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 | FREE 09.29.24 Episode 393: Summer Book Club Grail Quest: Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval What...is your name? --Sir Lancelot of Camelot. What...is your quest? --To seek the Holy Grail. What...is your favorite color? --Blue. Right, off you go. Topics: Media, Good News, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Welsh, Irish, Celtic, Ritual, Mystery Cults, Mabinogion, Plato, Albigensian, Neo-Platonic, Song of Solomon, Feminism, Horn of Plenty, Troubadour, 12th Century, God, Christ, Sprit, Electricity, Story Tellers, Gilgamesh. Loading the player...  |
   | Purchase: Perceval from bookshop.org Watch: John Oliver on DaVinci Code Watch: Screen Rant on Davinci Code |
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 | FREE 06.23.24 Episode 392: Spring Book Club Grail Quest: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival What troubles you, Uncle? Or so we try to find for this our Spring installment of the Seasonal Book Club with Wolfram von Eschenbach's 12th Century masterpiece, Parzival as our guide. Drop the reins and let it guide you! Topics: Higher Meaning, Joseph Campbell, Jung Purpose, Myth, Teleology, Material Goal, Spiritual Quest, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Superheroes, Arthurian Literature, The Grail, The Matter of Britain, The History of the Kings of Britain, Hengist and Horsa, Angles & Saxons & Jutes, Mystery Religions, Jessie Weston, The Golden Bough, The Waste Land, Yesterday's Men, Lost in Translation, Duality, Labyrinth, The Whale, The Leviathan, Job, Chretien, The Black Rock. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: Parzival at bookshop.org Read: "Yesterday's Men" at harpers.org Explore: Parzival Tranlastion at freeburn.biz |
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 | FREE 03.23.24 Episode 391: Winter Book Club Valis Today the secret, early Christians reassemble in plenary session to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Philip K Dick's 2-3-74 experiences by reconvening the Rhipidon Society at the Sombrero Bar to discuss Dick's 1981 Synchromystic Blueprint, Valis. Topics: PKD, Synchromysticism, Vast Active Living Intelligence, Reality, Gnosticism, Truth, Path, Trash Stratum, Humor, Playmate, 1991, Nag Hammadi, Black Iron Prison, Hyper-Links, Sync-Link, Communication, Friends of God, Blade Runner, Three-Eyed Fish People, Akhenaten, Hymn to Aten, Psalm 104, Exegesis, Jung, Flow My Tears, King Felix Cipher, Acts, Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Not a God, Oppenheimer. Loading the player... |
 | Explore: Valis at TheSyncBook.com Listen: 1979 PKD Inteview at youtube.com Read: "Blows Against The Empire" at newyorker.com Listen: More VALIS and The Rhipidon Society at Always Record |
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 | FREE 01.13.24 Episode 390: Fall Book Club Moby-Dick; or, The Whale “Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick—but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?” “Who told thee that?” cried Ahab; then pausing, “Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye,” he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; “Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!” Topics: Nantucket Whaling, Quaker, The Line, Shakespeare, Job, Order, Chaos, McCarthy, Civil War, 1840's, the Essex, Sync Journey, Theatrical, Industrialism, Metaphor, Blasphemy, Gnosticism, Leviathan, Demi Urge, Ishmael & Ahab, Dragon Perseus, Hero of Order, Force of Chaos, Town Ho! Sons of Abraham, Soul of Man, Vortex, Sea, Mind, Waves, Spiral, Coffin. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 09.23.23 Episode 389: Summer Book Club Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In The West Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove, and so did the Book Club as we hove toward Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian first published in 1985 and oft called his magnum opus. Topics: The Kid, Moby Dick, The Judge, Captain White, Glanton Gang, Mason & Dixon, Slavery, Civil War, Fantasy, Carnival, Four of Cups, Ahab & The Whale, Sunset, Sunrise, Jacob Boehme, Senseless Violence, My Confession, Chamberlain, Thanos, Crowley, Will, War, Nietzsche, Chaos, Order. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 06.25.23 Episode 388: Spring Book Club Mason & Dixon Visit: Mason & Dixon at Bookshop.org "Is it not the very Rhythm of the Engines, the Clamor of the Mills, the Rock of the Oceans, the Roll of the Drums in the Night, why if one wish'd to give it a Name?" Tonight, for 42 minutes, we’ve taken our Pynchon obsession back to the 60’s for some Surf Music in B Flat major by celebrating Mason & Dixon as our spring seasonal Book Club choice, first published in 1997. Topics: Thomas Pynchon, Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, 18th Century, Revolution, 1786, Mason-Dixon Line, Will Morgan, Synchronicity, Pynchonicity, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Ted Lasso, Geordie, Don Quixote, Melancholy, Transit of Venus, Carl Jung, 1882, Joyce, 2012, (366 days ≠ 360 degrees), 11 missing days, Enlightenment, Secret Societies, Jesuits v. Free Masons, Royal Society, Age of Reason, Magick, Imagination, Slavery, Capitalism, EOC, Fang. Loading the player... |
 | Watch: "Sailing to Philadelphia" at youtube.com Read: "Line, Vortex, and Mound" at swarthmore.edu Read: "The Cheese Wheels of Time" at blogspot.com Explore: Crypto K at youtube.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 04.29.23 Episode 387: Winter Book Club Zanoni Tonight for 42 minutes, we will be initiated into the mysteries of the Rosy Cross! And our mentor will be Zanoni . . . Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration. Topics: Rosicrucianism, French Revolution, Style, Ideas, The Last Man, Diction, King James English, Gothic, Saltitude, Zanoni Explained, Types, Science, Idealism, Aspiration, Dweller On The Threshold, Godwin, Dickens, Blavatsky, Steiner, Crowley, Bowie, Alchemical Wedding,17, Eliphas Levi, Tarot, Keys To The Mysteries, Live Math, 81, Plato, Immortals, Magic, Haunted, Elixir. Loading the player... |
 | Read: Zanoni on Kindle for free at Amazon.com Read: "Beyond the Occult: The Godwinian Nexus of Bulwer's Zanoni" at victorianweb.org Listen: The Last Man at Sync Book Radio Explore: Book Club at Bookshop.org Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 12.13.22 Episode 381: Fall Book Club Notes From Underground Tonight we try to find a "5" on this 12.2.22 because, 2×2 is four is not life, gentleman, but death. Or so we shall see on this, our Fall installment of the seasonal Book Club where we mice shall find a home in the underground, Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, first published in 1864. Topics: Fiction, Exist, 40, 24, Theory, Praxis, 1840s/1860s, Romanticism, Beautiful & Lofty, Nihilism, Cynicism, Superiority, Useless, Psychological, The Idiot, Revolutionary, Religious, Radical Writers, Siberia, 1864, Stockholm Syndrome, Character Types, New Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Utopian, Joy, Piano Key, World's Fair, Promenade. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: Notes From Underground from bookshop.org Explore: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club at bookshop.org Read: "The Translation Wars" at newyorker.com Listen: more Notes From Underground AlwaysRecord.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 10.03.22 Episode 380: Summer Book Club Job "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die." Or so said Job's wife after he was afflicted by Satan with boils. The Book Club get our own potshard to scratch out some of these ills found in the Book of Job for our summer Book Club. Topics: Mark Golding, 49, Flow, Jung, Blake, Tom Bombadil, King James, Authorized Version, Committee, New Revised Standardized Version, Blavatsky, Satan, Serpent, Gnostic, Initiation, completion, Righteous, Justified, Northrop Frye, The Great Code, History, Law, Ritual, Poetry, Prophecy, Wisdom. Loading the player... |
 | Read: Dance The Deep Line by Mark Golding at blogspot.com Explore: Sacred Geometry Mandalas at markgolding.co.uk Listen: Mark Golding on Sync Book Radio at thesyncbook.com |
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 | FREE 05.17.22 Episode 379: Spring Book Club Hamlet To be or not to be . . . Topics: Mel Gibson, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Franco Zephirelli, Romeo & Juliet, Olivia Hussey, 1990, 1968, BBC, David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, 1948, Language, Ghosts & Madness, Frances Yates, Bruno, Melancholy, Agrippa, Ethan Hawk, Dune, Grief, Greed, Famous Quotes, Stephen Greenblatt, Joyce, Hamlet's Mill, World Mythology, Procession of Equinoxes, Cultural Touchstone, King James, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Robert Fludd, Globe Theater. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 02.02.22 Episode 373: Winter Book Club Ulysses The Book Club celebrates the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce which was published on February 2nd 1922, his 40th birthday. Our first encounter with this work was back in 2017 on Bloomsday, June 16th, for episode number 278. Topics: Homer, The Odyssey, Dublin, Ireland, Schema, Telemachus, Circe, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Nighttown, Ithaca, Nostos, Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man, Stephen Hero, William York Tindall, Correspondences, Macro/Micro, Adam Kadmon, Embodied, 1967, Calypso, The Tunnel, Myth, Celtic Renaissance, Richard Ellmann, Obscenity, Mystery, Initiation. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: Ulysses at bookshop.org Listen: RTE Full Cast Ulysses at archive.org Watch: 1967 Ulysses at vimeo.com |
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 | FREE 12.23.21 Episode 372: Fall Book Club The Last Man The Book Club celebrates apocalypse this holiday season for our fall book with Mary Shelly's The Last Man which was an inspiration for the now cancelled FX post-apocalyptic TV series. Topics: Frankenstein, Prophecy, Sibyl's Cave, Plutarch, Delphi, Station 11, Distopic, Ada, Nabokov, Ada Lovelace, Henry Fuseli, Gothic, Laudanum, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Anarchist, Caleb Williams, Milton, Darkside, Dracula, Romanticism. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 10.12.21 Episode 370: Summer Book Club Naked Lunch For the summer Book Club, we continue on with our Beat theme, this time sharing 42 minutes on William S. Burroughs's 1959 classic, Naked Lunch, one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. This is an unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone. Topics: Junky, Queer, 90s, Cut Ups, Synchromysticism, Sex, Drugs, Tangier, Interzone, Paul & Jane Bowles, Ethics, Cancel, Transgression, Orgasm, Cronenberg, Divination, Dr Benway, Schizo, Cocaine, Yage Letters, Ayahuasca, Technology, Mayan Codexes, Control System, Word Virus, Junk Economy, Matrix. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: Naked Lunch from Bookshop.org Watch: Naked Lunch at Archive.org Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com Explore: Book Club at Bookshop.org Listen: more Naked Lunch on Always Record at thesyncbook.com |
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 | FREE 07.02.21 Episode 367: Spring Book Club The Sheltering Sky The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles. Topics: Traveler, Arrogance, Trauma, Elegance, John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Ex Pats, Artists, Survival, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, North Africa, Omens, Train Dream, Rationality = Sheltering Sky, The Infinite, Western Chauvinism, Heart Of Darkness, Awakening. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 03.28.21 Episode 360: Winter Book Club The Recognitions To get to the heart of the matter--the Stabat Mater--the seasonal Book Club returns to re-cognize William Gaddis's 1955 masterpiece 'The Recognitions' for the winter edition. Topics: William Gaddis, Bridge, Modernism, Beats, Post Modernism, DFW, Christian Mystery Novel, Clementines, First Christian Novel, Last Christian Novel, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Golden Baugh, Battle of the Trees, Poetry, TS Eliot, Palimsest, Anamnesis, The Vanity of Time, Sheri Martinelli, Faust, Sympathetic Magic, 1949, Communion, Holy Fragments. Loading the player... |
 | Listen: 42 Minutes 249 at 42minutes.com Explore: The Recognitions at williamgaddis.org Read: "Re Cognize" at 42minutes.substack.com Listen: more Recognitions on Always Record at thesyncbook.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 12.07.20 Episode 357: Special Edition Book Club Death Sweat Of The Cluster Just in time for Christmas, the program hosts a "Special Edition" of the seasonal Book Club with a panel of experts upon the subject of Znore's recently published book, 'Death Sweat Of The Cluster'. The panel includes: Bill Klaus, Mark Golding, Zach Bauer, Wally Scharold, Nick Ulbrick, & Alan Abbadessa. Topics: Cultural Marxism, Cross Fertilization, Will Morgan, Synchronicity Generator, Cosmic Trigger, 60s, 2000s, Cognitive Fireworks, Hindsight 2020, Modernism, Crowley, Conscious & Unconscious, PKD, Blogs, Yogic Gospel, Finnegans Wake, McKenna, Philosopher's Stone, Medicine, Honey, 108,2016,2012,1904, Soft Dark Age, Always Record, Sync Academy, Nazi Golfers From The Future, Panjob. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 11.29.20 Episode 356: Fall Book Club Journey To The End Of The Night For the Fall edition of the Book Club, we go on the road with Céline's 1932 classic novel, Journey To To The End Of The Night. French author Céline's works influenced a broad array of literary figures, not only in France but also in the English-speaking world and elsewhere in the Western World; this includes authors associated with modernism, existentialism, black comedy and the Beat Generation. Topics: Dark, Depression, Black Comedy, Sartre, WWI Books, Kerouac, Paranoid Attitude, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Naropa, The Beats, Ralph Manheim, Will Self, Hemingway, Kafka, America, Antiwar, Robinson, Tyler Durden, Shell Shock, Malaria, Fever, Fascism, Lost Generation, Colonialism, Johnny Truant, Lude, Misogyny, Racism, The Tunnel. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: Journey To The End Of The Night from amazon.com Read: "Céline’s Dark Journey" at nytimes.com Read: "Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature" Listen: Journey To The End Of The Night part II on AlwaysRecord Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 10.01.20 Episode 351: Summer Book Club The Tunnel Tonight, for the summer installment of the seasonal Book Club, the program considers The Tunnel, William Gass's second novel which first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, and at which time was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. It's the story of a middle aged professor who, upon the completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language. Topics: Gaddis, Gass, Postmodernism, William Kohler, Empathy, Guilt & Innocence, Web of Influence, Butterfly Effect, Joyce, Ulysses, Childhood, Perception, Uncle Balt, Shadow, Light, Truth, Beauty, Fascism, House of Leaves, Filth, Dark Thoughts, Nazis, Party of Disappointed People. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: The Tunnel from amazon.com Read: "A 1995 Novel Predicted Tump's America" from nytimes.com Listen: William Gass on Bookworm at kcrw.com Listen: The Tunnel Part II on Always Record at thesyncbook.com |
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 | FREE 06.09.20 Episode 349: Spring Book Club Canceled In the middle of a global pandemic, the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club convened on May Day (05.01.2020) to discuss informally what we could could not agree upon reading. Topics: Synchronicity, Lens, Decameron, House of Leaves, The Tunnel, Meta Text, Sex, Raunchy Sex, Trilogy of Life, MZD, DFW, In The Land of Men, Structure, #MeToo, Lude, Shakespeare, King James, Rolland Barthes, Mythologies, Quarantine, The Odyssey, Petrarch, Dante, PKD. Loading the player... |
 | Read: "Renaisasnce Man" at newyorker.com Purchase: In The Land Of Men from libro.fm Listen: House Of Leaves on Bookworm at kcrw.com |
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 | FREE 03.25.20 Episode 348: Winter Book Club House Of Leaves Recorded on Leap Day (which synchronistically was the author's original ideal pub. date in 2000), The 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club explores a house larger on the inside than on the outside, a House of Livres. Published in a full color edition by Pantheon in March of 2000, House Of Leaves was Mark Danielewski's first novel, written as an academic treatise by a blind shut in on a sensational documentary film, the manuscript of which, was later discovered and compiled and with notes by a young delinquent name Johnny Truant. Topics: House, Film, Book, Labyrinth, Infinite Jest, Avant Garde, LA, Fake News, Pelican Pen, Minotaur, Art, Literature, Jamestown, Lovecraft, Underworld, Dante, Yggdrasil, Derrida, Displaced Center, Borges, Library Of Babel, A Serious Man, 237, 48, 22, Tarot, Kabbalah. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 11.24.19 Episode 345: Fall Book Club Underworld Upon the 30th anniversary of the fall the Berlin Wall, the program celebrates this synchronistically by discussing Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece, Underworld. Topics: Pynchon, 49, Waste vs W.A.S.T.E, Interconnections, Paranoia, Secret History, DFW, Shot Hear Round The World, Cold War, 911, Consciousness, Zapruder Film, Sync Book Challenger, Revolution, NYC, Wild Style, Texas Highway Killer, Conspiracy Theory, Bleeding Edge. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 09.09.19 Episode 343: Summer Book Club The Overstory Tonight for the summer installment of the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book we speak for the trees! Or more precisely, the bookclub regulars discuss Richards Powers' 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning work of fiction, The Overstory. Topics: Richard Powers, Trees, Communication, 9, Synchronicity, Science, Gold Bug Variations, Technical Language, Humanity, Vegetable Matrix, Structure, Time & Distance, Conversion, Irony & Sincerity, Corporate America, Eco Terrorist, Sabotage, The Giving Trees, Coopition, Cell, Ovid, Mastery. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 07.15.19 Episode 339: (More) Spring Book Club Don Quixote Part II As Don Quixote was published in two parts, so too does the spring Book Club meet again to have another go at the Ingenious Gentlemen Don Quixote De La Mancha. Now with more goats! Topics: Pastoral, Goat Cheese, Synchronicity, Barry Lyndon, Edith Grossman, Empathy, Human, Humane, Humor, Advice, Violence, Censor, Third Man, Fiction, Golden Age, Multi Culti, Blood & Honor, Reality, Deep Fake, Wasteland, Poetry, Alchemy, Area X, Purity, Lothario. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: Don Quixote from amazon.com Listen: Don Quixote Part I from 42minutes.com Listen: Don Quixote Part II of Part II from Always Record Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 06.06.19 Episode 336: Spring Book Club Don Quixote Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago. Thus, the Book Club follows the adventures of this noble Hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant, reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Topics: Cervantes, Sync Borges, Nabokov, Figurants, Outside, Inside, Subject, Object, Real, Fake, Degree, Empire, Class, 1492, Inquisition, Old Christian, Converso, Occult, Astrology, Shakespeare, Magical Tradition, Translation, Truman Show, Fame, Knight Errant, King James, Enchantment, Brutality, Ego, Honor. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 03.11.19 Episode 326: Winter Book Club Collected Fictions Ficciones, the most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, was the jumping off point for the Book Club gang on this Groundhog Day to walk the forking paths. Topics: Fictions, Particular, Eternal, Dreams, Borges and I, PKD, Compression, What Is Real? Tulan, Nabokov, Arabian Nights, JW Dunne, Secret Societies, Infinity, Lovecraft, Blindness, Chess, Garden Of Forking Paths, Ada, Radical Now. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 12.11.18 Episode 320: Fall Book Club Ada, Or Ardor Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But, is much more, and thus the Book Club regulars explore this work for an Antiterran 42 minutes. Topics: Texture Of Time, Kubrick, Blade Runner, Desire, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, Venus Club, Incest, Insect, Nicest, Eden, Paradise, Infinite Jest, King Wing, Black Rainbow, Synesthesia, Third-Sight, Levitate, Terra, Innocence, Deliberate Present, Radical Surface, Freud, Tolstoy, Borges, Arcadia, Marvel, Butterfly. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 06.25.18 Episode 312: Summer Book Club Mrs. Dalloway Tonight, on Bloomsday, the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club seeks a sense of proportion in the pages of Virginia Woolf's 1925 modernist masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway. Topics: Stream Of Consciousness, Composed, WWI, Class, London, 1923, The Hours, Septimus, Connection, Nature, Sky Writing, Conversion, Colonialism, Lark, Hero's Call, Plunge, Wave, Leitmotif, The Waves, Infinite Jest, Bark, Science, Conrad, Prosody, Royal Wedding, Suicide, Joyce, Ulysses, Hostess, Have Ellen Harrison, Art, PKD. Loading the player... |
  | Purchase: Mrs. Dalloway from amazon.com Visit: Groupname For Grapejuice at blogspot.com Listen: Ulysses - 42 Minutes #278 at 42minutes.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 04.09.18 Episode 308: Spring Book Club Infinite Jest Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; So yo then man what's your story? (Or that's what the bookclub sets out to find on this April 1st, 2018) Topics: 1996, Loop, Samizdat, DMZ, NASA Cup, Wraith, Mold, Don Gately, Cheese, AZ, Trauma, Johnny Gentle, Joke, Garbage, Area X, Annular Fusion, Mad Stork, Madame Psychosis, Metempsychosis, Joyce, Filmography, End Notes, JOI, Joelle, PGOAT, Odalisque, Tennis, Structure, Post Modern, Year Of The Whopper, Experialist/Imperialist, "There", Pynchon, DeLillo, Walpurgisnacht, Year Of Glad. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 01.29.18 Episode 297: Winter Book Club The Crying Of Lot 49 Tonight the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club regulars uncover, Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas, first published in 1965. Topics: High Brow, Prose, Gravity's Rainbow, Identity, Postal Service, David Foster Wallace, Sync, Conspiracy, Inherent Vice, Code, Time, Tragedy, Bones, Meaning, California, MK Ultra, 1960s Conspiracy, Alternate Mail System, Bleeding Edge, The Information, PKD, 1904, Crowley, Horus, Revelation, The Matrix, Farina, Mason, Beatles, Jesus, Miracle. Loading the player... |
  | Purchase: The Crying Of Lot 49 from amazon.com Read: The Four Machines Of Yoyodyne from groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot |
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 | FREE 11.28.17 Episode 294: Fall Book Club The Final Dossier How's Annie? This evening the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club begins to answer that question by Returning to Twin Peaks one final time to consider Mark Frost's latest book, The Final Dossier, which acts as a bookend to the Showtime limited series and positions itself as the final word on Twin Peaks. (Show Contains Spoilers!) Topics: Twin Peaks: The Return, Mark Frost, The Archivist, Questions, Process, The Mystery, The Secret History, Retcon, Secret Diary, Fan Fiction, David Lynch, Tamara Preston, Lana, Trump, Time, Blue Rose Task Force, Albert, Leo, Ghostwood, Sabrina Sutherland, Correspondences, Interlock, Mark Lombardi, Pynchon, House Of Leaves, The Familiar, Bookworm. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: The Final Dossier from amazon.com Read: How Parts 17 & 18 Are Meant To Be Watched In Sync at Medium.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club Shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | FREE 07.11.17 Episode 281: Summer Book Club The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Fear The Double! Or so the summer installment of the seasonal Book Club finds as we meet the first Man In Black who just also happens to be from Twin Peaks, Washington. (Show contains spoilers!) Topics: Twin Peaks: The Return, Secret History, Mystery, Fan Service, Laura Palmer, David Lynch, Answers, Questions, Mark Frost, Conspiracy, Nixon, Dossier, Archivist, TP, Secret, Decoding, Veiling, Dougie Millford. Loading the player... |
 | Purchase: The Secret History of Twin Peaks from amazon.com Listen: The Secret History Part II on Always Record at thesyncbook.com Visit: Alex Fulton at thesyncbook.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | 06.21.17 Episode 278: Spring Book Club Ulysses Visit: denniskochstudio.com . . . groupnameforgrapejuice.blogspot.com . . . iahuasca.blogspot.com Bloomsday or Doomsday? Today on this 16th day of June for this our Spring installment of the seasonal Book Club, we celebrate the "Good Book to the Hibruws", Ulysses. The panel consists of Bill Klaus, Znore, and Dennis Koch. Topics: James Joyce, Bloomsday, The Odyssey, Return Home, Literature, Intellectual, Annotations, The Recognitions, Infinite Jest, Hamlet, Psychology Geography, Frank Delaney, Re:Joice, Coincidence, Human Bloom, High Brow, Everyday Heroes, 1904, Hermeticism, Hyperlocal, Kubrick, Oxen Of The Sun, Wasteland, Fertility, Narration, History. Loading the player... |
  | Listen: Ulysses Part II on Always Record at thesyncbook.com Purcase: Ulysses from amazon.com Listen: Ulysses (with full cast) at archive.org Listen: Re: Joyce from frankdelaney.com Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com |
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 | 01.02.17 Episode 255: Winter Book Club The Shining The program unmasks a Shining New Year at the Overlook Hotel with the seasonal Book Club. Topics: Jet Set, Manager Class, 1%, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rothschild, Unmask! Poe, Caretaker, Supernatural, Literary Conceit, Haunted Hotel, Sexual Overtones, Ivy League Prep, WASPS, East Coast, Redrum, Room 237, Kubrick, The Boiler, The Press, Addiction, Patriarchy, The Gold Room, Mirroring, Officious Prick, Snow Cat, Roque. Loading the player... |
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 | 11.24.16 Episode 249: Fall Book Club The Recognitions For the fourth installment of our seasonal Book Club, the program recognizes William Gaddis's first novel from 1955, The Recognitions, a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Topics: Sensitive Boy, Postwar Fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, Catch 22, Forgery, Infinite Jest, Voice, Encyclopedic Novel, Jet Set, Realism, Arrival, Crypto-Kubrology, Imagination, Man In The High Castle, Art World, Painting, Sun Worship, Golden Bough, Westworld, Player Piano, Fake, Postmodern Noise. Loading the player... |
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 | 08.08.16 Episode 238: Summer Book Club 1Q84 The program again discusses "alternate realities" for this, our third edition of the seasonal Book Club, but this time under the guise of 1Q84, Haruki Murakami's gigantic novel from 2011. Our friends of the book for this program include Talitha Wall, Dennis Koch, & SJ Anderson. Topics: 1984, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fee Collection, Domestic Abuse, Love Wins, Janacek Sinfonietta, Q's, Cults, Assassins, Literature, Synchronicity Trigger, Meaning, Tantric Sex Ritual, Italics, Two Moons, Sex & Heaviness, Little People, Healing, Brain Hemispheres, Alone or All One, Split, Justice. Loading the player... |
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 | 04.11.16 Episode 226: Spring Book Club The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation Today marks the second edition of our seasonal Book Club. This time the program discusses the first installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy--Annihilation--with members of the Always Record Bizarro Crew: Talitha Wall, Dennis Koch, & SJ Anderson. Topics: Boise Spring Sync, Treefort, Labyrinth, Contact, Area X, FL, Tower, Tunnel, Lighthouse, Lovecraft, Crawler, Toxoplasmosis, DNA, Lucifer, Ghostbird, Seance & Science Brigade, Lost, 1Q84. Loading the player... |
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 | FREE 12.07.15 Episode 208: Dennis Koch 42 Minutes Book Club: The Man In The High Castle This week sees the first installment of the 42 Minutes "Book Club". Doug and visual artist Dennis Koch discuss Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel, The Man In The High Castle. Topics: Alternate Time Lines, Interdimensional Travel, Diction, Voice, Book Vs. TV, Objects, Historicity, DFW, Infinite Jest, Forgery, Wu, Value, Art I Ching, Language, Truth. Loading the player... |
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