we close out our first season -- on processing pain, the ways we've hurt people, and how we've been hurt -- with kazuo ishiguro's never let me go, and we wonder: just how depressing has this season been, really? we talk about the book's lack of irony (and the reasoning behind it), its understated major reveals, and the two things the book is "really" about. we also talk about how never let me go is basically caddyshack and wonder whether or not ruth gets redeemed before bob reveals his death bed plan.
reading list for season one
death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh, 6/3
pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier, 6/17
you shall know our velocity by dave eggers, 7/1
memories of my father watching tv by curtis white, 7/15
a prayer for owen meany by john irving, 7/29
colorless tsukuru tazaki by haruki murakami, 8/12
any man by amber tamblyn, 8/26
ducks, newburyport by lucy ellmann, 9/9
open city by teju cole, 9/23
never let me go by kazuo ishiguro, 10/7