Do You Even Lit?
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Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars
For our big summer read we're cracking into Middlemarch, the 1871 doorstopper written by Mary Ann Evans under her pen name George Eliot. This chat covers the first 30 chapters. Not a whole lot has…
Raymond Carver: Cathedrals even for those without eyes to see
Raymond Carver's Cathedral might be one of the most simple and beloved American short stories, but Benny is determined to overthink it anyway. On meta-deception: before we dive in, Benny obsesses…
Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'
Ursula K. Le Guin's 1973 story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas has been discussed to death, but the boys have finally cracked the ONE TRUE reading. huddle in Rich remembered this being a glorified…
American Pastoral, part 2: The Indigenous American Berserk
Wrapping up our discussion of Philip Roth's American Pastoral, in which the Swede is finally reunited with his missing daughter. it's bleak. On losing your daughter: Can you save people from…
American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic
The Swede was the poster boy for the American dream. Football star. Marine. Marries a beauty queen. Inherits dad's glove factory and treats the workers like family. Buys the stone farmhouse in Old…
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Thank God for Incognito Mode
Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde really gets the juices flowing. Rich tells on himself big time, we find out we're all faking our authentic selves, and…
Atomised, part 2: Sympathy for the Incel
IMMORTAL ASEXUAL CLONES: YES NO? Did aella's birthday gangbang generate positive externalities? Why is Cam's fridge full of dead chickens? These are the big questions of our age and we are the only…
Was the sexual revolution a mistake? (Houellebecq's Atomised, part 1)
Houellebecq's 1998 novel Atomised (also known as The Elementary Particles) is prophetic, provocative and absolutely filthy. This chat covers the first ~200 pages: On the sexual revolution: Are…
Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book?
This week's between-novel quick read is Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: A Chess Story, written in 1941, immediately before Zweig obliterated his map. We argue over the perfect answer to the 'desert…
Moby Dick finale: Ahab Derangement Syndrome
Tell me if you've heard this one: A mentally unstable old man abuses his position of power to pursue his own personal agenda. He alternates between smooth talking—tremendous moxie, the best…
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: Look how they massacred my boy
Quick film review before we get back to the final part of Moby Dick. Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited Frankenstein adaptation is absolutely cleaning up in the Oscar nominations, including a nod for…
Moby Dick, part 2: A conceptual analysis of Whiteness
We continue our voyage with chapters 40-80 of Herman Melville's leviathan MOBY DICK. Talking nihilism and meaning-making, the deeper significance of making the whale white (seriously), the terrifying…
Moby Dick, part 1: My name is Ishmael and my special interest is whales
Starting the year off right by signing on for an epic voyage with Herman Melville's MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE, published in 1851, and widely considered to be the great American novel. It's quite the…
Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF
Yeah fuck this book. After much blood, sweat, tears, and other unspeakable bodily excretions, we've had enough. This is our first ever DNF after 50+ titles, so we thought we should do a postmortem of…
DYEL wrapped: Most beloved and hated books of 2025
Some festive chit-chat and navel gazing on the year that was. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) big tiddy goth gfs and rival podcast recs (00:10:09) DYEL wrapped stats analysis (00:19:39) Third best book…
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: It's not rocket science
We've been making eyes at the postmodernists for a while, but up until this point have lacked the stones to go take a ride on daddy Pynchon's rocket ship. Now that we have a little experience we…
Murakami's Norwegian Wood: the sadboi and his manic pixie dream girls
In 1987, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami set himself a challenge: to set aside his magical realism schtick and try to write one 'straight' novel in the realist tradition. The result was Norwegian…
A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce on the difference between tasteful nudes and porn
This week we're reading James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916. Moments of adolescent significance: on heated dinner-time conversations,…
C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
This week we're discussing C.P. Snow's influential 1959 lecture 'The Two Cultures', on the growing division between literary and scientific intellectuals: "So the great edifice of modern physics goes…
Butcher's Crossing: John Williams's rougher cut
Back to the novels. This week, the DYEL boys decide to try Butcher's Crossing, the first novel from John Williams, the author famous for writing the…
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