You know you should read James Joyce's Ulysses. But do you want to read it? Yes, yes you do. Or you will, after you hear Lance and L.B. interview journalist and master of English literature Jody Seaborn about the Irish masterpiece. 

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Episode 34: Jody Seaborn on Ulysses

Theater and film impresario Jason Neulander discusses his favorite book, Dostoevsky's masterpiece Demons. What has a novel of violent revolution set in 19th Century Russia to teach us about the United States in the 21st Century?

Episode 33: Jason Neulander on Dostoevsky's Demons

Writer Olive Balla returns to talk to Lance and L.B. about her latest crime thriller, Code Murder, as well as her previous works. 

Episode 32: Olive Balla on Code Murder

Lance and L.B. welcome Austin Chronicle arts editor and Texas legend Robert Faires to discuss a book he's loved since he was a kid: Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. 

Episode 31: Robert Faires on Something Wicked This Way Comes

Arts and entertainment editor and book critic Jody Seaborn comes on board to discuss the Lawrence Stern masterpiece The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. It’s a pre-modern postmodern novel of wit, style, humor and feeling. 

Episode 30: Jody Seaborn on Tristram Shandy

The astonishing woman of the theater Beth Burns leads Lance and L.B. through the history and meaning of Arden of Faversham, an Elizabethan true-crime tragicomedy likely penned, at least in part, by none other than William Shakespeare. 

Episode 29: Beth Burns on Arden of Faversham

Author, comic, filmmaker, showman and genius Owen Egerton comes on board for a live interview about Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions. 

Episode 28: Owen Egerton on Breakfast of Champions

Guest hosts David Moses Fruchter and W. Joe Hoppe interview L.B. Deyo about his novel, The God-Damn Fool.

Episode 27: L.B. Deyo on The God-Damn Fool

Austin stage star Web Jerome shares her obsession with George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, the books that inspired the HBO show Game of Thrones. 

Episode 26: Web Jerome on A Song of Ice and Fire

Kaci Beeler isn't one to limit herself to a genre, a medium, or a subject. Lance and L.B. had her on to discuss her plays, including Killer Girls and Subject to Control, but inevitably the interview touched on her painting, her design, her acting, improvisation, direction, and much more. 

Episode 25: Kaci Beeler on her plays

The Silmarillion is the Bible of Middle Earth, and Daniel Mennega is our guide through the rarified heights and terrifying depths of Tolkien's mythology. L.B. is joined by special guest host Union Brooks. 

Episode 24: Daniel Mennega on The Silmarillion

Philosophy, love, history, love, betrayal, tyranny, art, weight, and lightness. These and other themes, torn from the pages of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, animate Lance and L.B.'s discussion with theater star Kelli Bland.

Episode 23: Kelli Bland on the Unbearable Lightness of Being

Can a person evolve? Does true love ever stop a man from pursuing his destiny? Is there gold in them thar hills? Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist raises these and other questions. But for the answers, Lance and L.B. turn to none other than Wild Bill, Austin's preeminent rock 'n roll impresario, composer and performer. 

Episode 22: Wild Bill on The Alchemist

Sometimes the hippest novel of the year is actually an innovative, devastating memoir. Philosopher, shoot fighter and rock hero Mocha Washburn talks about Dave Eggers' legendary debut, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Episode 21: Mocha Washburn on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

President Bill Clinton called John Rawls "perhaps the greatest political philosopher of the twentieth century" because of the ideas contained in Rawls' book A Theory of Justice. Author, Legislative Director and master showman Mike O'Connor shares his expertise on the book and pulls back L.B. and Lance's veil of ignorance. 

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