OVERINVESTED

with Morgan and Gavia

Episode 147: Philip Pullman's "The Secret Commonwealth"

November 16, 2019 by Morgan Davies in episodes

This week, Morgan and Gavia discuss the second installment of Philip Pullman's follow-up trilogy to His Dark Materials, The Secret Commonwealth, which finds Lyra Silvertongue studying at Oxford as a young adult. They discuss the novel's relationship to the earlier books, Pullman's new ideas about daemons, and second-book-in-a-trilogy problems.

Episode 67: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

November 16, 2017 by Morgan Davies in episodes

This week, Gavia and Morgan revisit their childhoods with Philip Pullman's new novel La Belle Sauvage, the first installment of his new trilogy The Book of Dust, a companion to His Dark Materials. They discuss this book's relationship to Pullman's earlier trilogy, earnest children, frightening villains, Oxford, and—for some reason—Edmund Spenser's living situation.