the next stop on our un/adaptable module is continues with the raw shark texts by steven hall. joey is joined by a guy named gary, who arrives with special instructions from tulsa… and we need your help! after checking on what macaulay culkin is up to — and taking a brief sidebar to talk about area legend miss cleo — we wonder why there are so many amnesia stories and whether or not naming a character scout is a direct or indirect reference to to kill a mockingbird. we talk about the novels’ conceptual shark and the concrete poetry on display, and we discuss whether or not it’s truly unadaptable. (spoiler: probably not.) we examine the benefit of not saving the “twist” for the end of the story and talk about the “un-chapters” that steven hall wrote. joey once again references the fast and the furious. we shout out friend of the pod megan boyle and LIVEBLOG 2023. the honorable judge matt erdely returns to judge a book by its cover. egg reveals her egg bias in an email. we try to make monopoly into a british game.

reading list for season five
the zone of interest by martin amis
underworld by don delillo
eileen by ottessa moshfegh
speedboat by renata adler
memory by donald westlake
blood and guts in high school by kathy acker
project hail mary by andy weir
the raw shark texts by steven hall
crying in h mart by michelle zauner
wittgenstein’s mistress by david markson
nightbitch by rachel yoder
infinite jest by david foster wallace