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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sweet days of discipline by fleur jaeggy
"what are the girls thinking of? at least half are nostalgic for death, and for a temple, and for all those clothes."
32 min
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devil house by john darnielle
"nobody cares about the actual details of anything, they just want the feeling they get when the story punches their buttons."
53 min
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the secret history by donna tartt
"but i am getting sentimental. sometimes, when i think about these things, i do."
66 min
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loner by teddy wayne
"the white male with whom everyone will become obsessed."
61 min
80
end zone by don delillo
"that’s the essence of the word. it’s a football, isn’t it? it is a foot ball. my foot sought union with the ball."
61 min
81
giles goat-boy by john barth
"i'm going to be a hero."
77 min
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my education by susan choi
"she stood crimson-faced and extensively rumpled, as if she'd been rousted from bed, and my guts avalanched within me and i knew i adored her."
64 min
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the virgins by pamela erens
"all this time aviva has surely believed that seung died because of her. what has that done to her?"
70 min
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the nickel boys by colson whitehead
"even in death the boys were trouble."
52 min
85
the art of fielding by chad harbach
"putting henry at shortstop—it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in the ideal spot. you instantly forgot what the room had looked like before."
70 min
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prep by curtis sittenfeld
"perhaps this sounds mercenary, but i feel grateful for these trial relationships, and i would like to think it all evens out—surely, unknowingly, i have served as practice for other people."
64 min
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the bell jar by sylvia plath
"i wondered what terrible thing it was that i had done."
48 min
88
season two theme and reading list
we're going back to school.
10 min
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never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
"i was thinking maybe the reason you used to get like that was because at some level you always knew."
53 min
90
open city by teju cole
i have to be responsible for the world, and none of them knows what that feels like. if i don’t organize things just right, you see, everything will be destroyed. you understand? i’m not saying i’m god, but i know what it feels like to carry the world.
47 min
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ducks, newburyport by lucy ellmann
the fact that sometimes I think that people today must be the saddest people ever, because we know we ruined everything,
71 min
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any man by amber tamblyn
many times i have asked myself what i could’ve done to protect myself that night. i asked myself if i had deserved this. i convinced myself that i did, and it wasn’t hard to.
57 min
93
colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgr...
not everything was lost in the flow of time.
64 min
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simon birch (1998) (bonus episode)
we do the owen voice.
23 min
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a prayer for owen meany by john irving
i am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person i ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason i believe in god; i am a christian because of owen meany.
86 min
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memories of my father watching tv by curtis white
how many dots make a dad?
59 min
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you shall know our velocity! (previously re-tit...
so i’d been given $80,000 to screw in a lightbulb. there is almost no way to dress it up; that’s what it was.
63 min
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pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier
her name was jenny hauser and every wednesday i put pickles on her pizza.
59 min
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death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh
her name was magda. nobody will ever know who killed her. it wasn’t me. here is her dead body.
82 min
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introducing how to win the lottery
a podcast book club
8 min