The Bookhouse Boys

Matt, Jason and Dave take an informal, book club style look through classic and modern literature. Join us every Tuesday for literary chat as insightful as your average annotated Norton and as drunk as Faulkner himself.

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The Bookhouse Boys - Bird Box

Matt, Dave and Jason rise from the dead once again to vivisect Josh Malerman's 2014 horror novel "Bird Box", with some bonus discussion of "Middlesex", Alan Moore's novels, and Cormac McCarthy. Thanks for listening! INTRO/OUTRO: "Nosferatu Man"/Bookhouse Boy intro mash-up by Slint & Matt Howell INTERMISSION: "Good Morning, Captain" by Slint

Oct 29, 2017•2 hr 12 min

Bookhouse Boys - The Brothers K

Hey, all. We're back to talk about David James Duncan's acclaimed novel about family, religion, forgiveness and baseball, "The Brothers K". Thanks for listening! OUTRO: "Things Happen" by Dawes Talk to us over at: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18211793-let-s-read-a-book#comment_number_5

Dec 01, 2016•1 hr 43 min

Bookhouse Boys - The Willows

Oooooooh, creepy. It's Halloween again, and that means one thing. Going to a lame haunted house. Okay, two things. You also need to run out and buy a big bag of lollipops for the trick-or-treaters, and not the Snickers you wanted because you waited until the last second again. Okay, three things: going to your neighbor's lame party you tried to get out of, but you and your wife gave two different reasons when they invited you and now you have to go and just try to sneak out at 9:49pm. Let me cut...

Oct 26, 2015•1 hr 44 min

Bookhouse Boys: Go Set a Watchman

There are only a few literary events of sufficient gravity to lure the Bookhouse Boys out of retirement: dinosaur romance....a new Twilight novel...or a new novel from infamously reticent one shot wonder Harper Lee. Join us as we boldly lay bare our childhood heroes, strip the rose-colored gauze from our eyes, and decide whether GSAW can stand proudly alongside the greatest works of American literature...or if its only legacy will be to topple one of literature's most revered pillars. OUTRO: "Th...

Aug 24, 2015•1 hr 25 min

Bookhouse Boys Halloween Special 2014: Annihilation

Boo! The Bookhouse Boys reconvene for one more Samhain ritual, dragging along poor guest Scott to be our sacrificial victim. We discuss Book 1 of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation, and then chat about other random topics both macabre and mundane. Join us...if YOU DARE!...and you probably should, cause it isn't scary at all and it's lonely out here on the internet. Can I have a Snickers bar?

Nov 01, 2014•1 hr 56 min

Bookhouse Boys: Until We Meet Again

A good friend of ours once said, "Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." So just listen. OUTRO: "Setting Sun" by The Lower 48

May 17, 2014•1 hr 43 min

Bookhouse Boys: More Terrifying Than You Can Imagine

Lawrence Rosales, friend, writer, and host of the New Worlds Podcast, joins us on our 3rd annual Halloween show to talk about Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan, Lawrence's stories and inspirations ("The Ice Pick Cure," "Gumdrop," "The Boys," the Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine, Stephen King), The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All" by pirate Laird Barron, John Langan, the Dracula fan edit, 31 Days of Horror, Theodore Sturgeon (Some of Your Blood, "The Professor's Teddy Bear"), Clive Barker, Neil ...

Oct 30, 2013•1 hr 48 min

Bookhouse Boys: In the Heart of the Sea

Avid reader, podcast listener, and book podcast connoisseur Emily joins us in a voyage into the darkness and light in the hearts of men in a rousing tale of storm tossed seas, angry whales, deserted isles, cannibalism, and survival called In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. OUTRO: "You Were My Fiji" by John Vanderslice Come talk to us over on our Goodreads page: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/46928.The_Bookhouse_Boys Our Twitter feed: http://t...

Oct 02, 2013•1 hr 25 min

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