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81 - Renata Adler's Speedboat
Manage episode 318094185 series 1236037
Renata Adler’s Speedboat starts and stops, accelerates and leaps, soars and crashes just like some sort of . . . well, you get it. Join David, Nathan, and Nick as they discuss this compact novel filled with vignettes of 1970s life and all of the sardonic observations that come along with it. But do the vignettes combine to create something more impactful? Is the book funny? And how does one define humor in literature anyway?
Listen in for our own starts and stops as we talk our way through this intriguing little book and try to define the indefinable.
108 episoder
Manage episode 318094185 series 1236037
Renata Adler’s Speedboat starts and stops, accelerates and leaps, soars and crashes just like some sort of . . . well, you get it. Join David, Nathan, and Nick as they discuss this compact novel filled with vignettes of 1970s life and all of the sardonic observations that come along with it. But do the vignettes combine to create something more impactful? Is the book funny? And how does one define humor in literature anyway?
Listen in for our own starts and stops as we talk our way through this intriguing little book and try to define the indefinable.
108 episoder
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