Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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People mentioned:
Steve @saintdonoghue
Deea @novelideea
Jack @ramblingraconteur1616

Books mentioned:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell
The Yiddish Policeman's Union Michael Chabon
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
The Glass Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier
So Big by Edna Ferber
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthessen
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Quarterlife by Devika Rege
The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor


Decades project videos:
1930s youtu.be/bBQlrHkDVuM
1940s youtu.be/RhxgnlopU1s
1950s youtu.be/KFYAnupP9NM
1960s youtu.be/0hCVro519Og
1970s youtu.be/2YGf2R1MUYM
1980s youtu.be/vwI-JtBPn18
1990s youtu.be/bNGU96VfNcw
2000s youtu.be/0yuG3Eu9D3I
2010s youtu.be/z1J-LWZgiQU
2020s youtu.be/kQ7IXx10G8U

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