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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Return by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180

Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898142

A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570

Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908

The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250037824

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451419439

The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180632

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650

The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374666

JR by William Gaddis
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680

Malina by Ingebore Bachmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrry
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439195260

Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921

War Trash by Ha Jin
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400075799

Trieste by Dasa Drndic
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504

Passing by Nella Larsen
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437278

Natural Causes by Nina Lykke
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830669

The Dying Grass by William Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143109402

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