Upper Middlebrow
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Episode 61: “Mathematical” Courage or Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner Part II
After Dukes summarizes the plot of Beverly Hills Cop for Bagg, the UMBs get down to business. The second half of The Kite Runner fulfills its promises....
Episode 60: “Zero Sum Narrative,” or Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
Bagg and Dukes haven’t read this 2003 bestseller, and confess to a little snobbishness about a book that is ubiquitous at airport books stores. But…it's...
Episode 59: “The Bathetic Fallacy,” or Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
The UMBers tackle Ray Bradbury’s 1950s classic novella and are impressed by how much influence this book has had on other writers and the intellectual...
Episode 58: “The Deus is in the Details,” or Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Part II
The lads marvel at Margaret Atwood’s delicate prose and “lighter than air” narrative, in which sparse poetic writing conveys an alternative future...
Episode 57: “Highest Stakes Scrabble,” or Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Part I
The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a speculative near future that feels disturbingly familiar. The lads marvel at Atwood’s ability to vividly describe...
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