The Worst Century
Ian & Page, two Queers masquerading as cultural elites, excavate the culture of the 21st Century. Each episode, the hosts explore key media of the century so far in order to explore what it means to be making “American” art today.
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Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
This episode, we're talking about the big awards books of 2001, but first, we discuss the Pulitzer drama of 2025. We get into generational trauma, the right wing "they're coming to get you" conspiracy, how sad men are, and influencer culture and the monetization of hobbies. You kn...
Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
This episode, we're talking about how Camp absolutely slays the house down boots, divas. Listen along as we discuss how 2000 was the last year of Camp until the Barbie movie and how auteur directors are resurrecting the studio system to bring Camp back. We get into Sontag's semina...
Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Today's episode is about the books 2000 wants you to remember. We get into Dan Brown, John Grisham, George Saunders, and Helen DeWitt. We get caught up in the limbo that is time talking about a pope who was alive when we recorded. (And you get to hear Chris's voice giving us a lit...
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Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Today's episode is all about the movies of the year 2000. We start by diving into the Oscar & Indie Spirit Best Picture nominees for the year - really it's just a lot of talk about drugs and corporate power. Then we play a fun game where we lo...
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Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
On this first episode, we get into our rules for the road, share a little about what went in to making this project, and dive into the first two books for the year 2000: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (winner of the 2001 Pulitz...
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