
Mon 21 May 2018
Episode 125: Columbine, Part 1
Dave Cullen’s book Columbine is an exhaustive and brilliant examination of the infamous school shooting that stunned the country in 1999.
It is also one of the first books that Tod, Julia, and Rider …
01:13:45 |
Mon 14 May 2018
Episode 124: Bookshelf Revisit Summer 2018
I know, it’s a bit confusing, but some tech issues with Episode 123 means we’re skipping it for now.
Instead, we zoom to the future! It’s a Bookshelf Revisit episode with a game — a new game Tod is i…
00:52:06 |
Mon 30 Apr 2018
Episode 122: The Idiot
Elif Batuman’s novel was a critical darling of 2017.
We try to figure out why.
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00:38:07 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Episode 121: A Spell for Chameleon
Our fantasy and sci-fi correspondent Will Friedle returns! And he’s picked a doozy for us to read.
Piers Anthony has written dozens of hugely popular fantasy novels, and many of them are set in the m…
00:54:58 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
Episode 120: Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan’s a favorite author here on the Disco.
But does her latest novel, the New York period piece Manhattan Beach, keep up the winning streak?
It made a lot of Best Of 2017 lists, but the Dis…
00:51:56 |
Mon 12 Feb 2018
Episode 119: Lincoln in the Bardo
We did it.
We read the George Saunders book that blew everyone’s mind in 2017.
And then we talked about it.
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00:39:58 |
Mon 29 Jan 2018
Episode 118: Children’s Books
Too often, all we say about children’s books is “awwww.” Not today. Tod, Julia, and Rider dig deep into classics and new books for kids.
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00:48:36 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
Episode 117: Holiday Reading
Happy Holidays!
In honor of the season, the Disco team does a holiday-themed Bookshelf Revisit.
See you in the New Year!
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00:37:22 |
Mon 25 Dec 2017
Episode 116: The Fact of a Body
Time for some non-fiction!
One of the most popular books of 2017, The Fact of A Body is part true crime, part memoir. After a summer spent interning for a law firm in Louisiana, Alexandra Marzona-Les…
00:34:31 |
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Episode 115: My Brilliant Friend
It’s been all the rage at book clubs everywhere.
We read the smash hit Italian novel from Elena Ferrante.
Julia is effusive. Tod is stoked. Rider is…argumentative.
Typical times at the Disco.
Learn …
00:41:30 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
Episode 114: A Fall Bookshelf Revisit
Tod discovers a mysterious set of diaries.
Julia reads about the tech world.
Rider finds out where the sidewalk ends.
It’s time for a Bookshelf Revisit.
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00:32:35 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
Episode 113: Poetry from Listeners Part Two, Spoken Word
We continue discussing listener recommended poetry.
This time, all three poems are performed live, links below.
That’s right, we’re talking spoken word! (Don’t worry, Tod refrains from poet voice.)
G…
00:57:30 |
Mon 02 Oct 2017
Episode 112: Poetry from Listeners Part One
What’s up with contemporary poetry?
We asked you for some good recommendations, and the comments poured in to our Facebook page.
On this episode, we discuss three of your poets (our next episode will…
00:48:42 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
Episode 111: Buried Child
In the wake of his death, we read the Pulitzer Prize winning play Buried Child from playwright, actor, and all around cool cowboy Sam Shepard.
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00:56:05 |
Mon 04 Sep 2017
Episode 110: Summer Reading 2017
Tod, Julia and Rider discuss what they’re reading this summer.
Just in time for the…end of the season.
(We recorded this a few weeks back, but had some technical issues.)
Enjoy!
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00:22:08 |
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Episode 109: Street Gang
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to
Sesame Street.
On this episode of the Disco, we discuss the Michael Davis book, Street Gang, a detailed history of the creation and evolution of the world’s m…
00:56:23 |
Thu 03 Aug 2017
Episode 108: Tower Dogs
Like most people, you probably thought the deadliest job in America had something to do with catching fish.
Well, Douglas Scott Delaney’s here to tell you all about the actual deadliest job in the co…
01:03:09 |
Fri 07 Jul 2017
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