Episode 3: I've Just Been Doing a Little Reading, Barbie

Artwork by Corianton Hale

Frizzelle’s in-studio surprise: a Hawaiian shirt of Jake David Foster Wallacing

Some things we discuss in this episode:

• Barbie & Greta Gerwig

• What Middlemarch is about

• Visiting the Charles Dickens Museum in London

• When the original Silent Reading Party got onto the homepage of Reddit

We are reading this funny, wicked classic in book club next. Starts Thursday night. Tickets here.

Other things we discussed:

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie book club

• Whether we want to have kids

• Nicholson Baker’s Room Temperature and A Box of Matches and The Anthologist

• Nicholson Baker’s Twitter

• Shakespeare’s sonnets and what April Bernard said about them

• Geoff Dyer’s book Out of Sheer Rage, about trying to write about D.H. Lawrence, and visiting a place where Lawrence lived in Italy

  

  Jake visited the Dickens Museum in London in 2021 (that’s Dickens’s mirror). Christopher visited in 2022.

This conversation was recorded mid-August and released September 5, 2023.

Our theme song is by Adam Haws

Art by Corianton Hale