how to win the lottery: a book club p...
a book club, like oprah’s if oprah were two suburban guys from new jersey, or reese witherspoon’s if reese were two suburban guys from new jersey, except without the engine of fame that those two huge stars provide. but come on: oprah is not going to answer your emails. (trust us, we know.) every two weeks, a new book microscoped and surgeried by benevolent despot joey lewandowski and disgraced college professor "shreds"... with your help! here's a guarantee: every episode ends with an arrestable crime. will it be something boring like credit card fraud or something sexy like a casino heist? listen to find out.
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blood on the forge by william attaway
steel just had to get somebody that day.
41 min
2
season twenty-two theme and reading list
suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#7)
8 min
3
the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger
don't ever tell anybody anything. if you do, you start missing everybody.
48 min
4
the memory police by yoko ogawa, translated by ...
“and what will happen if words disappear?” i whispered to myself, afraid that if i said it too loudly, it might come true.
34 min
5
your name here by helen dewitt and ilya gridneff
"what's going on? where is it going?"
55 min
6
the chain by adrian mckinty
we must never break the chain.
44 min
7
antkind by charlie kaufman
everybody’s talking about brainio.
56 min
8
detransition, baby by torrey peters
"but if we weren’t meant to be lovers, it doesn’t mean that we weren’t meant to be family."
54 min
9
the sugar frosted nutsack by mark leyner
"famous tauruses include adolf hitler, pol pot, jessica alba, and megan fox."
40 min
10
the odyssey by homer, translated by emily wilson
tell me about a complicated man. / muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost / when he had wrecked the holy town of troy, / and where he went, and who he met, the pain / he suffered in the storms at sea, and how / he worked to save his life and bring his men / back home. he failed to keep them safe; poor fools, / they ate the sun god's cattle, and the god / kept them from home. now goddess, child of zeus, / tell the old story for our modern times. / find the beginning.
90 min
11
season twenty-one theme and reading list
we're returning to a familiar well.
14 min
12
american psycho by bret easton ellis
... and where i ran into walter rhodes, a total canadian, whom i haven’t seen since exeter and who also, like mcdermott, reeked of xeryus, and i actually told him, “listen, i’m trying to stay away from people. i’m avoiding even speaking to them,” and then i asked to be excused. only slightly stunned, walter said, “uh, sure, i, um, understand.”
73 min
13
the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
“anyhow he gives large parties,” said jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. “and i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
67 min
14
season twenty theme and reading list
yes, we're still the world's most patriotic podcast.
8 min
15
american boy by larry watson
won’t do what a man wants/likes— this is how i steal him away!
39 min
16
john reimringer interview (author of vestments)
we talk to john reimringer, author of vestments, about catholicism, the o'connor system, and the juicy lucy burger.
58 min
17
vestments by john reimringer
glory be to you, dancers; to hawks for their many names; to baseballs for falling into green outfields and waiting mitts; to white nights, the slice of skates, the evening light on the mississippi. glory be to the great city at its head, to saint paul and the working men who built its churches and taverns, unloaded its steamboats, and laid down its trolley lines and its railroad to the northwest. praise be to my father, bent to some task of joinery in an old house; and to betty’s son, i want to teach him to swim and water-ski, to skip happily over the deep green waters of forest lake.
49 min
18
ruby and roland by faith sullivan
a woman who smoked in public was considered “loose,” but i saw no harm in smoking if it was in private. and in any case, why was it immoral only for a woman and not a man?
56 min
19
season nineteen theme and reading list
suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#6)
8 min
20
sara levine interview (author of treasure islan...
we talk to sara levine, author of treasure island!!! and the hitch, about pets, siblings, and her favorite notebooks.
60 min
21
the hitch by sara levine
be the alpha be the alpha be the alpha
34 min
22
treasure island!!! by sara levine
steer the boat, girlfriend!
43 min
23
short dark oracles by sara levine
returning to the table, i smiled at anyone who accidentally looked my way. i smiled at the waiter so often i confused him.
42 min
24
season eighteen theme and reading list
a podcast favorite comes home.
8 min
25
from hell by alan moore
my name is william withey gull and i am dying. i am catch-me-if-you-can and i am leather apron. i am jack the ripper on my way to heaven.
50 min