Wherein the narrator finally revisits and posts a conversation with historian, New Yorker staff writer, and Harvard professor Louis Menand about his latest book THE FREE WORLD: ART AND THOUGHT IN THE COLD WAR. The narrator explains why this is the most mind-widening and -altering book he read in 2021...and then goes on to explain why it took six months for him to work up the courage to post it. 

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Wherein Louis Menand Does Me a Favor and I Pretend It Never Happened

Wherein the narrator considers the societal (sorta) and personal ramifications of having things so readily and abundantly available: chicken and pornography being the two big ones.

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Quesadillas, Pornography, Abundance

Wherein the narrator riffs in no particular direction, starting off with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, traversing it quickly, and then moseying in what sounds, looking back, like just a desperate ramble, trying not to be panicked. Subjects covered: the biggest fan of the Ninja Turtles, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how hatred is made a kind of convenience.

Ninja Turtles, Leatherface, Putin

Wherein the narrator riffs about the ideas of "game" philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, and makes a drunken decision about the Jack Reacher book he's pressured himself into reading.

NGUYEN ON EZRA KLEIN SHOW: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-c-thi-nguyen.html
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Reacher Creature Bleacher Reader

Wherein the narrator, drinking by himself while reading about the mysterious ~President's Daily Briefing~, took the ill-advised initiative of emailing the CIA and asking to borrow one.

**Bonus Reading**
"What is the PDB?": 
https://www.intelligence.gov/publics-daily-brief/presidents-daily-brief

Drank Too Much and Sent an Email to the CIA

Wherein the narrator apparently has a lot on his mind, cuz he starts off the recording by trying to do a quick correction of something he recorded the day before, but ends up riffing, for like fifteen minutes, about basically not knowing what to do now that he's not working on a book.

Nervous Oatesmeal

Wherein the narrator breaks a tooth and thinks, mistakenly, that three beers is enough alcohol to keep him from passing out at Dr. Pimple Popper.

Broken Tooth

Wherein the narrator talks about practices that might or might not be unique to the Goodwill in Little Havana, and his conviction that almost every book they sell comes from a dead person's library.

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Andy Rooney Buys Lotto in Little Havana

Wherein the narrator sits down to study Ukraine--but then takes a step back, seeing that he's falling into the same trap he fell into with COVID coverage back in 2020. 

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Day of Study: Kotkin on Ukraine & No New Thoughts on Godfather @ 50

Wherein the narrator, smitten with a very busy month full of good things, caps it off by interviewing one of his all-time favorite (and most personally influential) novelists, Don Winslow, about his new novel, CITY ON FIRE (which is absolutely incredible, and on whose recommendation I will stake my reputation).

Buy CITY ON FIRE here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094SHMHBB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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Interview with Novelist Don Winslow

In which the narrator talks with the best-selling and award-winning novelist Meg Gardiner about her latest book, HEAT 2, a collaboration with filmmaker Michael Mann that sequelizes and prequelizes his 1995 crime epic, HEAT, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer.

Here's a link to my favorite interview with Meg Gardiner, on THE STORY BLENDER podcast:
https://www.thestoryblender.com/past-recordings/meggardiner2022

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Novelist Megg Gardiner on HEAT 2

Wherein the narrator, excited and then upset with his Goodreads Year in Review, stumbles for the first time upon an uncensored copy of the Zapruder film. 

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Traumatizing Internet Videos -- Plus Goodreads' Year in Review!

Wherein the narrator riffs about Boxing Day, the weird symmetry of big fires in Kurt Vonnegut's life, and the "necessary" bummer of looking at something like Nobel laureate Saul Bellow's sad, late, Alzheimer's-induced fascination with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN.

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Saul Bellow, Succumbing to Alzheimer's, Became Obsessed with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

Wherein the narrator riffs about a kid who just broke a world record from his bedroom, and its resonance with something total strangers tell him three to five times a day at work.

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Kid Hero Breaks a 38-year Record

Walking a new route to The Abbey, his favorite bar on the beach, the narrator walks into a robbery.

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Stolen Coronas and a Trip to SoBe's Best Bar

William T. Vollmann Talks About His 3,400-page Novel, A TABLE FOR FORTUNE

Matt, from the YouTube channel "Thrift a Life," and Furious Pete from his own self-titled channel were already practiced vloggers when a lifechange came along, and with the skills and habits in tow, they brought their audience along for it.

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YouTubers in Crisis

Matt Singer @superpulse joins me for today's episode of the pod, the first after a two-week break, to discuss his wonderful biography of film critics Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and the show that changed TV, film, criticism and media.

Buy OPPOSABLE THUMBS here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710246/opposable-thumbs-by-matt-singer/

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A Conversation with Matt Singer about OPPOSABLE THUMBS, His Biography of Siskel & Ebert

George Saunders joins for a conversation about Michael Silverblatt, the former host of BOOKWORM. Silverblatt had to retire in 2022 for medical reasons, ending BOOKWORM's 33-year run. 

Saunders, one of the most venerated writers in America (TENTH OF DECEMBER, LIBERATION DAY, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO), was a regular guest on BOOKWORM starting in 1997 - and one of its most distinct. He and Silverblatt had a special relationship, chronicled across four hours of conversation you can listen to in the KCRW archive.

Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his novel LINCOLN IN THE BARDO:
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-lincoln-in-the-bardo-part-i

Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his collection TENTH OF DECEMBER:
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-tenth-of-december-part-one

Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his most recent collection of stories and essays, A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN:
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-russians-reading-writing-part-1
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George Saunders is a Bookworm: A Tribute to Michael Silverblatt

Training a new hire shed slight on a trend I've noticed in every retail/hospitality job I've ever had. 

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Training Leon, the Liar

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In Which Clint Eastwood, 94, Has an Affair

The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi.

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Experimenting with this digital tipjar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation."
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One Thing So Beautiful Nobody Wants It

Wherein the narrator talks about the latest piece by a New Yorker Magazine favorite, Jay Caspian-Kang, who talks about Donald Trump's targeting of Gen Z men: their wayward resentments, their hearts, their vote...

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Jay Caspian-Kang, Joe Rogan, and the Gen Z Gender Divide

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"Wicked" Books

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POLCAST: A New DNC Chair. Bret Stephens is Annoying.

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Wherein the narrator contends with a colleague who won't stop whistling, a masturbating shopper, and the one colleague who secretly shares his resentment.
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Burnout, Constructive Feedback, and the 5th Homeless Man I've Seen Masturbate on a Sidewalk

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Top 2 Customer Codewords for Showing How Angry They Are

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Nick Cannon's Confession

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Release date:
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Delivering Lunches While the Drones Invade

truly nolen ep comp

The first installment in a new series, interviewing Miami-based professionals about their work, today I'm speaking with Manny Sanchez, from Truly Nolen, about his nearly 20-year career in pest control. 

Special thanks to Toby Srebnik for helping to set this up!

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Fumigator Interview: Manny Sanchez from Truly Nolen

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The Letters Project

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Car Mold and Freedom and Panic

Ira Madison III, co-host of Crooked Media's "Keep It!" podcast, is the author of "Pure Innocent Fun," a collection of essays, equal parts pop culture analysis (mostly of 1990s and 2000s movies and television, stuff millennials grew up with) and coming-of-age memoir. He joins me for a talk about niche vs mono culture, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Oprah and popular culture as a bridge.

Pure Innocent Fun: Essays https://a.co/d/fl8bJtY
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Ira Madison III On His New Book, "Pure Innocent Fun"

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Miami-based, bookish, eclectic; very nervous; interviews with writers; digressions. Shower thoughts and bar banter. Anxious. You should listen.

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