<p>Gregor&#8217;s mother warned him about days like this. Jason Snell discusses Franz Kafka&#8217;s inescapable novella, <em>The Metamorphosis</em> (1915).</p>
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<p>John McCoy  with Jason Snell</p>

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      <h4><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/topics/post-578/" class="link">The Metamorphosis</a></h4>
      
     
    
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     <h4><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis" class="link" target="_blank">Wikipedia entry for The Metamorphosis</a></h4>
     
    
     <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaaF83eVig" class="link" target="_blank">Kafka rock opera from Home Movies</a></h4>
     
    
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130: Epic of Gilgamesh

John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!