It’s Lit! Book Club

What bug would you be if you were a bug? Have you ever fallen asleep at your job and been sentenced to die ? When was the last time you went 30 days without eating ? Join us as we discuss Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Hunger Artist".

Do you love secrets? Have you ever defected to the Soviet Union? Do you survive solely off of citrus and amphetamines? Then join us as we discuss Don DeLillo's "Libra".

Do you think all books should be less than 100 pages? Have you had 84 days of bad luck and are looking to turn things around? Is there an old baseball player that you constantly look to for inspiration and affirmation? Then join us as we discuss Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".

Are you satisfied with simply two incredible characters? Would you strike the sun if it offended you? Do you think Moby Dick deserves over 45,000 one star reviews on goodreads ? Regardless of your answers, join us as we discuss Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".

Do you feel like most books lack enough whale anatomy explanation? Does your mind ever make life affirming connections between ocean life and philosophy? Are you missing one leg? Then let's discuss Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".

In this episode we look back on the six books that we read in season one (The Great Gatsby, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Savage Detectives, Play It As It Lays, Inherent Vice, and Blood Meridian).

Have you ever considered changing your first name? Do you love an epilogue that is too cryptic to mean anything to you? Has a description of a desert ever moved you to tears? Then let's discuss Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian".0:00 - cold open11:08 - intro14:55 - Cormac McCarthy bio & context21:25 - plot summary28:00 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category1:23:12 - category #2 - the Donkey from Shrek “I like that boulder, that is a nice boulder” category1:30:07 - category #3 - The Mr. Browning from Inception “References are something of a speciality for me” category1:36:56 - category #4 - song roulette: Bodysnatchers by Radiohead and Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace by The Mountain Goats1:41:02 - category #5 - Caren from Mean Girls “Yeah but he’s my first cousin”1:45:28 - outro

Does your heart race when you hear Nicolas Cage's name mentioned? Did you smoke weed once or twice in high school? Do your parents ever talk to you about one of your exes? Then let's discuss Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice". 0:00 - cold open 5:30 - intro 8:20 - Thomas Pynchon bio & context / postmodernism 21:57 - plot summary 27:20 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category 1:06:33 - category #2 - draft of songs mentioned in the book 1:16:46 - category #3 - Parks & Rec. His Favorite Movie is Books category 1:32:35 - category #4 - Lifter Puller Smoking Weed & Makin Money category 1:40:48 - category #5 - song roulette: Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar and Desaparecido by Manu Chao 1:44:43 - category #6 - Karen from Mean Girls Yeah But He's My First Cousin category 1:47:25 - outro

Do you get excited when Ghostface Killah yells at you? Do you enjoy short chapters and lists? Can you handle facetious remarks about actually serious subjects? Then let's discuss Joan Didion's "Play It As It Lays". 0:00 - cold open 8:58 - intro 11:34 - Joan Didion bio & context 14:05 - plot summary 24:38 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category 57:24 - category #2 - School of Rock Style You Wanna Talk to Me About Style category 1:04:09 - category #3 - Do Yourself a Favor and Flush It Out category 1:20:05 - category #4 song roulette: Alone Again Or by Love, and Saint of Lost Causes by Justin Townes Earle 1:23:50 - category #5 - Karen from Mean Girls Yeah But He's My First Cousin category 1:27:38 - outro

Do you like the song "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants? Do you remember when Saul Goodman said he knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy? Do you want to groove for a while with Butthead? Join us as we thoroughly analyze and make total and complete sense of Arturo Belano's masterpiece The Savage Detectives. 0:00 - cold open 10:12 - intro 11:14 - context 17:17 - plot summary 22:28 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category 36:31 - category #2 - the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "Uhm see what had happened at first was..." category 1:06:25 - category #3 - the Saul Goodman "I know a guy who knows a guy...who might know a guy" category 1:20:10 - category #4 - the Dwight Schrute "the bigger the keychain the more powerful the man" category 1:45:20 - category #5 - the Beavis and Butthead "let's groove for a while with Butthead" category 1:57:50 - song roulette - The Crossing by Menahan Street Band, and Smith & Jones Forever by Silver Jews 2:00:55 - the Karen from Mean Girls "yeah but he's my first cousin" category 2:08:16 - outro

When was the last time you gasped? How do you feel about asymmetrical surfboards? How often do you think about your inevitable death? We tackle these hard hitting questions and more as we discuss Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 0:00 - cold open 3:46 - intro 7:50 - context (Marquez, Latin American lit) 10:45 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category 57:04 - category #2 - the Willy Wonka World of Pure Imagination category 1:08:52 - category #3 - Will You Still Need Me Will You Still Feed Me When I'm Sixty-Four 1:27:20 - category #4 - song roulette: Title & Registration by Death Cab for Cutie, and If We Were Vampires by Jason Isabel 1:35:07 - category #5 - the Karen from Mean Girls "yeah but he's my first cousin" category 1:40:30 - outro

Who is the most punchable character in The Great Gatsby? When is the best time to play Changes by David Bowie during this book? Have we ever cried over how beautiful a shirt was? We delve into the hard-hitting questions that the government doesn't want you to tackle in our first episode of the It's Lit Podcast. 0:00 - cold open 5:14 - intro 6:00 - context (modernism, Fitzgerald, etc.) 17:55 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category 57:53 - category #2 - the Ferris Bueller Isms In My Opinion Are Not Good category 1:08:30 - category #3 - "I Needa One Punch" category 1:12:07 - category #4 - Song Roulette: Changes by David Bowie & Angeles by Elliott Smith 1:17:55 - category #5 - the Karen From Mean Girls category 1:22:24 - outro