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litreactor.com Breaking the Rules: How the Serial Podcast Achieved its Insane Popularity

In November last year, the ‘Serial’ podcast hit 5m downloads. But what explains its insane popularity? Is it because of the rules that it follows, or because of the rules that it breaks?

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Episode 18 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Posthumous Novels News: Bret Easton Ellis, Noel Gallagher, and Jonathan Franzen: a darling of the 80s, the 90s, and the aughts think we care what they have to say about life in the twenty-teens. Cue...

Episode 18 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Posthumous Novels

News: Bret Easton Ellis, Noel Gallagher, and Jonathan Franzen: a darling of the 80s, the 90s, and the aughts think we care what they have to say about life in the twenty-teens. Cue the derisive comments about their seminal works!

Reads: Zombies in the age of Obamacare, two books that make Rob hard (oh, I’m sorry, that’s work hard), and James Franco’s Actors Anonymous, which prompts Josh to dub the multi-hyphenate “a better writer than Jack Kerouac.” JAMES, FEEL FREE TO USE THIS QUOTE!

Topic: Posthumous novels. Are they a good idea? Should they be published regardless of suckitude? We discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of works from beyond the grave! (Said in scary ghost voice.)

Episode 17: Josh, Cath and Rob talk about gay Western noir, Bond noir, non-fiction noir and the great Goodreads censorship controversy (noir).
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Episode 17: Josh, Cath and Rob talk about gay Western noir, Bond noir, non-fiction noir and the great Goodreads censorship controversy (noir).

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Clive Thompson, author of “Smarter Than You Think,” explains why relying on web searches, mobile devices and apps isn’t going to replace human thought and memory.