Every week, we'll discuss a different book. The setting is casual and the words are inappropriate, but we'll always tell it how it is.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEvery week, we'll discuss a different book. The setting is casual and the words are inappropriate, but we'll always tell it how it is.
Recent episodes include "Episode 113: Pachinko" (28 May 2026, 85 minutes), "Episode 112: The Women of Wild Hill" (20 May 2026, 75 minutes), and "Episode 111: The Dinner" (13 May 2026, 75 minutes).
Literal Neighbors publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 70 minutes across 113 episodes.
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Literal Neighbors is an arts show with 113 episodes published.
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Episode #113
<p>This week, we read Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, a multigenerational story that (episode spoiler ahead!) one reviewer thinks we get way too intimate with. We ruminate over the mafia, discuss caring for permanently injured...
Episode #112
<p>This week, we read Kirsten Miller's The Women of Wild Hill, and this is a rare occasion where both the one- and five-star reviews make the book sound equally appealing. We're also discussing the housekeeping tactics...
Episode #111
<p>This week, we're digesting Herman Koch's The Dinner, and we're just wondering exactly how long a Dutch dinner is. Long enough for some field trips, flashbacks, and lots of pinky-pointing, and after all that, we...
Episode #110
<p>This week, we read Esi Edugyan's Washington Black, and if you've ever thought that stories about enslaved boys in the 1800s really needed some more scenes of the Arctic circle, we have great news for you. We're...
Episode #109
<p>Listen, some people can get a burger when they were expecting pizza and still really, really enjoy the burger. Some people will have pizza or nothing. So if you pick up this 'lesbian vampire drama' and expect to have...
Episode #108
<p>Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang has some surprises in it, but perhaps the biggest surprises are our coverage of math and spelling this week. We're also discussing the amenities in our recording space, surprising...
Episode #107
<p>This week we revisited old friend of the pod Gabrielle Zevin, and read The Storied Life of AJ Fikry. This book has us learning New England geography, some music history, and a little bit about the Marvel universe...
Episode #106
<p>This week we're talking about Lisa Ko's The Leavers, work mistakes, being too silly, and the merits of layered tops. We'll meander through our thoughts about this book and the characters, their actions (or lack...
Episode #103
<p>Come sit by the fountain, we need to bestow our thoughts onto you about Allan Levi's Theo of Golden. We're going to sketch out our feelings about it for you, and we ain't holding back, so grab a cup of the best...
Episode #103
<p>This week, we read Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, and we are really digging around for some levity, so we really want to point out that greeting people across a large space with your hands raised in a...
Episode #102
<p>Get in the spaceship, loser, we're going to save Earth! This week we went along for a long, treacherous ride with Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. We're making friends, doing science, and debating how much we'd fail at...
Episode #102
<p>Kazuo Ishiguro brings us into the mind of an artificial friend with Klara and the Sun, and we have some lingering questions about this world we're looking into. What does it mean to be lifted? What are we saying...
Episode #100
<p>Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran has us talking about how insane it is that far less than half the people can decide how a country can be run, to the detriment of pretty much everyone -- seems bizarre...
Episode #100
<p>This week we're celebrating our 100th episode! We have games, we have snacks, and we almost have an idea of the books we've read for these last 100 episodes! Join us as we try to remember some of our past books, see...
Episode #99
<p>We finished up Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl this week, and who knew we'd be talking about Doritos two weeks in a row? The biggest lesson we've learned in this second half is that everyone is garbage, and lots of people...
Episode #98
<p>Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl is half over, and while we aren't totally sure how we feel, we know one thing: Nick is gross. We have thoughts about his grossness, frito pie, Cheba Hut, and so much more this week, so...
Episode #97
<p>Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men has left us with, conservatively, approximately one million questions, and we couldn't be happier to get into the non-existent weeds with everyone about them. From talk...
Episode #96
<p>Today we're celebrating two years of reading books together! We're giving you a recap of the books we've read this 'semester' and deciding how they've aged in the last week. If there's anything we've learned from...
Episode #95
<p>This week, Taylor Jenkins Reid brings us the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo...and with that many spouses, we obviously have to spend some time on some 'bedroom' talk. We're contemplating what a world with a closeted...
Episode #94
<p>New year, new illnesses, and a new take on last week's book topic! This week, we read Mineko Iwasaki's not-quite-clapback to last week's book with her Geisha, A Life. We're talking about what we learned, what we...
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