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The Big Book Project is a multi-venue reading experience for bibliophiles fascinated by long or dense works of fiction and interested in discussing them with others, one novel at a time. The works selected will be capacious novels from the mid-nineteenth century through today that possess an abundant writing style or complexity in structure and themes. The notion that reading need not be a solitary activity has special resonance with these novels given that there is much to discuss, elaborate upon and question in the authors’ expression of ideas. I like to think of these novels as abundant because I appreciate their richness and volume, characteristics bestow a sort of grace to luxuriate with the text. The critic and scholar Alexander Nehamas writes that when a work of art beckons, it is because we do not fully understand it but feel the strong desire to do so. And it is this deliberative process, the journey, of trying to understand why a
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Big Book Project is a multi-venue reading experience for bibliophiles fascinated by long or dense works of fiction and interested in discussing them with others, one novel at a time. The works selected will be capacious novels from the mid-nineteenth century through today that possess an abundant writing style or complexity in structure and themes.
The Big Book Project is hosted by Lori Feathers. The show has published 39 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Compass by Mathias Énard with Translator Charlotte Mandell" (30 October 2026, 51 minutes), "Stories Like Illnesses, with James Elkins" (18 September 2026, 58 minutes), and "The Latin American Tradition of Voracious Reader-Writers" (2 September 2026, 66 minutes).
The Big Book Project publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 39 episodes.
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Lori Feathers hosts The Big Book Project, an arts podcast with 39 episodes published.
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Compass by Mathias Énard, from the inside: translator Charlotte Mandell joins Lori Feathers to talk about inhabiting Franz Ritter's sleepless mind and carrying Énard's digressive prose into English. Charlotte has...
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James Elkins returns to the show for his third visit to talk with Lori about Stories Like Illnesses , out October 6 from Unnamed Press. It is the first book or volume of his Five Strange Languages novel ( though the...
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Anxieties of Experience , with Professor Jeffrey Lawrence Lori talks with scholar, translator, and novelist Professor Jeffrey Lawrence about his book Anxieties of Experience:The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman...
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Translator David McKay returns to the show fifteen months after his last visit when we discussed Daanje's The Remembered Soldier , which would go on to win the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize. McKay's latest...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject Lori is joined by Jose Vergara, Associate Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College, for a deep dive on Sasha Sokolov, the great destabilizing stylist of Soviet literature and a...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject https://www.instagram.com/thebigbookproject/ Novel Explosives by Jim Gauer is a 700 page novel about a man who wakes in Guanajuato, Mexico, with his knowledge intact but no memory...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject Effingers by Gabriele Tergit is an 800-page German Jewish family saga published by New York Review of Books Classics, and this week NYRB publicist Nick During joins me to talk...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject Effingers by Gabriele Tergit is an 800-page German Jewish family saga published by New York Review of Books Classics, and this week NYRB publicist Nick During joins me to talk...
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Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a puzzling novel, and in this episode of The Big Book Project host Lori Feathers and guest Chad W. Post take on the first two hundred pages featuring an unreliable narrator, an unorthodox...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject (Lori recorded this interview on a different device, and we apologize for the poor quality of her audio.) For five decades Steven Moore has been one of the most thoughtful...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject Watch the full episode on youtube: As we continue reading The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Richard Bailey joins me to talk about Part Two of the novel. Richard is my...
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The name Fernando Del Paso was new to me two and a half years ago when author, publisher, and Dalkey Archive Press alum Martin Riker introduced me to Palinuro of Mexico . What a revelation this late Mexican novelist...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject Chad W. Post, publisher at Open Letter Books and translation studies instructor at the University of Rochester joins Lori Feathers on The Big Book Project to discuss the first 145...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is too much—too many characters, too many plot points, too much chaos—and that’s exactly what makes it extraordinary. In this episode of The Big Book...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow rewards readers willing to move inward — into the psychological depths of a single family across three generations — rather than outward toward the...
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William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses is one of those novels that resists easy summary — and that resistance is precisely what makes it so worth discussing. In this episode of The Big Book Project, host Lori Feathers is...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject In this episode of The Big Book Project, Lori Feathers is joined by translator Ursula Phillips to discuss her extraordinary translation of Ice, the monumental, genre-defying novel...
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In this episode of The Big Book Project , Lori sits down with novelist and philosopher Mark de Silva to explore his monumental 2022 novel The Logos — a thousand-page meditation on art, perception, capitalism, and the...
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In this final discussion of Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, Lori is joined once again by Dr. Larry Allums to close out one of the most haunting and inexhaustible novels in American literature. Together, they...
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https://substack.com/@thebigbookproject In this episode of The Big Book Project , Lori Feathers and Dr. Larry Allums delve into Chapter 7 of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! —one of the novel’s most intricate and...
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