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 84: Judge a Book By Its Cover
A long-lost episode finally appears! Rider tries to trick Tod & Julia with a classic game of ours. You should be able to guess at least one of these: play along!
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00:32:39 |
Mon 21 Sep 2015
Episode 85: Live from the Last Bookstore
After a brief hiatus, we’re back and we’re live! This episode has it all: nudity, cursing, Ayn Rand. Have fun and laugh along like you were there. (Episode 84 will come out next– we’re nonconformists…
01:15:02 |
Wed 26 Aug 2015
Episode 83: Animorphs: The Invasion
You asked for it. We don’t know why, but you did.
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00:53:00 |
Thu 23 Jul 2015
Episode 82: Summer Reading
Vacation is upon us and our book lists are piling up! As Rider enjoys his vacation, what will Julia & Tod be reading next?
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00:36:29 |
Tue 07 Jul 2015
Episode 81: Tigerman
It’s officially summer, which means we too are officially given over to Marvel and DC madness. Now that our lives are all superheroes all the time (or so it seems in the movie theaters), we discuss o…
01:04:56 |
Fri 26 Jun 2015
Episode 80: The Empathy Exams
After a long and beautiful vacation, we’re back! And we’re busy discussing one of the year’s breakout nonfiction books, The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison. But not before we do a bookshelf roulette …
01:13:12 |
Wed 03 Jun 2015
Episode 79: Shackleton’s Journey
This week we read William Grill’s Shackleton’s Journey, an illustrated book for children that covers a famous expedition to Antarctica that began in 1914.
It’s an interesting intersection of cold fac…
01:05:51 |
Mon 04 May 2015
Episode 78: Nancy Drew
We finally take on the young detective Nancy Drew with her first adventure, The Secret of the Old Clock
Much like our Hardy Boys episode, there is some confusion about the setting (less wig shops thi…
01:18:51 |
Mon 20 Apr 2015
Episode 77: Jill Alexander Essbaum & Interrobang
We are joined this week by rising superstar Jill Alexander Essbaum (author of New York Times bestseller “Hausfrau”). Just in time for Easter, we discuss sexy religious poetry, her book, and a poetry …
01:15:16 |
Mon 06 Apr 2015
Episode 76: Story Songs 2 (The Reckoning)
Here we go again. No genre, subject, or style is as hotly debated as Story Songs. At least there’s no baseball this time.
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01:10:13 |
Wed 25 Mar 2015
Episode 75: Wolf in White Van
An incident with a gun. A disfigured game designer. His play-by-mail roleplaying game. A death. A lawsuit.
That’s all we’ll give away in an attempt not to spoil the strange and beautiful new novel th…
01:00:18 |
Tue 10 Mar 2015
Episode 74: My Dad, the Pornographer
We couldn’t resist discussing an incredible essay by Chris Offutt that appeared in The New York Times Magazine. It’s entitled My Dad, The Pornographer. You can guess what it’s about.
To give us some …
01:05:51 |
Tue 24 Feb 2015
Episode 73: Galapagos
Today we examine whether or not every work by a master is a masterpiece. There may be some yelling.
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00:59:39 |
Fri 13 Feb 2015
Episode 72: Reeling Through Life
How do movies affect us? How can we best write about them? Do we think in movie narratives now? What are the best books about movies? The gang tackles these pertinent questions while zipping through …
01:02:53 |
Tue 27 Jan 2015
Episode 71: Dept. Of Speculation
We start off the year with a book that was hailed as one of the best of 2014: Jenny Offill’s The Department of Speculation. What’s the line between beautiful and pretentious, we ask? Plus, a revisit …
00:53:04 |
Mon 12 Jan 2015
Best of 2014
2014 is coming to a close, and we take a moment to answer life’s big questions: what was the best thing we read for the podcast this year? What was the best thing we read outside of it? Have Julia & …
01:12:57 |
Mon 29 Dec 2014
Episode 69: Neil Patrick Harris’ Choose Your Own Autobiography
You will probably be given this book for Christmas, so let us pre-judge it for you!
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01:11:11 |
Wed 17 Dec 2014
Episode 68: Truman Capote’s Holiday Stories
Can the man who wrote “In Cold Blood” deliver a warm-blooded holiday tale? What are Julia, Tod, and Rider thankful for this year? Is it possible to cheat at “Judging a Book By Its Cover”? These quest…
01:04:18 |
Tue 02 Dec 2014
Episode 67: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
This week, at your request, dear listeners, we take on one of the silliest, most lovable books in the known universe. We discuss the difference between satire and parody, South Park, and a rare unani…
01:05:47 |
Mon 17 Nov 2014
Episode 66: Gabriel
Get out the tissues.
This episode, we head straight for emotional jugular, as we read Edward Hirsch’s devastating poem about the life and death of his son, Gabriel.
Hirsch may make us cry (and yes, t…
01:02:52 |
Mon 03 Nov 2014
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