253: Drew Broussard Runs By (Stephen King's THE RUNNING MAN & Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN)
In This Episode:
Drew Broussard (former co-host of this show, current Lit Hub Radio host, Manager at Rough Draft) stops in for a SPOILER-FILLED chat about the dichotomy that is Richard Bachman/Stephen King, and both the book and the movie of The Running Man (the Edgar Wright one).
[note: we stop spoiling plot points for the book and movie at 48:55 or so]
THE EP. 253 BOOKSHELF
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Christopher: Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, Shattered by Dick Francis
Drew: Headlights by C.J. Leede, A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond as Told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid
ALSO MENTIONED:
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Rage by Richard Bachman
Roadwork by Richard Bachman
The Running Man by Richard Bachman
Blaze by Richard Bachman
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Desperation by Richard Bachman
The Regulators by Stephen King
The Dark Half by Stephen King
The Institution by Stephen King
Joyland by Stephen King
Hawaii by James Michener
The Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King
The Long Walk by Stephen King
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Running Man (dir. Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
“Seventh Victim” by Robert Sheckley
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Escape!by Stephen Fishbach
The Compound by Aisling Rawle
Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg
Wuthering Heights (dir. Emerald Fennel, 2026)
Marmaduke by Brad Anderson, then Paul Anderson
The Family Circus by Bill Keane, then Jeff Keane
The Work of Terry Pratchett
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire
The Devil and Mrs. Gooch by Oliver Darkshire
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
The work of Judy Blume
The work of Matt Christopher
Animorphs by K.A. Applegate
Redwall by Brian Jacques
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Drew: May We Feed the King by Rebecca Parry, The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Moss, The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, transl. Christina MacSweeney
Christopher: The Cleaner by Jess Shannon, Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie (dir.
