Lit Reviews
Literature: The (Not So) Midas Touch | 2N5E by Yuki Iwama
We discuss this intriguingly opaque short story, and ponder what it means to consume a god.[Average score: 5.6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQLAftf3U4&list=PLGTCsoekBvDQ3_-1HwTg3PYY54dzFRPpv&index=79
Literature: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be in this classic story from one of the greats that is more of a thought/discussion piece. [Aggregate…
Literature: The School by Donald Barthelme
TLS learns about the birds and the bees, and how they and everything else will eventually die in this short New Yorker story. [Aggregate score:…
Literature: Killing/Stalking by Koogi (Part 2, Chapters 11-19)
TLS covers another listener request, checking out more of Korean comic Killing/Stalking, discussing the latter half of season 1. More about the comic at: https://www.lezhin.com/en/comic/killingstalkingintro…
Literature: Judgement Day (EC, 1953) by (writer) Al Feldstein and (artist) Joe Orlando
TLS travels back in time to the far future of humanity to fight against racism in this golden age era comic.[Aggregate score: 8] https://youtu.be/Ky8GOwLUpuY
Literature: The 9 Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
TLS argues over the efficiency and merit of possible world ending computational linguistics in this classic sci-fi short. [Aggregate score: 5.5] https://youtu.be/soXsYS63x0c
Literature: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
TLS reviews a classic Dahl story while enjoying their favorite meal-- delicious irony.[Aggregate score: 8] https://youtu.be/kNYd2htzg38
Literature: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
In a fever dream of intense storytelling, TLS reviews one of Katherine Anne Porter's semi-autobiographical 'short novels.' [Aggregate score: 10] https://youtu.be/up_5rV6eo2o
Literature: The Lawnmower Man by Stephen King
As a teaser for this year's upcoming MOTS-O-Ween celebration, TLS does its late summer horror chorin' with this King short story.[Aggregate score: 3] https://youtu.be/GocS4xlA-o4
Literature: The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
The crew buzzes around the nest about this multiple-award-nominated story and its tale of two insect communities. [Aggregate score: 8] https://youtu.be/K05JtvVYLoU
Literature: Killing/Stalking by Koogi
TLS discusses (without reviewing) the first 10 chapters of this Korean comic that depicts a quite unnerving yet deeply fascinating relationship portrayal as well as…
Literature: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
TLS awakes to find themselves in an uncanny review of the quintessential Kafkaesque experience. [Aggregate score: 9] https://youtu.be/Xex90WPbzQc
Literature: The Daughters of the Moon by Italo Calvino
TLS discovers who among us are moon children and who are the ravenous consumers while discussing this dreamy, fairytale-like story.[Aggregate score: 5.5] https://youtu.be/g_gW0b7dUK0
Literature: The Knowers by Helen Phillips
TLS wishes themselves a happy death day while reviewing this solid slice of a short story.[Aggregate score: 7] https://youtu.be/226nL7kmeiY
Literature: The Plague by Albert Camus
Taking a quick detour from traditional reviews, two TLS members discuss a few of the key elements and ideas from Camus' classic tale of the…