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The Socialist Shelf

Baby I Was Born To Walk: The Long Walk

Jan 21, 2025
02:05:55

We walk. And walk. And waaaalk.


Welcome to the twisted mind of Stephen King, AKA Richard Bachman, and his 1979 dystopian horror, "The Long Walk."


What if America was bad? Like...even more bad. What if we had young men play sports that killed them...like killed them even more than the ones they do now. The Shelfers investigate.


Fascism. Masculinity. Sexuality. Repetitive Writing. We get into it all.

Music by Solo Monk (@SoloMonk256 on Twitter, ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/solomonkart⁠⁠⁠⁠,) episode art is us doing the long walk (from the book's cover)

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