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Podcast: how to win the lottery: a book club podcast
Episode: open city by teju cole
Description: we’re nearing the end of the first season of the podcast, and with open city by teju cole, we’ve reached out first real widespread difference of opinion. open city was a polarizing book when bob taught it in his classes, and it leads to a discussion here around the influences of guy debord, the anti-identity of the protagonist, the discrepancy on display between high and low culture, and what a movie adaptation of this book would look like if it starred mr. bean. we then call the honorable judge matt erdely for his ruling on the cover before j...