The Shining – Novel by Stephen King + Stanley Kubrick Film – Halloween Special | Episode 040

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This year’s annual Halloween Special is a double-parked megasode featuring all things “The Shining”! The panel’s trifecta discussion includes the novel by Stephen King as well as the classic Stanley Kubrick film, before finishing strong with...

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(The Real) Twilight by Elie Wiesel | Episode 039

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In a memorial tribute to Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, who passed away this past July, the panel tackles his 1988 novel Twilight. Elie Wiesel spent his life being an exemplary spokesman for those who lived through...

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Reading Them Anyway – Banned Books Week 2016 | Episode 038

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Read a banned book today! Once again breaking traditional episode format, Infinite Gestation celebrates Banned Books Week with three short segments on Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath and Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 respectively, followed by...

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Don Quixote de la Mancha – Celebrating 400 Years of Miguel de Cervantes | Episode 036

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In this anniversary year of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, Infinite Gestation discusses the possible reasons for the timelessness of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Though four hundred years has passed since...

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Dystopian Novel Series Part II – Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne | Episode 035

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Special guest Matt Bird joins the panel as Infinite Gestation continues its Dystopian Novel Series with Paris in the Twentieth Century – the “lost novel” by Jules Verne. Though completed in 1863, the work remained unpublished...

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Dystopian Novel Series Part I – We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | Episode 034

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Beginning with praise, transitioning to criticism and ultimately reaching a state of forgiveness, the panel embarks upon its ongoing Dystopian Novel Series with the granddaddy of the dystopian novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. (Coincidentally recorded on the podcast’s one year anniversary)....

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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan | Episode 033

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Infinite Gestation gets A Visit from the Goon Squad on this episode covering Jennifer Egan’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. The book stands more as a study on the emotional effects...

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11.22.63 By Stephen King – Novel + Miniseries | Episode 032

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Patrick and Grant take on Stephen King’s 11/22/63 as well as the Hulu miniseries of the same name. Best described as literary fiction with elements of science fiction and the supernatural (as only Stephen King...

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler … Three Guys Discuss a Novel – Italo Calvino | Episode 031

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Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler is in a class of its own. This postmodern exploration of the novel contains substantial sections written in the second person (yes, SECOND person), so that...

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Pat on Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck | Episode 030

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John Steinbeck’s fifth novel, In Dubious Battle, marks a radical shift in the author’s work while serving as an interesting precursor to The Grapes of Wrath. Essentially concerned with the labor struggles of exploited fruit pickers, the novel illustrates the emergence...

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