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Books mentioned in this episode:

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427481
Or
amzn.to/3ZCszIO

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811216883
Or
amzn.to/4gxwIDS

The Stronghold by DIno Buzzati
amzn.to/4gtUsZz
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681377148

The Tartar Steppe by DIno Buzzati
amzn.to/3VR9tN2

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
amzn.to/3BMt8qm
Or
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802122070

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
amzn.to/3PeYpFE
Or
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945


Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
amzn.to/41PVPNZ
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811217941

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
amzn.to/4gBUPkX
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811225502

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/4gutlxL
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228718

The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/4iPPuYR
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811238502

The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/3BXDpQy
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811226752

Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/3ZSNXIX
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811219495

Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/4gxjnvn
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811219624

Roberto Bolano 2666
amzn.to/3DGVsei
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
amzn.to/4fBoiKo
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749

Amulet by Roberto Bolano
amzn.to/408fkjr
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898128

Babel by RF Kuang
amzn.to/429ywyT
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063021433

Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
amzn.to/407Kpnp
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898166

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
amzn.to/3DxbAza
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780618706419

Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
amzn.to/409F2E4
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140255102

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
amzn.to/3DxYtxL
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802124944

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
amzn.to/40cAwoB
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650

Something Happened by Joseph Heller
amzn.to/4guvw4p
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684841212

Libra by Don DeLillo
amzn.to/3BLrmWw
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140156041

Underworld by Don DeLillo
amzn.to/407L8VF
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684848150

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
amzn.to/41XkbFg

Murder of Frogs by Don Carpenter
amzn.to/4gMUuvo

Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
amzn.to/40aFUII
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400

Jumping the Line by William Herrick
amzn.to/4a1qTfB
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781902593425

Love and Terror by William Herrick
(on backorder eveywhere)

Quicksand by Nella Larsen
amzn.to/40a3uoT
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9798890961297

Margie and the Atomic Brain by Zachery Tanner
coronasamizdat.com

Wake up we’re almost there by Chandler Brossard


The Wolf Howls at my Door by Chandler Brossard


Raging Joys, Sublime Violations by Chandler Brossard


The Wolf Leaps by Chandler Brossard

Endurance by Alfred Lansing
amzn.to/3ZRFVzS


In the Heart of the Sea by Nathanial Philbrick
amzn.to/40cDsBD

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
amzn.to/4gS20Fy
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247

The Writing of America by Geoff Ward
amzn.to/407T890


The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos
amzn.to/4gRfq4n


Ms. Macintosh my Darling by Marguerite Young
amzn.to/3BGSFRX

Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
amzn.to/49VyL2e

V by Thomas Pynchon
amzn.to/3BTsc3u


Materhorn by Karl Marlantes
amzn.to/4gRgK7l

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
amzn.to/4gvyoOq
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525562849

Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas
amzn.to/49SMreo
Or
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781953409072

Warrior Dreams by James William Gibson
amzn.to/41U8tvd

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
amzn.to/4gMYSKS


Rising up RIsing Down by William T. Vollman
amzn.to/49XhOog