Abby and Jess discuss a new book each week. Episodes every Tuesday.
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It's our Christmas Special!
Today Abby and Jess try to bring some festive cheer by discussing Charles Dickens' Christmas classic. Naturally, going via a discussion of 'why ghosts', poor politics, Mariah Carey, and which ghost are you?
We'd also like to take the opportunity to suggest some donations that are close to our hearts. If you are able to we'd love for you to make a one-off, or recurring, donation to any of these charities in our name if you've enjoyed the podcast this year.
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Merry Christmas, we'll see you in the new year x
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15 Dec 2020
Midnight Sun
Abby has finally done it, Jess has read a Twilight book.
Our resident YA fiction queen recalls her childhood of reading the Twilight books, and discusses the story written from Edward's perspective in terms of rewriting, target audience, and of course, brooding.
New episodes every Tuesday – join us next week for our Christmas special!
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8 Dec 2020
Mrs Dalloway
One of the most famous modernist novels, Jess and Abby tackle Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and, yes, even try to summarise the plot.
What do we think of Woolf's male characters? What even is a "social" novel? And how on earth does Abby manage to weave Twilight into the discussion? We all know there's only one way to answer these questions.
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1 Dec 2020
Macbeth
Murder? Timeless.
For more out of context soundbites, look no further than this week's episode, where Jess and Abby discuss Shakespeare's Macbeth (after Jess takes some convincing that Macbeth and Richard III are, in fact, very different plays).
If you're here just for a summary? Abby's got that covered. If you want to know how Come Dine With Me and 'it's just like reading your horoscopes to a t' comes into things, you might need to listen to a bit more.
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17 Nov 2020
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson's short story, 'The Lottery' is the subject of this week's conversation between Jess and Abby.
You can read the story on the New Yorker website here (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery).
A gothic story of family, community, obligation and tradition, Abby and Jess still naturally manage to discuss it in terms of horror movies, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Horrible Histories, and Midsommar's 'flower slug'.
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10 Nov 2020
The Great Gatsby
You asked, you receive.
Ever wondered what Jess and Abby think Gatsby's Instagram profile would look like? You've come to the right place.
Via a conversation that swerves from Fitzgerald's female characters, to who is allowed to partake in consumerism, to the age-old question of what deserves to be called a classic, Jess and Abby finally get to relive their A Level analysis of The Great Gatsby.
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3 Nov 2020
What we read over lockdown
We're back!
To start series two we both talk through some of the books we read during lockdown, as we face another one. From fiction through to books we lent and borrowed (and we know how picky Jess is about who she lends books to) we try and fit it all into 40 mins.
We would like to encourage anyone looking to buy any of the books we mentioned to do so through the new bookshop.org (bookshop.org). A new website and centre for independent bookshops — simply search up any book and be pointed in the direction of a local bookshop who stocks it.
Jess:
The Last Samurai - Helen Dewitt
Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls
We Both Laughed in Pleasure - Lou Sullivan
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett
Right After the Weather - Carol Anshaw
Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race
The Good Immigrant - edited by Nikesh Shukla
Summer - Ali Smith
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Carceral Capitalism - Jackie Wang
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Abby:
Insomniac City- Bill Hayes
Denying the Holocaust- Deborah Lipstadt
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists- Alex Danchev
Catch and Kill- Ronan Farrow
No Visible Bruises- Rachel Louise Snyder
Night Film- Marissa Pessl
Lost at Sea- Jon Ronson
Convenience Store Women- Sayaka Murata
In the Miso Soup- Ryu Murakami
American Psycho- Brett Easton Ellis
We Both Laughed in Pleasure- Lou Sullivan
Trans, a Memoir- Juliet Jacques
Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
The Pisces- Melissa Broder
A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara
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30 Jun 2020
8: The Mule Bone
Abby and Jess discuss The Mule Bone via decolonising the curriculum, the politics of language, and the radical capacity for stage performance versus a text on the page.
As ever, if you want to suggest something for us to have a look at, drop us an email at didtheradingpod@gmail.com
Articles discussed:
1991 NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/10/theater/theater-why-the-mule-bone-debate-goes-on.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/10/theater/theater-why-the-mule-bone-debate-goes-on.html)
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23 Jun 2020
7. Howl
Ever wondered how much Abby and Jess can talk about a subject they don't know much about? Listen to this episode, which covers Beat Poetry, the obscenity trial, and structuring Howl.
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16 Jun 2020
6: The Fifty-Ninth Bear
Jess and Abby discuss Sylvia Plath's short story via The Metal Bowl, The Bell Jar, and Hugh Grant makes an appearance.
Tune in for two 22-year olds' opinions on how to have a successful marriage, the impulse to biography in Plath criticism, how 'all of Shakespeare is just communication issues' and how bringing snacks to every social occasion is simply 'BEing prePAREd'.
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9 Jun 2020
5: Good Morning Midnight
Jess and Abby discuss Good Morning Midnight, cite one another and even manage to work in some very ill-informed discussion of Ulysses.
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26 May 2020
4: The Bloody Chamber
Jess and Abby talk about Angela Carter's classic fairytale adaptation- via Queer Eye, Made in Chelsea and a couple of misquoted psychoanalysts.
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19 May 2020
3: Fahrenheit 451
Abby and Jess discuss Fahrenheit 451, what's up with the girl who is around for 3 pages, how we treat our own books, and how we can judge science fiction from the 1950s.
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12 May 2020
2: The Catcher in the Rye
Abby and Jess discuss Catcher in the Rye, phoniness, a failed skateboarding career and the eternal question: would Holden Caulfield be fun at parties?
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5 May 2020
1: The Pit and the Pendulum
For our first episode, we look at Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Pit and the Pendulum.
Join us as we talk about Bear Grylls, I'm a Celeb, recount a cinema trip that was equal parts amusing and horrifying, discuss why Home Alone is actually pretty concerning, and why we all love a scary story at Christmas time.
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