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 65: The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum & Special Guest Stephen Graham Jones!
What’s really scary? Zombies, ghosts, vampires– or bizarre novels about torture based on true events?
For this year’s Halloween episode, we welcome our expert in horror, Stephen Graham Jones. We be…
01:11:21 |
Wed 22 Oct 2014
Episode 64: Excavation
When she was 13, Wendy C. Ortiz started “dating” her 28 year-old English teacher. In her new memoir, Excavation, she returns to the years she spent maintaining this secret relationship.
It’s a disarm…
01:19:13 |
Thu 09 Oct 2014
Episode 63: Tinkers
A Pulitzer Prize winner none of us had read, Tinkers is a short, innovative, and compelling novel, first released in 2009.
Join us as we discuss death vigils, hermits, epilepsy, and depressed mother…
01:14:57 |
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Episode 62: Summer Special Aboard the Charles W. Morgan
Ahoy!
For this very special episode, Tod & Julia talk about her trip aboard the Charles W. Morgan, Moby-Dick, and the difference between boats and ships. Followed by a piece Julia wrote aboard the Mo…
00:44:00 |
Thu 11 Sep 2014
Episode 61: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Summer’s over and it’s time to get serious– grab a raft and float down a river while listening to us take on the Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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01:27:45 |
Sun 24 Aug 2014
Episode 60: Twice Upon a Time
This week the Disco Trio heads to their tablets and phones.
The Atavist publishes digital essays, articles and books. One of their latest, most experimental pieces was written by Hari Kunzru. Twice U…
01:13:21 |
Tue 05 Aug 2014
Episode 59: Pancakes!
Breece D’J Pancake died in 1979 at the age of 26, but not before writing some legendary short stories. In this episode, we read his collected work and discuss the rural landscape he explored.
But fi…
00:55:13 |
Thu 24 Jul 2014
Episode 58: Submergence
This week we take on a smart book. Maybe too smart.
Rider first stumbled upon Submergence by JM Ledgard when it was given as an example of complex grown up literature within an article about the popu…
01:06:56 |
Tue 08 Jul 2014
Episode 57: Cathedral of Nervous Horses
It’s time for more poetry.
And much to Tod’s chagrin, the words “Mother” and “Father” appear a lot in this collection.
Undeniably, however, the poems of W.E. Butts collected in The Cathedral of Nerv…
01:03:33 |
Wed 25 Jun 2014
Episode 56: Shirley Jackson
Before there was the Hunger Games, there was the Lottery. And not the fun kind.
This week, we take on a newly published Shirley Jackson story and mix in a revisit to her classic short story “The Lott…
01:00:34 |
Tue 10 Jun 2014
Episode 55: The Stranger
It’s back to school for the Disco, when writer and real life high school English teacher Heather Partington joins us.
We asked Heather to treat us like a class: reading assignment, quiz, discussion.…
01:02:01 |
Tue 20 May 2014
Episode 54: The Free
This week we discuss the novel “The Free” by Willy Vlautin. Plus, we do a good old-fashioned “what are you reading right now” revisit. A classic night at the Disco!
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01:01:31 |
Tue 06 May 2014
Episode 53: Choose Your Own Adventure!
You are on the web, trying find something to listen to.
You see a link to the latest Literary Disco episode, a podcast you love. You click on it.
Now you are on the Literary Disco site, and there’s a…
01:09:29 |
Wed 16 Apr 2014
Episode 52: Black Hole
Beautiful women with tails, peeling out of your own skin, bad acid trips, cat-faced kids…we must be discussing the graphic novel Black Hole by Charles Burns.
This chilling book set in the Seattle are…
00:50:53 |
Wed 02 Apr 2014
Episode 51: Five Days at Memorial
For this episode, the Disco goes back in time to 2005 for a harrowing glimpse at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial. Incredibly well researched and nuanced, Fi…
00:52:07 |
Tue 18 Mar 2014
Episode 50: Q&A
After some scheduling and vomiting drama (we’ll explain), we offer up this special 50th episode of wall to wall listener questions.
In two weeks, we’ll return with — finally — a discussion of 5 Days …
00:57:26 |
Tue 04 Mar 2014
Episode 49: Olympic Fever!
Place your hand over your heart and jump onto a podium because we’ve got Olympic fever over here. We take on the two most important sports in American history: bowling and football.
This month, firs…
01:04:40 |
Wed 19 Feb 2014
Episode 48: Anything That Moves
Food, glorious food!
This episode takes on Dana Goodyear’s examination of the wild and crazy world of foodies and the things they eat, cook, buy, and sell: Anything That Moves. Which begs valuable qu…
01:01:41 |
Tue 04 Feb 2014
Episode 47: Mistborn
Today we welcome the first appearance of the disco’s official Fantasy Correspondent, Will Friedle.
As a voracious reader of the genre, the trio asked Will to pick one of his favorite fantasy novels, …
01:03:04 |
Tue 21 Jan 2014
Episode 46: Best American Short Stories 2013
In this episode, Tod selects three short stories from the latest Best American collection.
First up is Alice Munro’s “Trains,” a poignant and surprisingly epic story of a soldier post-WWII. Then Suza…
01:07:42 |
Tue 07 Jan 2014
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