“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you’re sad. And there are books for when you’re happy. There are books for when you’re thirsty for knowledge. And there are books for when you’re desperate.”

--Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

Welcome to Desperate Readers

How does literature speak through time and space? How can the western canon and world literature come together?

In each episode, Niko and Tatiana read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical Western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions.

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