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Hardcover Hooligans

Battle Royale (with Steph Callaghan)

· 1 h 35 min

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The only literary classic that features 15-year-olds killing each other with machine guns.

And thanks to Steph for recommending the book and being on the show!

Content warnings: This is a book where teenagers kill each other in increasingly gory and violent ways, so we chat about everything that entails (but we don’t really stay too long on it). Also some mentions of sexual assault and suicide.

Battle Royale

By Koshoun Takami

Translated by Yuji Oniki.

Published in 1999.

Spoilers:

Battle Royale

Links:

Summary of the whole book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(novel)

Steph’s improv school in Minneapolis: https://www.verygoodimprov.com/

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Special Guest: Steph Callaghan.

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