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Books mentioned in this episode (purchasing through these links helps support the show)

The Combinations by Louis Armand
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Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki
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How To Quiet a Vampire by Borislav Pekic
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Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson
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The Kukotsky Enigma by Ludmila Ulitskaya
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https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810133488/the-kukotsky-enigma/

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass
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Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass
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Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
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At Night he Lifts Weights by Kang Young-sook
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The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca
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Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann
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The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca
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The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector
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Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza
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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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Middle C by William Gass
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Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-nan
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The Public Burning by Robert Coover
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An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park
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Same Bed DIfferent Dreams by Ed Park
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The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
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An Angel of Sodom by David Vardiman

Jesus’s Son by Denis Johnson

Angels by Denis Johnson

Tree of Smoke by Denish Johnson

The World Goes on by Laszlo Kraznahorkai
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Dialogues in Paradise by Can Xue
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Paranoia by Victor Martinovich
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Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann
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