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Book Spider

Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride…

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Latest episodes

  1. S4 Ep93: Michel de Montaigne's Antiquated Essays19 Jul 2026
  2. S4 Ep92: John Updike's Couples is a work of cold, amoral beauty21 Jun 2026
  3. S4 Ep89: The Mundanity of True Human Horror: Section 1 of Roberto Bolaño's Opus, "2666"28 Apr 2026
  4. S4 Ep88: A Journal of the Plague Year: An Interesting Historical Artifact14 Apr 2026
  5. S4 Ep87: The hollowness of surface satisfactions in Latronico's perfectly adequate Perfection5 Apr 2026
  6. S4 Ep86: The Catharsis of Chaotic, Perpetual Suffering in Phil Tippet's "Mad God"23 Mar 2026
  7. S4 Ep84: Bleak House, Coming up for Air, and the demise of the English literary tradition8 Mar 2026
  8. S4 Ep83: kew. rhone. and the uses of obscure art24 Feb 2026
  9. S4 Ep82: Pynchon's "Inherent Vice" and Paul Thomas Anderson's film adaptation: A most delightful multimodal pair8 Feb 2026
  10. S4 Ep81: Two Say Nay, One Says Yea to Ian McEwan's Atonement22 Jan 2026