ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Tired of the brain rot? Outread the algorithm with us. We take on the heavyweights and maybe just give you something different to talk about over a beer.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 25 days
Average audio length:
80 minutes
English
United States
13 episodes
since Oct. 9, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
We sat down with Adam Ross, author of Playworld, to talk about taking ten years to write a novel, stealing from your own life without quite writing a memoir, growing up feral in 1980s New York, and why maybe not everything needs to be “content.”
Along the way: child acting, literary success, jiu-ji…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Remember this book from your high school summer reading list? America’s (most hated? favorite?) teenage menace returns with all the swearing, depression, phonies, and moral panic one could need. We read it and give our thoughts.
YouTube → https://youtu.be/BKGiWNwVPgQApple Podcasts → https://tinyurl…
Part 2 chopped us up. Someone get my bike. And my finger.
YouTube → https://youtu.be/MQuzsixARi0
Apple Podcasts → https://tinyurl.com/apple-shelf-destruct
Follow us → IG: @shelfdestructpod | TT: @shelfdestructpod
About Shelf Destruct
A podcast where three guys ruin literature by talking about it t…
We read Part 1 of Playworld by Adam Ross. It’s adolescence, just with a script no one bothered to explain.YouTube → https://youtu.be/4TRdmRH73lgApple Podcasts → https://tinyurl.com/apple-shelf-destructFollow us → IG: @shelfdestructpod | TT: @shelfdestructpodAbout Shelf DestructA podcast where three…
In this episode of Shelf Destruct, we start where we’re supposed to: with No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. What begins as a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert quickly becomes something colder and stranger. We talk Moss, Bell, Chigurh, and whether that coin flip is philosophy, fate, …
We dive into James Joyce’s The Dead, the final and most devastating story in Dubliners. What starts as a warm, boozy holiday gathering slowly turns into one of the coldest realizations in modern literature.
A family party. Polite arguments. Long goodbyes. Snow falling softly over Ireland. And then …
We read Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, a short story about insomnia, loneliness, and hanging around after closing time because going home feels worse. In six pages, Hemingway gives us a whole lot to think about. Just how we like it.If you’ve ever stayed up too late staring at the c…
Does Mother Night the movie hold up? We watched Vonnegut’s 1996 adaptation so you don’t have to (but maybe you should).
In this episode, the Shelf Destruct boys break down the weirdness of Nick Nolte as a Nazi propagandist, the surprisingly great cast (hello, Alan Arkin), and why translating Vonne…
In this episode of Shelf Destruct, we dive deep into Part 2 of Albert Camus’ The Stranger — the part where things get courtroom-dramatic, existentially messy, and a little emotional, honestly. Get ready.
→ Watch on Conversation on Pt. 1
→ Watch on YouTube
Follow us → IG: @shelfdestructpod | TT: @sh…
We read Part 1 of Camus’ The Stranger: funerals, why the sunlight in this book feels like a weapon, and what it means to live in an absurd world.
YouTube
Follow us → IG: @shelfdestructpod | TT: @shelfdestructpod
About Shelf Destruct
A podcast where three guys ruin literature by talking about it too…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Shelf Destruct, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,829,666 podcasts and 196,532,462 episodes by people, places, or topics.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest, so I listen to podcasts.
‐ Benjamin "Llamacorn" Franklin
CLAIM THIS PODCAST
Why to claim podcasts?
If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes
podcast pages.
It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts.
After claiming your Listen Notes podcast pages, you will be able to:
✓
Manually refresh the RSS feed to sync up
✓
Get a verified badge (
✓
) alongside with your podcast name on Listen Notes
✓
Post classified ads for sponsorship,
guests, co-hosts,
cross-promotion...
✓
Respond to listener comments on Listen Notes
✓
Use speech-to-text techniques to transcribe your show and
edit transcripts
✓
Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service
podcaster interview...
✓
If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention @ListenNotes
on X (formerly Twitter),
our official X (formerly Twitter) account will retweet to promote
your show to our followers.
Coming soon:
◯ Self-service promotion on Listen Notes
◯ Track your podcast stats on Listen
Notes, e.g., listens, page
views...
◯ Manage episodes
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
