You're listening to All The More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds.

I'm your host, Vanessa Diaz.

This episode is airing on Friday, August 29th.

And today I'm going to tell you about two of my favorite books that are set in the world of academia. I feel like this is a topic that I'm sure I or somebody else has covered a few times, but I wanted to discuss it today because two of my most anticipated books of 2025 that are also set in the world of academia are out now, and they both really lived up to the hype, and it just kind of got me on the academia train all over again. Those books, which I will tell you very briefly about,

are Catalysis by R.F. Kwong and the Bewitching by Celia Moreno Garcia. Catapacus is about

two Cambridge students who lose their professor, their, like, advisor when he dies under some

really interesting circumstances, and then decide to journey into hell using magic, because that is what they are studying, magic with

a K at the end, the good hell to go bring him back also for reasons. And it's just a ride of

math and magic and philosophy and an evisceration of the like institution that is academia. So go

read that. And if you want to hear me wax on about

that one for a little bit with Rebecca and Jeff, go listen to the Book Club episode of the Book

Riot podcast that just came out this week about R of Kwong's catapasus. The second pick is,

or the second book that made me want to talk about academia, is The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno

Garcia, which is about a grad student at a New England university who's studying the life of kind of an obscure female horror writer.

And in doing so, discovers this interesting case around like a missing person that disappeared from that same university that the student is now at in the life of that horror writer

and how that connects to a story from her lineage from her great grandmother back in rural

Mexico. And that through line, by the way, is something, something witchy, as the title might

have implied. But those books were really fantastic. And again, just sort of reignited my

interest in going back and spending more time

with books that are set in academia. And that's why I'm going to tell you about both of today's

picks. But before I do that, let's hear from our sponsor.

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