This week's episode is a reason-revelation-salvation-redemption joint as Keeper kicks off Book III. The weather (and infinite sadness) persist, Keeper confronts and enacts white supremacy, and we wonder if Stephen Markley is a Christopher Nolan hater or fan delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/k...

Jackie II: what does Jackie's meeting with, pitch to, and reflections on the "Sustainable Future Coalition" (🤮) tell us about nostalgia, green capitalism, and sexual politics? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/j...

Coping with the world through fake podcast ads with @emilykcrandall.bsky.social for @delugecast.bsky.social

New episode: Is the Book II headline splash taking place in 2029 or right now? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/b...

New ep on Ashir II. What are the limits of dispassionate empiricism, how does Ash's dispassionate empiricism interact with legislative policy negotiations?! Plus feminist philosophy office hours w/Dr. @emilykcrandall.bsky.social & the sexual politics of meat delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/a...

New episode! An interlude posing the most important question of them all :can (more importantly, should) you rhyme "OK boomer" with "climate doomer"? We also talk about the legacies of Gore, McKibben and Hansen and how/why Markley engages them in the novel. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...

New episode on Shane II! Surveillance capitalism, the slow violence of climate change and what that means for human agency, oh so much Foucault, and surprise surprise, the weather is a character again. Plus, the eternal question: are you a Shane or a Kate? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/s...

New episode time: Matt II gives us another opportunity to discuss movement politics and movement theory as we dig deeper into Fierce Blue Fire confronting their inside-outside strategy for climate politics. Stick around for a rousing game of Fox or Lion! delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...

New episode, on Tony's trip up and down Magic Mountain. Come for the analysis of identity politics in the chapter and novel, stay for the celeb commentary, Thomas Mann bits, and the "Is Tony a Good Dad?" discussion. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/t...

Our new episode is Keeper II, in which we discuss Faulkner, the geographies of late capitalism, why Keeper and Tony are both necessary POVs in a climate novel, Warren Zevon, freezing hurricanes, and power rank best Book of Ezekiel/valley of bones references delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/7...

New episode! Markley's version of a longform profile of Kate merits a full episode from your trusty Delugecasters. We go inside A Fierce Blue Fire and a new set of characters to examine movement politics and the politics of The Novel as a form delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/k...

We are new to Bluesky! Join a Claudia, a Dawn, and a Kristy as we revisit the best books of our youth and see what holds up and what doesn’t in 2025! As an adolescent psychologist, a feminist political theorist, and a pop culture writer, we have a lot to say! New episodes every other Thursday!

✨🎶We are thrilled that @harvilla.bsky.social of “60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s” (now continuing with: the 2000s!) joined us to talk all things Claudia, radio, and BSC! 💿 Rob was a great sport and endlessly amused by the… Stoneybrook of it all. ☺️ Come chat nineties wherever you get your podcasts!🎙️

New episode: A loooooong time jump and a new part of The Deluge begins with...an imagined article on ecotage, the criminalization of dissent, US climate politics, and many kinds of connecting many kinds of dots for character and reader alike... delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i...

Our first Matt episode closes out our coverage of Book I. Is Matt a Markley avatar? Is Kate the main character of the novel? How does this engage myths about wilderness and the West? Can you really impress someone by carrying around Arendt? All this and more: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/6...

A new interlude episode this week, on the in-universe WSJ article criticizing Tony's climate book. Come for office hours w/ @emilykcrandall.bsky.social on the politics of science, stay for some commentary on the humor and functional purpose of the interlude delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/i...

New episode time: Ashir I, set in 2016, leads us two bros to consider betting, algorithms, human relationships, the NBA, writing neurodivergence, Aristotle, Uncut Gems...and surely climate too, no? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/a...

Hi Bluesky! While I get situated on this platform, listen to my interview with @serenekhader.bsky.social from last November on her new book Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop over on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/faux-feminism

Second of two new episodes this week! The first Keeper chapter. We explore connections to Markley's previous book Ohio; the effects on the reader of the second person perspective for Keeper; cruelty and violence in the chapter and novel; and more. delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/k...

First of two new episodes this week! We discuss the headline splash in Book I of The Deluge, covering the reading experience and function of the headline collages, and the way this one in particular situates us in the late Obama years: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/i...

New episode! Our first chapter with Jackie situates the reader in the Midwest, introduces us to The Actor, queries 21st c. hetero gender relations, shows us the normie POV on climate, and provokes your dear podcast hosts to do a lot of psychoanalysis. delugecast.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/3...

New episode! It's the first Shane chapter, which gives us a chance to talk about the invisible infrastructures of fossil capitalism (and of this novel), the politics and culture of the war on terror, the audacity and uncertainty of the text boxes, and more. delugecast.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/2...

Our first two episodes are OUT NOW! Prologue: What is this podcast and why does this novel merit such analysis?! Tony I: the meaning of science, the threats to and of climate science, and the depoliticization of science...plus absurdist Harrison Ford daydreaming delugecast.wordpress.com