American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

In this episode, we look at "What the Dead Men Say", in which Philip K. Dick introduces the concept of half-life and plays with the power of media and corpoations.

More of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy".

Part six of my review of "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dresier.

More silliness from 1964 Philip K. Dick in "The War with the Fnools".

More family drama in Philip K. Dick's short story "Oh! To be a Blobel".

Things start to get complicated for Clyde and his love life in part four of my review of "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dresier.

Another short story by Philip K. Dick published in 1964, one of his most prolific years. This one is on creativity and inspiration, with a sci-fi twist.

Mostly this episode contains things we covered in my review of "The Simulacra", but the story "Novelty Act" does differ from the novel's main themes in a few ways.

Part 3 of my review of "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser. This section focuses on how Clyde Griffiths finds a new job as a supervisor in a collar factory.