Samuel Delaney describes himself as a "boring old Marxist," which, as boring old Marxist ourselves, we think slaps. But there's nothing boring about Babel-17 (1966). A poet starship captain, a cat-man pilot, and space throuples? Sign us up!

Happy bday to the realist one. Blasting our intro music in your honor, comrade.

excited as a person who only knows of this book from a passing mention in Northanger Abbey lol

yessss I've been waiting for this one

Happy Halloween 2023, comrades! We have maybe the most batshit novel of the British gothic on offer for you -- Mathew Lewis's The Monk. Satan turns into a dinosaur at the end. A hot wizard named Matilda dommes the devil himself. Join us for a wild ride!

And we're back! With Aldous Huxley's totally incoherent Brave New World, a staple of high-school English classes and people into Jungianism (gross). We're down with dunking on Fordism, but it would be cool if Huxley knew why it was bad.

IT'S HAPPENING

Comrades -- we're back this Sunday! Our Brave New World ep drops 10/8, and we have The Monk soon after.

Teaching Frankenstein this wk and re-listening to the first-ever episode of @betterreadpod.bsky.social (lit from a left perspective ) bc it’s awesome you should subscribe podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

You guys wanna know what our Halloween special this year is??

We just recorded -- finally -- our Brave New World episode! It's real bad (the book, not the episode, which was tons of fun). Will be out in a few weeks, with trashy ultra-goth The Monk to follow. Then Samuel Delaney!

Happy Bastille Day, BlueSky comrades! Exactly four years ago today, we launched this little commie books podcast with a dream — what if we could combine our job of knowing stuff about books with our love of shitposting. We’re so happy to have you on this journey with us. New eps coming soon!