Ep 242 - Felidae, by Akif Pirinçci (Bonus Episode)
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This month, we read the first book in Akif Pirinçci’s “Felidae” series. It’s a “bestselling novel of cats and murder,” and it combines over-the-top violence that makes Watership Down look like a book that’s actually appropriate for children. It’s also just surreal enough to be a lot of fun.
That said, the book’s author, Akif Pirinçci, espouses some truly vile views about immigration and Muslims—he’s referred to Germany as a “Muslim garbage dump” and has made jokes about sending Muslims to concentration camps. We can’t stress enough how deeply we disagree with these viewpoints, and we spend a bit of time in the episode talking about whether and how to separate art from the artists that made it. There are no good answers, but know that we did purchase a used copy of this book, partly because it’s out of print but also because we don’t want to provide financial support to anyone who says these kinds of things.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody Craig here, I just wanted to say hi before the show started. |
| 0:04.1 | When we recorded this episode we had not finalized all of the details for our live show in Boston on July 15th. |
| 0:13.8 | So I wanted you to know about that. |
| 0:15.8 | We're doing a live show in Boston on July 15th with our friends Christina and Camille of the unfriendly Black Hotties. |
| 0:24.2 | So it's going to be at the PRX podcast garage which is an awesome space. |
| 0:29.0 | I think doors open at 6.30, show begins at 7. |
| 0:32.8 | You can find out more at bit.ly slash overdue hotties. |
| 0:39.5 | That is bit.ly slash overdue hotties. |
| 0:46.0 | So we hope that you can join us. |
| 0:47.6 | We'd love to see you there. |
| 0:50.6 | Go to that website and roll that said enjoy our bonus episode. |
| 1:00.7 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 1:04.4 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
| 1:09.7 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 1:15.1 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 1:20.6 | Hey everybody welcome to overdue. |
| 1:40.0 | This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 1:43.6 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:44.4 | My name is Andrew and this is our May bonus episode. |
| 1:48.9 | So we are recording live in sunny Google hangouts hanging out. |
| 1:55.5 | It's actually really rainy and filled up. |
| 1:57.1 | It's really gross. |
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