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Dork Matters - Kafka on the Dork

Kafka on the Dork

Dork Matters

11/24/21 • 70 min

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Lexi & Ben get literary AF with their first ever book club episode! Dork book club? Book dork club? Whatever. Listen in as they dork out about some of the formative books that made them the dorks they are today.

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Producer Jess' formative book picks and explanations:

  • Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones. I wasn't really much of a reader until I was turned on to the Harry Potter series, but this was the first book I read before even those ones that made me interested in fantasy, and was ultimately what put me on the path of being a lifelong book lover (Gail Carson Levine also falls under this umbrella as another kickass fairytale fantasy writer)
  • A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews. I think YA is grossly underrated and books like this prove that; I also think the idea that YA has to have a happy ending is ridiculous and this is a book that proves that because it's decidedly melancholic throughout all the way to the end (but honestly that is how teenagerdom felt for me, so I appreciate that)
  • Nightwood, Djuna Barnes. From a stylistic perspective it's unlike any other book I've ever read (it's a story wi...

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11/24/21 • 70 min

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