Lefton theShelf
A podcast about terrible books, read closely and from the left.
Each episode, a guest reads a bad book cover to cover so you don't have to. Then we pick it apart: what it gets wrong, who it was written for, and what it says about the world that made it a bestseller.
Episode 1 is in the works. Subscribe links will appear here at launch.
Episodes
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About the show
Left on the Shelf is a book club for books nobody should join a book club for.
Each episode, a guest takes on something truly bad: an airport thriller, a billionaire’s memoir, a hustle-culture self-help guide, a bestseller everyone has forgotten. They read the whole thing. Then we talk it through, from the politics on the page to the politics of who published it, who bought it, and why.
It’s criticism from the left, and it’s meant to be fun. We laugh at bad books, and we take seriously what they reveal.
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