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]
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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 score: 6.75* Score reflects limits of MOTS system in this case, as expanded upon in episode]
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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: 8]
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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
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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]
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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]
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Literature: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
TLS reviews a classic Dahl story while enjoying their favorite meal– delicious irony.
[Aggregate score: 8]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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