our season on the internet continues with literally show me a healthy person by darcie wilder. joey is joined by “the man with no name,” and we begin by dissecting his way of listening to our show before declaring we’re a tub talk recap podcast now. we discuss how the novel is a narrative of a frame of mind (and how that’s tied to the internet), what reading this book feels like, and the book’s humor and its profound sadness. we talk about the global thoughts darcie hits on and how it (maybe!) informs who she (the writer) is. we break down the grammar of the internet and being good at twitter and talk about seeing a familiar type of writing in an unexpected place. bob brags about his many online friends and compliments the novel’s immaculate structure.
reading list for season three
a touch of jen by beth morgan
the shore by katie runde
literally show me a healthy person by darcie wilder
17776 by jon bois
snow crash by neal stephenson
no one is talking about this by patricia lockwood
amygdalatropolis by b r yeager
shitstorm by fernando sdrigotti
things have gotten worse since we last spoke by eric larocca
liveblog by megan boyle
neuromancer by william gibson
fake accounts by lauren oyler
we had to remove this post by hanna bervoets