Author Lauren Lavin, of the upcoming essay collection "The Third Beat", joins host Joshua Turek to talk about books her friends and contemporaries have written, comics, zines, and the mutuality of creative relationships and how they've fostered her own journey as a writer.

books talked about include:

until it feels right - emily costa

girl on girl

House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons

Comet Bus #57 by Aaron Comet Bus

I wish that there was something I could quit

popgun war - Ferrel Dalrimple

Girl in the World - Caroline Cash

It’s too late to say I’m sorry by Joey Comeau

The Girl Who Couldn’t Come - Joey Comeau

Still Alive by LJ Pemperton

Service by John Tottenham

Double Black Diamond by Miles Klee and Mads Gobbo

Lulu in Hollywood - Louise Brooks

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Host Joshua Turek is joined by guest Brian Recker, author of the new book "Hell Bent" (How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love). They discuss the books Brian read while researching his own, which details redefining his own spirituality and Christian beliefs. Discussing masculinity and softening the world, the two detail their own unique paths toward similar conclusions.

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Books Talked About Include:

Debt by David Graeber

Hell Bent by Brian Recker

Adam’s Return by Richard Rohr

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel by Renate Wind

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn

the will to change bell hooks

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Political commentator Lily Eagla joins host Joshua Turek to discuss mutual aid, retraining the offline world back into your brain, and books that radicalized her.

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books

mutual aid by dean spade

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

The Year of Living Biblically

Our American Israel

100 years was on palestine by rashid kalidi

the autobiography of malcolm x

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