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Books mentioned in this episode
Hopscotch by Julio Cortizar
amzn.to/4vGRHLJ
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780394752846

Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Daniielewski
amzn.to/4cLYdds
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781524747718

The Instructions by Adam Levin
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952119736

The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307386533

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
amzn.to/4aH4mGk
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143107552

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781954525313

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
amzn.to/3CR68r0
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143112563

Miss Macintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781628974324

Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie Fiedler
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379692

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
amzn.to/4oEF80g

After the First Death by Robert Cormier
amzn.to/4oNYWOX
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780440208358

You Bright and Risen Angels by William Vollmann
amzn.to/4a9mr0y
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140110876

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
amzn.to/48OXGpI
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749

The Employees by Olga Ravn
amzn.to/4lvJV3G
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234825

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
amzn.to/4o9sCpm
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
amzn.to/44gySmw
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679734505

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
amzn.to/4k7uqfF
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780743273565

The Tunnel by William H. Gass
amzn.to/3SzfEGq
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781628976366

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
amzn.to/4vcGzGQ
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547255279

White Noise by Don Dellilo
amzn.to/3VJRGXF

The Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover
amzn.to/4fzZFSa
bookshop.org/a/103053/9798896230182

History: A Mess
amzn.to/4ov928c
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953984

The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernandez
amzn.to/4cpUbFQ
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934824061

The USA Trilogy by Juan Dos Passos
amzn.to/3XX8r34
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063351530

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812976717

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/4xj6Mol
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811232210

A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173473
amzn.to/4qjp1Xf

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
amzn.to/4uyPG3s
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307454546

TheMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh
amzn.to/4v8iUqX
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802189172

America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots

The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpi
amzn.to/4utnVJe
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830249

Troll by Dave Fitzgerald
amzn.to/3CvVR3a
bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952600326

A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
amzn.to/3Ype5uW

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
amzn.to/428TxcP
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427481

Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
amzn.to/3LdtjQ2
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811220026

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
amzn.to/42WE3r4
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039433

Crime and Punishment
amzn.to/4aL12Lg
bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143107637