Episode 94: “Chewing Glass” or Tim Krabbe’s The Rider
About this episode
The episode discusses Tim Krabbe's novel 'The Rider' as a blend of autobiography and fiction, exploring its themes and narrative style.
Tim Krabbe's novel is barely a novel. It is a thinly veiled autobiogrpahical essay, with fictional details and composite characters, allowing the author to navigate his story just to one side of the fiction/nonfiction divide. The lads ponder why it does not fall into the "bike porn" genre, and why the images of teeth and glass continually emerge.
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