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Episode Synopsis
Before we get going with interviews, this introduction will let you get to know our hosts and learn what they're hoping to do here. How and why do we read—and why can't we stop talking about it all? Want to keep track of the books and authors we mentioned? Check out what comes close to a comprehensive list below! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Gaston Bachelard The Practice of Everyday Life Don Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 Hernan Díaz Trust Gustav Eckstein The Body Has a Head; also Lives, in which the mentioned story, "Two Lives," is included Jonathan Franzen How to Be Alone ("Lost in the Mail") Paolo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed Christopher Gilbert Turning into Dwelling Pierre Hadot Philosophy as a Way of Life Liam Heneghan A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment John Irving Avenue of Mysteries Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle (vol. 6) László Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance Julia Kristeva New Maladies of the Soul Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Matthew McConaughey Greenlights Katja Oskamp Marzahn, mon amour Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence James Rebanks The Shepherd's Life Katy Scrogin "Complex Adaptive Democracy" Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Wallace Stevens The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion Walt Whitman Poetry & Prose RadioArt(r) The Phone Book Ryan Iverson Werner Herzog Reads Authors: Walter Mosley Sarah Orne Jewett
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