Ep 240 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao earned Junot Díaz a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and it remains one of the most highly regarded novels of our young 21st century.
Oscar Wao is a Dominican lad who loves geekery almost as much as he loves women. The only trouble is: he just can't get any.
Tune in for a discussion of (toxic) masculinity, nerd alerts, and the Dominican Republic under the rule of El Jefe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
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| 0:57.0 | Yourself you start using them. |
| 0:59.0 | I don't really hear that much from you about them anymore. |
| 1:02.8 | We could talk about that. |
| 1:04.0 | We could talk about the changing tastes of someone who comes in to two monitors, after |
| 1:09.0 | only having one monitor for so long. |
| 1:13.0 | Here's the thing about having two monitors is it's twice as many monitors. |
| 1:19.2 | Welcome To Overte that's podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read. |
| 1:22.7 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:24.1 | Has Andrew come in? |
| 1:26.1 | This week we're gonna be talking about the brief wondrous life of Oscar Wow by Juno D.S. |
| 1:32.1 | Wow. Oscar Wow. Wow. |
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