Episode links:

• Andrea Long Chu on Lapvona

• Katie Kadue on Didion & Babitz


• Grace Byron on Ponyboy


• Leah on Brat


• Leah on Worry


• The Cut 50k Scam


• The Case for Marrying an Older Man

Every book we mentioned, categorized, and judged!!

• Bad Witches by HB Akumiah


• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 


• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte


• Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow


• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett


• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix


• Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh


• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh


• Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh


• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver


• Molly by Blake Butler


• Death Valley by Melissa Broder


• My First Book by Honor Levy


• Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik


• Parade by Rachel Cusk


• The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk


• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney


• Brat by Gabriel Smith


• I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel


• The Idiot by Elif Batuman


• Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler


• Earth Angels by Madeline Cash


• Funny Story by Emily Henry


• The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore, duh


• Easter Parade by Richard Yates


• Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham


• Fan Fiction by Tavi Gevinson


• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher


• Woo Woo by Ella Baxter


• Fire Exit by Morgan Talty


• Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan


• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James


• Portrait of a Lady by Henry James


• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert


• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov


• The Human Stain by Philip Roth


• The World is a Wedding by Delmore Schwartz


• Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux


• A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux


• A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux


• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor


• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka


• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh


• Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector


• Martyr by Kaveh Akbar


• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky


• Oreo by Fran Ross


• Herculine by Grace Byron


• Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood


• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy


• Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro


• Stag Dance by Torrey Peters


• Worry by Alexandra Tanner


• Authority by Andrea Long Chu