The Big Read Cast
The Big Read Cast
Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
Reading too widely and talking too seriously.
Year in Reading: 2025
Bill and Joel read a lot of books in 2025! They talked about them while drinking beer and bourbon the other day, and you can listen to that conversation here!
Jan 15
2 hr 45 min
Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)
Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025) by Joel Cuthbertson and Bill Coberly
Nov 7, 2025
2 hr
Episode Twenty-Seven: An Instance of the Fingerpost (June 2025)
Joel and Bill read Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, a Rashomon-like murder mystery set in late 17th century Oxford that goes some very fun places!
Jun 10, 2025
1 hr 29 min
Episode Twenty-Six: The Enchantments of Mammon (February 2025)
Bill and Joel read through Eugene McCarraher's anti-capitalist tome The Enchantments of Mammon, and only end up preaching a little bit!
Feb 18, 2025
1 hr 28 min
Year in Reading: 2024
Joel and Bill go through most of the books they read in 2024!
Jan 20, 2025
1 hr 35 min
Episode Twenty-Five: The Chronicles of Amber: The Corwin Cycle (October 2024)
Bill and Joel take a bunch of LSD and go to the Ren Faire. Or they read the first cycle in Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber. Same difference, really.
Oct 22, 2024
1 hr 31 min
Guest Read Episode Four - Cahokia Jazz (July 2024)
Bill and Joel are joined once again by the great Phil Christman for a guest podcast, this one about Cahokia Jazz, the alternate-history noir written by the incomparable Francis Spufford!
Jul 9, 2024
1 hr 40 min
Episode Twenty-Four: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (April 2024)
Joel and Bill wade through Laurence Sterne's wild and digressive masterpiece, and do their best not to get distracted throughout.
Apr 24, 2024
1 hr 27 min
Year in Reading: 2023
Joel and Bill discuss the books they read in 2023 and some plans for 2024!
Jan 29, 2024
1 hr 24 min
Episode Twenty-Three: Religio Medici & Urne-Buriall (November 2023)
Bill and Joel read a small but dense text: two essays by 17th-century doctor, philosopher, writer, and weirdo Sir Thomas Browne!
Nov 1, 2023
1 hr 46 min
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