The boyos boat away to the Summer Country after finishing the Chronicles of Prydain! How do they feel? Will they make connections to Lord of the Rings? Find out! 31:36 A Literary Game 44:30 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
SUSPENSE! One of the boyos tries to murder the other with BUTTER! How will they escape this situation?! Also, they discuss the penultimate book in The Chronicles of Prydain or whatever. 43:21 A Literary Game 50:44 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
A nation tearing itself apart? Revolution in the streets? Only in the pages of comics! The boyos pick up Coates’s first entry into comics! 40:11 A Literary Game 52:40 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos lose their baubles over the third book in theChronicles of Prydain! There’s a kitty cat! Meow! 34:56 A Literary Game 46:49 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The dumb dumbs keep talking about this Prydain thing! Now they talk about the one Disney sorta made into a movie. But mainly they spend a lot of time remembering what happened in the book! Also: a Disney game is played! 36:59 A Literary Game 51:35 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos take a Welsh journey to ole Prydain land! Will we do all these books? Probably! I dunno! 35:00 A Literary Game 45:50 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
STRANDED continues with a book we selected ourselves! Because leaving the selections to chance is a nightmare! Anyway: this beloved American classic is discussed! Also: A fan favorite segment returns! 41:21 A Friend Returns! 51:21 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
Daniel forces us all to reflect on this awesomely grotesque graphic novel that’s a ‘sort of’ sequel a Rob Liefeld comic! By the eye! Also: a Rob Liefeld game is played! 29:45 A Literary Game 38:35 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
New guest (ghost?) and comedian Kristy Brannon (It’s All Downhill) shares the story-truth with the boyos in this Vietnam book/historical fiction/metafiction classic! Plus: A game is played! Kristy Bannon: @kristybannon @alldownhillpod 42:00 A Literary Game 59:20 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos finally learn to read and write English with this Orwell essay on language and oppression! Then they play a game about war and Metal Gear Solid or whatever! 40:33 A Literary Game 50:16 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
Stranded returns! The boyos hit up the bonnet-filled classic by Jane Austen! They discuss everything from first impressions to last impressions to everything Colin Firth! Plus: a game is played! 30:27 A Literary Game 43:47 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
Oh no, this episode is so long! Happy three years all you weirdos! The boyos return to WIZARD SCHOOL PARTS ONE THROUGH SEVEN to bring in our fourth year doing this crazy show. A lousy Sorting Hat app thing is played! Batteries run out! Magic happens! Happy Corona-tine everyone! 8:00 Wizard School and Rowling 48:51 A game! 1:02:06 The sorting hat game 1:21:43 Goblet of Fire TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos drop into the Pulitzer Prize winning The Interpreter of Maladies and dig up this little matter! They tell each other secrets in the dark and confront dark secrets! Also: a game is played! 30:27 A Literary Game 43:47 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos take a trip down memory lane to when they were nerds before it was cool! They read something called a ‘light novel’ the was adapted into an anime they both loved, like, 100 years ago. Plus they discuss the historical pandemic sweeping the nation… CATS! 40:50 A CATS Game 55:56 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
150 episodes of this madness! The boyos continue the STRANDED subseries by delving into this big ole book of magical realism! Plus: a game the recalls our crazy past! 36:37 A Literary Game 48:24 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos get all neighborly in this murder ballad by the fellow who wrote Winter’s Bone and Tomato Red! Also: a game is played! 28:07 A Literary Game 41:02 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos finally figure out who this Alice Munro person is! The revelation is pretty exciting! They read a story from her latest short fiction collection, Dear Life. Also: a game is played! 28:27 A Literary Game 36:49 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
Okay, so the boyos get kinda drunk and go on for a long time about this short story from the dark satire book Nazi Literature in the Americas by the late great Bolaño. Much fun is had! Plus: a Kanye game is played! 36:53 A Literary Game 46:46 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The gang is doing, like, another Beauty and the Beast tale! They’s also returning to the Angela Carter book of fairy tales! So yeah, many returns! 32:54 A Literary Game 45:04 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos catch up with Kenzie/Gennaro in the third book of Dennis “the Hatred” Lehane’s detective series (which includes Gone Baby Gone). Also: a slapdash literary game is played! 31:54 A Literary Game 42:59 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos take a shot in the dark and select this speculative fiction from an award winning author they didn’t really know about! Plus: a game is played! 30:36 A Literary Game 42:16 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
STRANDED! returns with this true crime pioneer! The boyos gab about the Philip Seymour Hoffman movie, veracity, and true crime podcasts while sort of discussing the nonfiction novel! Also: a Philip Seymour Hoffman game is played! 39:51 A Literary Game 48:32 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
New subseries! We go bluebearding for the titular story in this classic 20th century fairy tale collection! Also: a game is played! And “octopodes” and The Whiparound podcast is briefly discussed… 31:07 A Literary Game 46:37 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
The boyos delve into one of Obama’s favorite books of 2019 (Exhalation: Stories) for the shortest story they’ve done for a single episode! Plus a game about birds is played! TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
We’re celebrating the new Netflix The Witcher show by returning to the Witcher stories! This is a short from the first book: The Last Wish! Plus: a game about The Witcher is played! 33:30 A game is played 42:07 Final thoughts and The Witcher show TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
It’s cross over week! Slow Readers meets Watchmen: On the Clock, as the gang discusses the legendary graphic novel that the lousy HBO show is based on! Much merriment is had! Then: a creative exercise is played! TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
We’re continuing the sub-series (ugh) STRANDED! Where we slowly chew through all 80 books in the reader-favorited Strand 80 list! We throw ourselves under the wheels of this big ole Russian classic! 41:29 A Literary Game 56:02 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
We read a story from Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her. So yeah, the author’s history is complicated. We talk about that a lot. 44:24 - A Game! 58:24 - Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
What’re we talking about this week? We’re talking about three Carver stories: “Why Don’t You Dance?”, “The Bath,” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Have too many drinks and join us! Also: A game is played! 50:00 A Literary Game 01:02:29 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
All roads lead to this! We return to the (horrible) sub-series Stranded! and the (kinda great) acclaimed novel by Barbara Kingsolver! Also: a (not) literary game is played! 50:30 A (Non) Literary Game 1:10:00 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors
