Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Books mentioned in this episode:
Boswell by Stanley Elkin
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The Murmurations by Carlos Labbe
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781960385017

Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781524747718

The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250808240

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679732761

Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379418

Quicksand by Nella Larsen
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781515432425

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060883287

You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140110876

The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811215046

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681373270

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451651683

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802130204

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427481

Europe Central by William Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143036593

Whores for Gloria by William Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140231571

Poor People by William Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060878849

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