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Mouthful of Birds
Kirsty & Carissa pack some feathered snacks and go on a journey through Samanta Schweblin's spooky, surrealist, feminine focused story collection.Topic:Mouthful of Birds by Samanta SchweblinTheme
Interior Chinatown
Enter Carissa & Kirsty - into a film, or is it reality, or is it a book, about how family and society contributes to the things you want to be and the things you are.Topic:Interior Chinatown by Ch
Watchmen
Carissa & Kirsty don their capes and enter an iconic multimedia graphic novel universe where nuclear armageddon looms and everyone kind of sucks!Topic:Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsTheme:
Anna Karenina (2012)
Kirsty & Carissa enjoy an unfairly maligned, highly stylized film adaptation of Tolstoy's classic romance/tragedy/political criticism, featuring many hot people, much gossip, the theatricality of pass
Life & Death
Kirsty & Carissa dive into some classic American poetry about aging, living, and dying. What more is there to say? You'll have to listen to find out.Topic:Life & Death by Robert CreeleyTheme: "Ma
Henna Wars
Kirsty & Carissa dive into teen competition, appropriation, and queer romance in this fun YA drama.Topic:Henna Warsby Adiba JaigirdarTheme: "Make It Ours" by Evermore
School of Rock (2003)
Listen. Sometimes you've just got to stick it to the man and rock out, dude. Let's discuss why this movie holds up better than almost any other.Topic:School of Rock (2003), dir. Richard Linklater
The Scarlet Letter
intrigue! moralistic judgment! witchcraft??? You guys know this one. Let's get silly.Topic:The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneTheme: "Make It Ours" by Evermore
Normal People
Kirsty & Carissa follow a tumultuous relationship over several years as Marianne & Connell deal with trauma, social status, and Being Irish.Topic:Normal People by Sally RooneyTheme: "Make It Ours
A Handful of Blue Earth
Kirsty & Carissa dive into this translation of Lebanese poetry to discuss the blending of various traditions, legends, and truths.Topic:A Handful of Blue Earth by Vnus Khoury-GhataTheme: "Make I