This podcast is about the love of books. It covers everything from comic books to the classics. At its most basic level it's about the adventure of searching out another great reading experience. From comic books to pulp fiction, classic literature to fantasy and science fiction, this podcast celebrates the joys of literature, and the hunt for the next great read! It is also a community sourced podcast. So if you would like to contribute an episode feel free to email 143podcasts@gmail.com.

Michael from Germany introduces us to Tolkien's poem, The Lay of Autrou and Itroun, written in 1930 and published in Welsh Review in December 1945.

On this episode Michael from Germany discusses Bruce Chatwin's 1987 publication, The Songlines.

Michael from Texas is back to talk about one of his favorite writers, Larry McMurtry.  This episode focuses mainly on McMurtry and his career.  The next episode will focus on the 1985 novel, Lonesome Dove, and it's sequel and prequels.  Thanks for listening.

In this episode, Michael from Germany finishes up taking a look at A Nomad of the Time Streams-- a compilation volume of Michael Moorcock's early steampunk trilogy, begun in 1971 with The Warlord of the Air and continued by its 1974 and 1981 sequels, The Land Leviathan and The Steel Tsar.

Michael from Germany continues to investigate what is considered by many to be the first steampunk novel series collected as A Nomad of the Time Stream in 1982.  Plus Dostoevsky and much more.  Essential listening!