<p>This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a bunch of monks sitting around copying stuff. Jelani Sims returns to discuss Walter M. Miller Jr.&#8217;s <em>A Canticle for Leibowitz</em> (1959).</p>
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<p>John McCoy  with Jelani Sims</p>

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      <h4><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/topics/post-830/" class="link">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a></h4>
      
     
    
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     <h4><a href="https://archive.org/details/NPRPresentsACANTICLEFORLIEBOWITZIn15Parts" class="link" target="_blank">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a></h4>
     <p>The Internet Archive has all episodes of the 15-part NPR Playhouse adaptation which aired in 1981.</p>

    
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162: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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!