Scotto reacts to J.D. Salinger's short story "Franny." The episode includes ruminations on: child prodigies, people pleasing, the power of prayer, the pain of dating someone you don't really like, the yearning for God, and much more.

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Scotto reacts to Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang's The Vegetarian.

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Scotto reacts to Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place and discusses why he hasn't been many places. This episode explores the relationship between consumers and workers, Scotto's domestic travel experiences, tourism, colonialism, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and much more.

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Scotto connects with Mary Gaitskill's Veronica.

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Scotto reacts to Karl Ove Knausgaard's "The Reenchanted World," which you can read in the June 2025 issue of Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/the-reenchanted-world-karl-ove-knausgaard-digital-age/

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Scotto reacts to a chapter from Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.

Guest episode! Rob Couch talks about reading Larry McMurtry's Moving on. You can listen to Rob's podcast about King of the Hill here: https://www.yeppodcast.com/

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