Ep 255 - 10:04, by Ben Lerner (Bonus Episode)
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 is about a man named Ben trying to write a novel. Yes, it's meta. Yes, it can get navel-gazey. But there's an underlying humanity and economy that keeps the book afloat.
Discussion topics include gatekeeping, listening, dinosaurs, and superstorms.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | We could talk about bugs. |
| 0:46.3 | Talks about talking about bugs. |
| 0:47.2 | I hate bugs. |
| 0:48.2 | I've killed so many bugs just today. |
| 0:50.4 | Only today I went downstairs to get this beer that I got and my little net trap had |
| 0:57.5 | got an ad already. |
| 0:58.5 | Oh man. |
| 0:59.5 | Can you see it in there? |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, it's just drought. |
| 1:02.7 | You want to know how it works? |
| 1:04.1 | Is it a bottle with a paper funnel in it? |
| 1:09.1 | That's one way you can do it. |
| 1:10.2 | My way is if anything, even more ingenious, is you put in some water and some apple cider |
| 1:17.5 | vinegar and a little sugar into a bowl and you mix it all together, then you put a little |
| 1:21.9 | bit of soap in there. |
| 1:22.9 | Just a little bit of soap in there. |
| 1:25.8 | The nats are like, this smells good because it smells like rotten fruit kind of a little. |
| 1:31.1 | They fly on up to it and they're like, yeah, I'll just land on this water and I'll drink |
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