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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all the king's men by robert penn warren
"all knowledge that’s worth anything is maybe paid for by blood. maybe that’s the only way you can tell that a certain piece of knowledge is worth anything – it has cost some blood."
51 min
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the moviegoer by walker percy
"the fact is i am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. other people, so i have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in central park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. i too once met a girl in central park, but it is not much to remember. what i remember is the time john wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in stagecoach, and the time the kitten found orson welles in the doorway in the third man."
62 min
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season four theme and reading list
suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#1)
15 min
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fake accounts by lauren oyler
"but the problem was not attention span or gluttony; the problem was that i didn’t actually believe the knowledge i acquired online was useless. i sought it out purposefully, defensively, as if it would one day become vitally important, provide the clue to some threatening mystery of my social or professional life."
53 min
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we had to remove this post by hanna bervoets
"i let her pull me into a hug, and i spent the rest of the day thinking about the letter, which meant that at work i just sat there with a silly smile on my face as i watched a video of a man in red coveralls being shot in the back by an invisible assailant in the distance."
70 min
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neuromancer by william gibson
"the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
68 min
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things have gotten worse since we last spoke by...
"what have you done today to deserve your eyes?"
60 min
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allie rowbottom interview (author of aesthetica)
we talk to allie rowbottom, author of aesthetica, about botox, emojis, and lana del rey.
54 min
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aesthetica by allie rowbottom
"i reach for my phone again, lift it to scan my retina and unlock the screen; i don't bother using face recognition, it never works for me."
53 min
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no one is talking about this by patricia lockwood
"can’t learn? she googled late at night. can’t learn since losing my virginity?"
43 min
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snow crash by neal stephenson
"you can’t get hurt by looking at a bitmap. or can you?"
80 min
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17776 by jon bois
"don't talk shit about the lottery. the lottery rules."
39 min
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liveblog by megan boyle
trout : that's the fish.
68 min
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the novelist by jordan castro
"the cumulative amount of time i spent unintentionally scrolling through feeds, looking at things i was more thrust into than shows, was unfathomable."
69 min
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fernando sdrigotti interview (author of shitstorm)
we talk to fernando sdrigotti, author of shitstorm, about "the algorithm," the evolution of twitter, and wagatha christie.
57 min
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shitstorm by fernando sdrigotti
"another shitstorm and i can’t even and i can’t begin to and here i fixed your headline and thread and a lot of clapping between words in uppercase. there’s always a lot of clapping."
37 min
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b.r. yeager interview (author of amygdalatropolis)
we talk to b.r. yeager, author of amygdalatropolis, about transgressive fiction, edia connole, and how to pronounce gif.
51 min
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amygdalatropolis by b.r. yeager
"there was only so much of the world, and he’d seen almost all of it. even the new and novel began feeling tired and void of sense."
52 min
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darcie wilder interview (author of literally sh...
we talk to darcie wilder, author of literally show me a healthy person, about fact vs. fiction, skunks, and harmony korine.
70 min
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adam levin interview (author of the instruction...
we talk to adam levin, author of the instructions and mount chicago, about face characters, bullying, and charli xcx.
99 min
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mount chicago by adam levin
"none of this happened. none of it will. it'll all be made up. i'm making it up."
100 min
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katie runde interview (author of the shore)
we talk to katie runde, the author of the shore, about the jersey shore, boardwalk games, and catfishing your mom.
61 min
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the shore by katie runde
"going back and forth between her friends' social media posts and group texts and the gbm wives, where she pretended to be a middle-aged mom, evy felt that she wasn't any particular age anymore."
46 min
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beth morgan interview (author of a touch of jen)
we talk about the internet, exclamation points, and nicolas cage with bangs.
48 min
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a touch of jen by beth morgan
"the world is filled with signs, and no one is paying attention."
63 min