82: Apocalypse Book Club

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2012

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It’s the end of the world! And since our eyeglasses are intact, we have time enough at last, to read. We discuss Maureen McHugh’s “After the Apocalypse” short-story collection, Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” and other apocalypse tales we have known. Do zombies have their own David Attenborough, leading expeditions into Cleveland? Why should you be afraid if heavy snowfall combines with the appearance of strange invisible magic ghost sex-dragon monsters? And why does John Siracusa plan to ride out the apocalypse in style? We ask several of these questions, but you’ll have to listen to see if we ever answer any of them.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 82, March 2012.
0:12.3	Welcome back to The Incomparable Podcast. We are so glad to have you join us because, quite frankly, we're all quite depressed because we read lots of books about the end
0:22.1	of the world. I am your host, Jason Snell. This is a new edition of our book club and our primary
0:28.4	book club selection today is a short story collection by Maureen McHugh called After the Apocalypse.
0:35.3	It's a collection of, looks like nine maybe short stories that generally involve horrible
0:40.5	things happening to the world and society.
0:42.9	Ten short stories, I believe.
0:44.5	Nice, even ten, involving miserable things happening to miserable people.
0:48.8	And then to throw in other things, we'll talk about other kind of apocalyptic end of
0:53.0	the world kind of literature as we go.
0:55.6	Joining me on this most up with people of podcasts.
1:00.6	Lisa Schmeiser, hi Lisa.
1:02.6	Hi, Lisa.
1:03.5	Also Scott McNulty.
1:04.8	Hi, Scott.
1:05.6	Hello.
1:06.5	Is the world still there where you are?
1:08.8	Well, who knows?
1:10.5	Philadelphia, you can never tell. That's pretty much the end of the world anyway. And you are? Well, who knows? Philadelphia, you can never tell.
1:11.8	That's pretty much the end of the world anyway. And John Syracusa. Hi, John. I find the end of
1:16.9	the world exhilarating. Maybe I'm the only one. That's because you hate everything.
1:22.5	I don't know. Maybe that could be it. It's possible. That's one possible scenario.
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