Really True Fiction

05/17/2025

Hello wonderful community!

I find myself returning to a season of life where I would like to start doing more episodes of RTF! I'm reaching out to all of you for any suggestions about a story you would like to hear done. Thank you!

Luke

PS. If you want to do the episode with me, I'm well up for that too!

12/12/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-90-bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed-boogie-nights

Big thanks to Graham King for joining me on episode 90!   In this episode we chat about the great film Boogie Nights (1997) by Paul Thomas Anderson. In this episode we wrangle with notions of: The essence of Faustian bargain being that you don't even ask for what you really want, and the isolat...

11/24/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/bonus-the-hardest-thing-to-predict-is-the-future-1984-vs-brave-new-world

Welcome to a bonus episode of Really True Fiction. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that our last two episodes were on 1984 and Brave New World. So, for a bonus, Dan and I do a bit of a compare and contrast between them; seeing as they are both very famous and of a similar ouevre. In this bon...

11/17/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-89-may-the-ford-be-with-you-brave-new-world

Welcome to part two of our double bill on famous dystopia! In this episode Dan Holder and I delve into the 1931 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While disecting Huxley's vision of a dys(u?)topia, we chat about:  How this should've been an essay Is this even dystopia? Boring mantra and cl...

10/30/2024

New episode up today!

In this episode my friend Dan Holder and I dive into maybe the most referenced/least read book ever: 1984. In this episode we chat about Orwell's favourite pub, paying attention to the little things in life and how thought crime makes us lose those things, how Winston is attracted to all the little....

04/17/2024

Finally finished the Harry Potter saga with The Deathly Hallows. Enjoy!

Finally, we made it. I was very grateful to once again be joined by Dan Holder, Lydia Rollinson and Graham King to finish off the Harry Potter books. In this last instalment of the series we talk about: Students becoming more excellent than their teachers, changing your opinion of someone because th...

02/17/2024

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-86-thats-totally-my-book-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince

Welcome to the first foursome for Really True Fiction! A big thanks to Dan, Lydia and Graham for joining me to chat about the (best?) sixth Harry Potter book. In our conversation we cover such ground as: Relationships as status vs feeling, the monster in the chest, Ginny's subtle art of not giving a...

01/14/2024

New episode out today! I was joined by Dan Holder and Lydia Rollinson to do Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-85-kafkas-wet-dream-harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix

12/27/2023

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-84-spiral-of-uncertainty-the-orphan-masters-son

Happy Holidays! New episode available today!

For this episode of Really True Fiction I am pleased to have Stuart Kaija and Graham King on as guests to discuss the 2013 novel The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (winner of the Pulitzer prize). I had never heard of this book before it being introduced to me for this episode and I thorougly en...

11/12/2023

https://reallytruefiction.libsyn.com/ep-83-two-weevils-master-commander

First new episode of RTF in over a year! I was very happy to be joined by my friend Dan Holder for this one. Hope you are all having a good time; more to come soon!

Luke

10/22/2022

Brand new episode of Really True Fiction out today! This is David and I's first in person recording since we did Dune! For today's episode, we are discussing the novella The Trial by Franz Kafka. This is a superlative book in the canon and I highly recommend it to everyone.

In this episode we are discussing Franz Kafka's The Trial; written in 1914 but not published until 1925. This is an incredible and seminal work in modern literature and should be read by everyone. In this episode we talk about: - The style of a story that puts the audience in touch with the feelings...

08/15/2022

Hey! I made an appearance on The Canadian Story podcast if anyone wants to check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCN8oBGLiC0&t=54s

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