Good Scribes Only
By Daniel Breyer, Jeremy Streich
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Good Scribes Only is a podcast featuring a novelist + venture investor (Daniel Breyer) and a novelist + founder (Jeremy Streich), who share an enthusiasm for literature. From classics to sci-fi, moderns to ancient philosophy, your hosts will ramble and banter about it all—particularly the topics they have no business discussing.
Each episode dives into the craft of writing as well as questions of plot, character, theme, and philosophy in a work.
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#172 The Opinions of Nash and Company
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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#171 Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (Sci Fi)
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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#170 Yes, I Can Redeem Myself!
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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#169 Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (Western)
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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#168 Music Has Changed
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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#167 Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman (Horror)
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May 26, 2026 |
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Bonus - We Want Your Books!
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May 13, 2026 |
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#165 The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (Spy)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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#164 Ice Cold Creepy
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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#163 The North Water - Ian McGuire (Thriller)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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#162 Crafting the Perfect Fantasy Recipe
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#161 Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson (Fantasy)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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#160 Voices in Our Heads
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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#159 American Rust - Philipp Meyer (Crime)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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#158 Paranormal Toilet Paper Cyber Bandits
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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#157 And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (Mystery)
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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#156 It's All Been Done Before
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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#155 Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel (Historical Fiction)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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#155 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Bonus)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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#154 New Horizons
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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#153 Quicksilver - Callie Hart (Romantasy)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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#152 Lovely Doodles and Handwritten Letters
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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#151 Augustus - John Williams (Epistolary)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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#150 Does Art Reveal or Reflect Humanity?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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#149 Never Let Me Go - Kazou Ishiguro (Speculative Fiction)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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#148 Road Trip Recap
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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#147 Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#146 Lightweight Centurions
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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#145 The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton (Arizona)
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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#144 There's No Turning Back
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#143 House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday (New Mexico)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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#142 People Can't Find Out About the Serial Killer in My Family
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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#141 Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (Colorado)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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#140 Where Would We Be Without Books?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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#139 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (New Mexico)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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#138 You Have to Walk Before You Run, Trot Before You Canter
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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#137 Horseman, Pass By - Larry McMurtry (Texas)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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#136 She Fell I Swear!
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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#135 All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (Louisiana)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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#134 Book Bootleggers
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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#133 Light in August - William Faulkner (Mississippi)
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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#132 Scorpions and Sauerkraut
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May 28, 2025 |
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#131 Suttree - Cormac McCarthy (Tennessee)
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May 21, 2025 |
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#130 Third Spaces, Dental Waiting Rooms, and Quiet Uber Rides
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May 13, 2025 |
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#129 Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry (Kentucky)
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May 01, 2025 |
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#128🔥 SMOKEBIRDS, a novel by Daniel Breyer: Live Recording at Green Apple Books in SF
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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#127 🪙 24 Hours After You Win the Lottery....
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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#126 God Bless You Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut (Indiana)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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#125 🏡 Diets, Taylor Swift, Conformity, and the Myth of Individualism
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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#124 Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (Ohio)
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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#123 🎮 "Bad" Habits, Video Games, Jiu Jitsu, and the End of Death
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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#122 🐇 Rabbit Run by John Updike (Pennsylvania)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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#121 New York vs Siberia
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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#120 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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#119 Full House, ABC Family, Moralizing Content, and the Return of Retro
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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#118 🐴 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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#117 🧓🏼 Peak Late! Achieving Artistic Success at a Young Age, Ego in Writing, and Jon Hamm
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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#116 🥵 Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (New Hampshire)
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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#115 👻 Do You Believe in Ghosts?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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#114 -SEASON 7 ROAD TRIP USA - Bag of Bones by Stephen King (Maine)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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#113 〽️ Alternative Takes on Classic Characters, A Dangerous Game
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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#112 🌾 James by Percival Everett
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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#111 📿 The Spectrum of Spirituality and Rationality
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#110 🌳 A Shining by Jon Fosse (2023)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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#109 👁️🗨️ The Allure of Violence, Escapism, Horror, and Finding Humor in Death
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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#108🤿 The Passenger by CORMAC MCCARTHY (2022)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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#107 😗 Would You Be a Whistleblower?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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#106 🇮🇪 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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#105 🔚 Endings: the Good, the Bad, the Insanely Great
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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#104 ☎️ Telephone by Percival Everet (2020)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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#103 What Your Bookshelf Says About You
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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#102 The Dutch House by Anne Patchett (2019)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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#101 🎊 Meet the Team That Got Us to 💯 Episodes
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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#100 👯♀️ How Friend Groups Change Over Time
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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#99 ❤️🩹 Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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#98 🪷 Do We Have a Soul?
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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#97 🥀 Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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#96➗Maybe We're Less Divided Than We Think We Are? (Plus Daniel's Suspension From Twitter 🫠)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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#95 🇭🇺 Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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#94 🎭 The Masks We Wear
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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#93 😳 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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#92 👓 Blindness, Eyesight, and the Problem(?!) of Reading
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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#91 🏰 All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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#90 👨🚀 Texas, California, Jon Stewart, Wokism, and an Unfortunate Foray into Politics
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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#89 🏇 The Son by Philipp Meyer (2013)
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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#88 🤨 Mad Men, Succession, Anti-heroes, and Complex Characters
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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#87 ⛄️ Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (2012)
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May 31, 2024 |
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#86 🥱 Could Boredom Be the Spice of Life?!
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May 23, 2024 |
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#85 🧾 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (2011)
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May 15, 2024 |
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#84 🎬 American Fiction, Dark comedies, and Love on a Leash
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May 08, 2024 |
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#83 👨🎤 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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#82 🗺️ Cities, Access to Nature, Norway, and Choosing Where to Live
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#81 🏀 Book Madness 2024
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#80 🇳🇴 My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard (2009)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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# 79 🧌 Book Deals, Scranches, Historical Fiction, and Intense Experiences
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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# 78 🌾 Song Yet Sung by James McBride (2008)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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#77 🎮 Escapism, Dungeons + Dragons, Obsessions, Going Through the Motions, and Spiritual Materialism
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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#76 🇩🇴 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2007)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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#75 🛸🫠 "Are Extra-Terrestrials Anti-Semitic?"
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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#74 👾 The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2006)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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#73 🦿Consumption Habits, Re-reading Books, and Will AI Write as Well As Cormac McCarthy?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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# 72 💰 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2005)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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#71 🔖 Social Bubbles, Satire, Realism vs Fantasy, and Writing with Sincerity - Inside Good Scribes
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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#70 🇲🇽 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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#69 ♾️ Therapy, Science vs Humanities, Higher Education, and The Wisdom of Chasing Your Strengths - Inside Good Scribes
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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#68 🧮 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2003)
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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#67 🥋 Fear, Regret, Shadow Careers, and Brazilian Jiujitsu
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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#66 🐈 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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#65 🎁 2023 Wrapped - Our Fav Books, Shows, Movies, Docs, and Pods
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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#64 🎊 Nostalgia, Holidays, and the Changing American Dream - Inside Good Scribes
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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#63 🎄 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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#62 🫡 ✍️ Why Are Superhero Movies So Popular? - Inside Good Scribes
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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#61 🦸 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon (2000)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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#60 ✅ Season Four #Wrapped - Ranking the Reads
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#59 🫡 ✍️ Earning Respect, Credentialism, and the Importance of Writing - Inside Good Scribes
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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#58 🪖 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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#57 🥀🥶 The Anti-Library, Reading Challenges, and Cold Plunging - Inside Good Scribes
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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#56 - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 🥀
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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#55 - What is Meaning Anyway? - Inside Good Scribes -
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#54 - Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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#53 👨🏻🏫 To Academia, or Not to Academia - Inside Good Scribes
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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#52 - 🏫 Stoner by John Williams
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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#51 - How Can You Follow Up a Masterpiece? - Inside Good Scribes
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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#50 🌾 John Steinbeck's East of Eden
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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#49 🇺🇸 Jed Bartlet for President, Why Politics Stinks - Inside Good Scribes
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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#48 - Native Son by Richard Wright ⛓️🐁
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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#47 ✨✍️ Blending Fiction and Reality - Inside Good Scribes
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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#46 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 👒
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#45 🤔 Where Does the Idea for a Novel Come From? - Inside Good Scribes
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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#44 - Orlando by Virginia Woolf 💁♂️💁♀️
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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#43 Inside Good Scribes - On Writing, Art, and Changing Genre 🎨🪞
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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#42 🧑🎨 Portrait of the Artist as a Man by James Joyce
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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#41 Inside Good Scribes - Rock and Roll, Megachurches, Political Identity, and Having an Impact ⚡ 🏛️
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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#40 🍖🥶 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#39 - 📚🏆 Ranking the Reads of Season 3
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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#38 🇯🇵 🦋1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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#37 📟🦧 Inside Good Scribes - Modernization, Religion, and Chimp Empire
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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#36 🇴🇲🐫 Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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#35 🫡🧗♀️ Inside Good Scribes - Australian Rock Bands, Suffering, Physical Challenge, and the Human Spirit
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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#34 🇦🇺🛤️ The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
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May 29, 2023 |
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#33 🤖🚜 Inside Good Scribes - A Discussion on A.I.
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May 25, 2023 |
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#32 🍇🇺🇸 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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May 22, 2023 |
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#31 🎭😹 Inside Good Scribes - The Power of Comedy
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May 18, 2023 |
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#30 🇬🇹⚔️ The President by Miguel Angel Asturias
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May 15, 2023 |
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#29 🤝🚩 Inside Good Scribes - Doing Business Abroad, Red and Green Flags 🤝🚩
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May 12, 2023 |
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#28 - 🌍🇹🇿 Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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May 08, 2023 |
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#27 🌍🛫 Inside Good Scribes - Thoughts on Travel, Tourism, and Authenticity
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May 04, 2023 |
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#26 — Let's Travel! 🧳🛫 Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
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May 02, 2023 |
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#25 - S2 Book Madness
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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#24 - Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 🏜️
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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#23 - Inside Good Scribes - Gluttony in Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#22 - Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde 👱🏻♀️
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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#21 - Inside Good Scribes - Envy in Madeline Miller's Circe 🧙🏼♀️
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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#20 - Madeline Miller - Circe 🧙🏼♀️
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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#19 - Inside Good Scribes - Wrath in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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#18 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#17 - Inside Good Scribes - Lust in Nabokov's Lolita
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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#16 - Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#15 - Inside Good Scribes: Sloth in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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#14 - Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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#13 - Inside Good Scribes - Greed in Jane Smiley's Good Faith 💸
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#12 - Jane Smiley - Good Faith
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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#11 - Graham Greene - Power and Glory
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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2022 in Review
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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#10 Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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#9 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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#8 - James Baldwin - Another Country
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#7 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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#6 Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Mid-Season Break
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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#5 Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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#4 Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
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May 27, 2022 |
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#3 Kazuo Ishiguro- Remains of the Day
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May 13, 2022 |
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#2 Kurt Vonnegut — Breakfast of Champions
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May 13, 2022 |
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#1 Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others
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May 13, 2022 |