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Episode 84! We get an Art Garfunkel update and talk typewriters, airport books, and NYT "best-sellers". Marc read The Wayward Bus by Steinbeck and Trevor read Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima - or was it Murakami?

Episode 83! If you skim a book, have you really read it? We say HELL NO - Trevor has a revelation delivered via Matrix by @legroff and Marc finished reading Blindness by José Saramago

Episode 82! Marc and Trevor learn that in 2019 and 2020 they were some of the smartest people on the planet. Marc sees the potential in Blindness by Jose Saramago, and Trevor is reading London Fields by Martin Amis

Episode 81! This week Marc wraps up "Butcher's Crossing" or was is Miller's Crossing? Someone crossed something. Cormac McCarthy isn't as OG as he would have you believe. Trevor cautiously gets into Tolstoy with "Family Happiness".

Episode 80! We discover Hemingway had way too many cats. Marc read "Butcher's Crossing" by John Williams and Trevor finished up "Quiet Flows the Don" and started "The Dragonbone Chair" by @tadwilliams

Episode 79! This week we talk about a new era of the podcast, a format that hopefully be bringing you MORE EPISODES! Marc read Neuromancer by William Gibson @GreatDismal and Trevor read And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov who does not have a twitter account.

Episode 78! We talk literary Christmas gifts! Marc cheated HARD and read 3 shorts from the Arvada "Short Story Dispenser" by @ShortEdition_EN short by Henry van Dyke, Juan Rosado, and Jenny Moore! Trevor read Ghost Story by Peter Straub

Episode 77! Ursula K. Le Guin is on a stamp - Trevor ruins the intro and cracks open two classics: an Orion beer and "Tale of Two Cities" by little known author Charles Dickens - Marc read "Autumn" by Karl Ove Knausgaard...or was it Ali Smith?

Episode 76! We have HUGE NEWS! Like...super huge. Marc read the almost legitimate Ray Bradbury and his novel "The Martian Chronicles" and Trevor actually read something new! "Three Women" by @lisadtaddeo

Episode 75! Marc starts a new game of book blurbs that Trevor has to guess at, we shit on Franzen without even knowing it this time! Trevor is in a groove with Virginia Woolf and "Mrs. Dalloway" and Marc shares the pain with "Crying in H Mart" by @Jbrekkie frontwoman Michelle Zauner

Episode 73! Marc finally lets us know what his book sale haul was from a few weeks ago - Trevor read KOKO by Peter Straub and Marc read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Episode 73! Marc has some preparations to make for a yearly used book sale - Trevor read "Persuasion" by Jane Austen and Marc read "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons

Episode 72! We mix some interesting literary cocktails - Marc takes a break with Christopher Buehlman's "Those Across The River" and Trevor becomes the voice of a generation of feminists after reading "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf

Episode 71! Marc catches up on literary headlines - Trevor read Moby Dick and Marc gets back into Alexander Dumas with The Black Tulip

Episode 70! Marc gets passionate about "Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell, and Trevor is keeping in contemporary with "First Person Singular" by Haruki Murakami

Episode 69! Trevor "entroduces" the fascinating life of J. Krishnamurti and the collected book of his works "Total Freedom" - Marc gets inspired by The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Trevor talks about "In The Heart of the Sea" by @natphilbrick

Episode 68! NEW SEGMENT ALERT we bring you "Entroducing" whatever that actually means - Marc read Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" and Trevor read George Sand's "Indiana"

Episode 67! Marc painstakingly researched a new segment called "Headlines" - Trevor gets deeper into Russian lit with The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Marc is the first person to mention David Foster Wallace online

Episode 66! Marc and Trevor discuss a post about literary "red flags" - do you have any books that if someone owns or is into it's a dealbreaker? Marc read "Red Azalea" by Anchee Min and Trevor read "Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clarke. The owls are not what they seem.

Episode 65! Marc and Trevor discuss Obama's 2020 book list - Marc read James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" and Trevor read "Eugenie Grandet" by Balzac which was written a mere 30 years before the Emancipation Proclamation which was only 30 years before Alfred Hitchcock was born! Time!

Episode 64! We discuss an article by @bhurley for @electriclit about Myst and the video games that have inspired us creatively - Trevor gets deep to talk about the 3 books he has had anxiety issues with including "Underground" by Haruki Murakami, and Marc read "The Road' by Jack London

Episode 63! We talk the future of sci-fi based on an article by @TashaRobinson writing for @Polygon - Marc raided a used book sale and came up with Waiting for Godot and Trevor dives back into the un-scientific past with A Man of Misconceptions

Episode 62! We try to predict if master reader Art Garfunkel has been reading during the pandemic or if he's been slacking off like the rest of us...Trevor talks about "The Buzzing" by Jim Knipfel and Marc reaffirms a classic with "The Handmaids Tale" by @MargaretAtwood

Episode 61! We're back after a short (long) break, we discuss a Guardian article featuring Maaza Mengiste - Marc read The Overstory by Richard Powers and Trevor took Marc for his word on To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Episode 60! We analyze @magicrealismbot and have some fun - Marc and Trevor attempt to change their reading habits with black authors Paul Beatty and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie respectively

Episode 59! This week we play Morrissey vs. Wilde and Trevor fails miserably - Marc read "De Profundis", Oscar Wilde's hearth wrenching prison diary and Trevor recaps The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Episode 58! MARC RETURNS with some sleep deprived report about dinosaurs and children's books - talk about shitty! Trevor talks about little known author William Shakespeare and "The Scottish Tragedy"

Episode 57! Marc takes a break to do something incredibly special and adult-like and Trevor lectures about the benefits of Marcel Proust in this, our very first MINI-SODE!!!

Episode 56! Fate strikes again as Trevor and Marc choose the same author - JOHN BARTH! Trevor discovers why this guy is even on his shelf with "The Floating Opera" and Marc reads "Lost in the Funhouse"

Episode 55! We delve into a NYT article that reveals some truths lurking in the background of celebrity Zoom calls - Marc reads the very funny and very FREE "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome and Trevor finished "Lost Illusions" by Balzac

Episode 54! Another quarantine episode recorded from parts unknown - Trevor takes a break from Balzac to discuss "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima and Marc enters middle age with "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

Episode 53! This week we try to project into the future - what music, art, and especially BOOKS will this current century be known for? Let us know what you think is GUARANTEED to be a 21st century classic - Trevor continues "Lost Illusions" by Balzac and Marc gets a rush from "The Gambler" by Dostoevsky

Episode 52! We reach an official "year" of SBR episodes...we talk quarantine and how our reading goals are less than realized, Trevor finally got into Balzac (hehe) with "Lost Illusions" and Marc doesn't know what to think about "Till We Have Faces" by CS Lewis

Episode 51! We play another shocking round of "Styles From Nowhere" and come up w/ some interesting connections...Marc read "Roughing It" by none other than Mark Twain and Trevor read "Victory" by Joseph Conrad by way of recommendation from Joan Didion!

Episode 50! The quarantine is in full effect, but at least we can get some reading (and dare we say...writing?) done! Trevor revisits Ishiguro for the 3rd time and "Never Let Me Go" and Marc also returns to Banana Yoshimoto and her short story collection "Lizard"

Episode 49! Marc and Trevor enjoy the challenge of staying indoors indefinitely - TIME TO READ! FINALLY! Marc read "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre and Trevor burned through "Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki

Episode 48! We play another fun game of "What If..." Trevor gets obsessed with a British monarch and reads Christopher Hibbert's "George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King" and Marc contemplates what is taboo in "The Rainbow" by DH Lawrence

Episode 47! We go over some shitty stats and speculate about our fame in India...Marc read "Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill and Trevor sort of remembers Manhattan with "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin

Episode 46! We review a short story by the very talented @foreverantrim called Spudology - Trevor takes a massive break with "The Name of the Wind" by @PatrickRothfuss and Marc plays Cuphead with "Carter Beats the Devil" by Glen David Gold

Episode 45! We're back from a short break, and we cleaned up even more of Marc's book shelf! Trevor finally gets around to his favorite Murakami novel "Kafka on the Shore" and Marc presents "Room With a View" by EM Forster

Episode 44! The year of 2019 in review - which books and podcast episodes did we enjoy reading / making the most? Marc and Trevor pick their Top 5...Trevor read "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh and Marc read "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt

Episode 43! This week we advise the general public on how to catch the reading bug...Marc feels dreamy and poetic with Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan and Trevor devoured Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Episode 42! We're back from our holiday break with a discussion of book shelves - usually a long overdue purchase that comes with a bit of a PURGE - both Trevor and Marc pick the same author for the first time in podcast history - Nikolai Gogol !!!

Episode 41! We play another fun round of "What If...?" where we speculate wildly about our favorite writers - Marc wants Flann O'Brien to be his favorite author with "At Swim Two Birds" and Trevor reconciles with mortality in "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy

Episode 40! We play another round of "Elevator Pitch" - Trevor discusses the career arc of Thomas Pynchon with "Vineland" and Marc tries desperately to get into poetry with "Aurora Leigh" by Elizabeth Browning

Episode 39! We discuss fan fiction and wonder...what would be the best combinations? What is the best fan fiction out there? Marc read the ever-praised "Stoner" by John Williams and Trevor thinks Alain de Botton can cool is w/ the Proust bashing in "How Proust Can Change Your Life"

Episode 38! We talk E-Readers and review some of the vocabulary we've learned from reading...Trevor feels inspired by "A Moveable Feast" by unknown author Ernest Hemingway and Marc is reminded of his creativity with "Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon

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Episode 36! This week we discuss books we've given the ultimate insult to: stopping in the middle - Trevor engages in espionage with John Le Carre and "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" and Marc isnt really sure what YA is with "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K Le Guin

Episode 35! This week we talk about the "different" books we have like art, coffee table, and reference books - Marc is almost completely devastated by "Something Happened" by Joseph Heller and Trevor revisits Truman Capote and "A Hard Day's Work"

Episode 34! This week we play another game of "First In Last Out" with some interesting results...Trevor tells us more about Emile Zola than he does about "La Bete Humaine" and Marc reads the suicide note otherwise known as "Leaving Las Vegas" by John O'Brien