In this episode, the Spine Crackers are joined by Daniel of the Viva La Dude podcast to discuss legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's first and only novel, and the basis for his 1980 cult classic film, Altered States (1978)! Go ape!
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Bernard Malamud - The Natural (feat. Nate of Books You Haven't Read)
Nicholson Baker - Vox
The Third Annual Spine Crackers Year-in-Review Awards Spectacular (2023 Edition)
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
Kenzaburō Ōe - The Silent Cry
David Duchovny - Truly Like Lightning (feat. Patrick Willems)
Stefan Zweig - Chess Story
William Gaddis - Agapē Agape (feat. Book Shore)
Tarjei Vesaas - The Birds
Emil Ferris - My Favorite Thing is Monsters
William Faulkner - Big Woods: The Hunting Stories
Don DeLillo - Libra
George Sand - Indiana
William T. Vollmann - The Atlas
The Second Annual Spine Crackers End of Year Roundup Spectacular (2022)!
Nicholas Mosley - Impossible Object
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room FEAT @Juliemichellereads
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
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