The Infinite Library

This week, Ben's pal Claire joins us to discuss "The Two Towers". As always, we hope that you enjoy the conversation!

We discuss the latter part of "The Fellowship of the Ring" by JRR Tolkien. As always, we hope that you enjoy the conversation.

We begin our Fall season with a discussion of the first book of The Lord of the Rings. Topics of discussion include Tolkien's background and how it may have impacted his writing, "Concerning Hobbits", and what a cool guy Tom Bombadil is. As always, we hope that you enjoy the show!

The week, Book Boys say goodbye to the Summer of Bad Vibes by discussing Don DeLillo's opus "Libra". We discuss paranoid reading, Lee Harvey Oswald as American everyman, Hysterial Realism. At the end, we even take a brief detour to Tinsel Town and chat a bit about Oliver Stone's "JFK". As always, we hope that you enjoy our conversation! Works Cited * "Paranoid and Reparative Reading" by Eve Sedgewick * "Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James

This week, 3-time returning champ Molly Tanzer is back in the stacks to discuss Mikhail Bulgakov's classic: "The Master and Margarita"! And this time she brought a friend: Melissa (AKA MK Sauer) joined us a second guest and expert on Russian lit as we gave the book the full Infinite Library treatment! As always, we hope that you enjoy our conversation!