prep by curtis sittenfeld

we continue our campus season with prep by curtis sittenfeld, the first book on the pod that’s new to bobby. we talk about its spanning breadth (in a relatively tight package), lee as a reluctant and naive narrator, and our the novel’s lack of narrative darkness. we also talk about how unsexy prep is (and whether that’s good or bad), who high school books are actually written for, and the elements of class and race contained in the novel. also: bobby absolutely refuses to do the one job he’s been tasked with (but continues to relate everything to the o.c.) and we unveil both our wiki-based plan for world podcast domination and the secret tagline we’ve always had for the show.reading list for season twothe bell jar by sylvia plath, 11/4prep by curtis sittenfeld, 11/18the art of fielding by chad harbach, 12/2nickel boys by colson whitehead, 12/16the virgins by pamela erens, 12/30my education by susan choi, 1/13giles goat-boy by john barth, 1/27end zone by don delillo, 2/10loner by teddy wayne, 2/24the secret history by donna tartt, 3/10sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy, 3/24college novel by blake middleton, 4/7real life by brandon taylor, 4/21the instructions by adam levin, 5/5the idiot by elif batuman, 5/19