Send us a text This month’s book up for discussion involves one of the strangest novels to ever be featured on Just In Case We Die. It’s a crass, vulgar, and irreverent commentary on American media wrapped up in a misguided and confounding allegory written by an Australian author who somehow managed to beat Booker Prize-stalwart Margaret Atwood for Britain’s most distinguished literary prize. Confusion aside, this is a really good novel that made the cast laugh, think, and shake their b...
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Send us a text This month’s book up for discussion involves one of the strangest novels to ever be featured on Just In Case We Die. It’s a crass, vulgar, and irreverent commentary on American media wrapped up in a misguided and confounding allegory written by an Australian author who somehow managed to beat Booker Prize-stalwart Margaret Atwood for Britain’s most distinguished literary prize. Confusion aside, this is a really good novel that made the cast laugh, think, and shake their b...
#409 "In The First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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#409 "In The First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Send us a text In 1967, Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn edited his new novel down from 96 chapters to 87 chapters in the hopes that a censored version would be more palatable to Soviet publishers. It was not. In 1968, he was able to successfully get the novel published in Europe. It was, however, the shortened 87-chapter version. In 1978, the full unedited version was finally published in Russia. A full English translation would not land in America until 2009. In 2025, seeing that In Th...
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Send us a text This month’s book up for discussion involves one of the strangest novels to ever be featured on Just In Case We Die. It’s a crass, vulgar, and irreverent commentary on American media wrapped up in a misguided and confounding allegory written by an Australian author who somehow managed to beat Booker Prize-stalwart Margaret Atwood for Britain’s most distinguished literary prize. Confusion aside, this is a really good novel that made the cast laugh, think, and shake their b...
