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.

Books
Fiction
Hobbies
101
season two theme and reading list
we're going back to school.
10 min
102
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
103
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
104
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
105
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
106
colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgr...
not everything was lost in the flow of time.
64 min
107
simon birch (1998) (bonus episode)
we do the owen voice.
23 min
108
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
109
memories of my father watching tv by curtis white
how many dots make a dad?
59 min
110
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
111
pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier
her name was jenny hauser and every wednesday i put pickles on her pizza.
59 min
112
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
113
introducing how to win the lottery
a podcast book club
8 min