Cracked Spines
Crack open a good book with two wise-cracking besties. Sarah and Cyrus are two queer English majors who use their degrees to commit crimes against literature.
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Podcasting since 2017 • 145 episodes
Cracked Spines
Latest Episodes
Animorphs Part 7: Put Him In The Horse Plinko
Cyrus and Sarah are back at it again in the Animorphs mines, this time covering books thirty-four through thirty-seven, and things are getting....well, kind of mid, to be honest. Except for the torture. The torture is great. Dive in to hear our...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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53:53
Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China by C.P. Fitzgerald (and other books on Chinese history)
This week on Cracked Spines, Cyrus and Sarah dive into Sarah's latest obsession with Chinese history, cracking open several books by...mostly white authors in the 60's-80's. Okay, so it may not be an scholastically accurate or ethical deep dive...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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1:00:38
Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
Say "I do" to checking out this weeks episode on Marriage, A History by Stephanie Coontz! See, I did a wedding pun, this description writing stuff is easy. Cyrus and Sarah tackle nonfiction this episode, and have a rollicking discussion about m...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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46:46
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
It's finally happening - Cyrus and Sarah have finally read The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson! Turns out they loved it, but isn't that always the way with books you've been putting off? Baru Cormorant is a twisty turny hard fantasy no...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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50:40
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Did you know it's really hard to write jokes about books with central themes of racism? Cyrus and Sarah find this out while covering Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, an epic historical fiction novel about the the 20th century Korean experience of Japan...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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44:47