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Books mentioned in this episode

Boswell by Stanley Elkin
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781564781741

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060883287
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681373270

You Bright and Risen Angels by William Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140110876
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
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Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312423209

Herscht by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811231534
The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811215046
The Mezzanine Nicholason Baker
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802144904

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

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307455772

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

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375703768

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

Underworld by Don DeLillo
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684848150

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

War & War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060899226

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063081918

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250007650

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812971064

2666 by Roberto Bolano
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218

The Hole by Jose Revueltes
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811227780

Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143112563

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427740

A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780226141794

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781101594674

The Instructions by Adam Levin
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781936365685

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062041289

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780385536837

Texas The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781646053537

Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593087503

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

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811239707

theMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802189172

The Jewish Son by Daniel Guebel
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644212899

Septology (I-II) by Jon Fosse
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781945492754

Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas by Rick Harsch
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781953409072

Grimmish by Michael WInkler
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781552454664

A Bended Circuity by Stickley

Pay As You Go by Eskor David Johnson
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781963270266

The Garden by Aiden Scott
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9798334787322

Empty Wigs by Jonathan Meades
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781806770045

A Table for Fortune by William Vollmann
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781648211881