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 107: Three Day Road
Three Day Road is an award-winning Canadian novel centered on First Nation characters. It’s been heralded for celebrating forgotten heroes: natives who fought for Canada during World War I.
But recen…
00:57:08 |
Tue 20 Jun 2017
Episode 106: Norse Mythology
Forget what you think you know about Thor and Loki, and join the Disco trio to talk about Neil Gaiman’s latest: a retelling of Norse Mythology.
Tod is bored, Rider rants, and Julia keeps her cool as …
00:51:52 |
Mon 22 May 2017
Episode 105: Brat Pack America
After some technical difficulties (uh, Tod) we now have another Lost Episode. Goodbye, 104, we barely knew ya.
So we’re jumping right to 105, in which, for the first time besides our live shows, the …
00:53:19 |
Mon 08 May 2017
Episode 103: 1984
You read it in high school. Or college. It was that “important” book about the dangers of authoritarianism.
An interesting, alternative future. A distant possibility.
Maybe not anymore?
The Disco tri…
01:05:56 |
Tue 14 Mar 2017
Episode 102: Kindred (The Graphic Novel)
Just like you, we’re on an Octavia Butler kick since reading Dawn. This episode, we check out the brand-new graphic novel adaptation of Butler’s masterpiece Kindred.
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00:33:59 |
Tue 14 Feb 2017
Episode 101: Q&A
Tod, Julia and Rider answer questions from listeners.
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00:50:09 |
Thu 26 Jan 2017
Episode 100!
Back from a long absence, we explain where we were, what we were doing, and what you should have been reading all along.
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01:09:06 |
Sat 24 Dec 2016
Episode 99: Summer Reading 2016
It’s that time again.
Tod and Julia discuss summer reading…and introduce a contest for Episode 100.
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00:51:09 |
Wed 27 Jul 2016
Episode 98: Games Games Games
Back by popular demand — games!
As we near the big 100, we take some time to play a few Literary Disco classics.
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00:49:35 |
Mon 20 Jun 2016
Episode 97: Dawn
This episode, we enter the compelling world of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn, the first in her Xenogenesis series.
That’s right, we’re going full sci-fi. Post-apocalypse, aliens, tentacles and even…inters…
00:56:58 |
Wed 25 May 2016
Episode 96: Why We Write About Ourselves
For the first time on the Disco, we discuss a book on the craft of writing. We delve into a new collection of essays by some of the world’s great memoirists.
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memo…
00:52:02 |
Thu 07 Apr 2016
Episode 95: Pictures from a Revolution
This month we read a nonfiction classic about the movies that changed Hollywood– hear us battle it out between Dr. Dolittle and Bonnie & Clyde. Oscar season is over but we’re not done talking about i…
00:57:44 |
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Episode 94: The Real Muslims of Irving, Texas
This episode we discuss an essay by Colby Buzzell appearing in the March Issue of Esquire, available here.
Buzzell offers a look at the life of American Muslims and the armed protestors who regularly…
00:59:29 |
Sat 27 Feb 2016
Episode 93: Best of 2015
Just in time for the end of the year…
Oh, wait.
Super late, we have our annual “best of” conversation for 2015!
We cover our favorite books, and then, as is Literary Disco tradition, we digress into …
01:29:15 |
Wed 03 Feb 2016
Episode 92: A Christmas Romance (Novel)
Happy holidays! For this winter season, we got you an extra episode (to make up for our many delays this year– we blame Rider’s cute baby and Julia’s incredible myriad of technical issues). We got yo…
00:53:27 |
Tue 22 Dec 2015
Episode 91: George & Lumberjanes
We continue our discussion with New York Public librarian Gwen, who recommended two books for us to read and discuss.
Both are aimed at a younger audience but with an eye to gender and identity.
Geor…
00:53:41 |
Thu 17 Dec 2015
Episode 90: New York Public Library
In this first half of two-part special (we’re crazy like that), we meet someone with the coolest job in the world: a recommendations editor at the New York Public Library.
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00:30:29 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
Episode 88: Justine
Justine, the first book of the legendary Alexandria Quartet, gets the disco treatment.
This novel was published in 1957 and has attracted devotees ever since. Told from the perspective of an unnamed …
01:01:19 |
Tue 10 Nov 2015
Episode 87: Revisitish
We catch up from a long break. Some books, some travel, some major humiliation.
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00:54:23 |
Wed 21 Oct 2015
Episode 86: A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
This posthumous collection is getting so much praise lately– does it live up to the hype?
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00:41:34 |
Mon 05 Oct 2015
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