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19 episodes
5 days ago
Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best.
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Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best.
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"There Is No Place For Us" with Brian Goldstone

Whoops! We skipped a month. Consider it our summer vacation. But we’ve got a big one this episode.

Here’s the deal: if there is one book you should read this year it’s Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” The book is an incredible work of journalism as it “…follows five families in Atlanta as they struggle to find stable housing while navigating low-wage work, predatory landlords, a lack of tenant protections, and a system that prioritizes profit over people's basic need for a home.” We’re honored to have Brian on the pod with us to talk about his experience writing such an emotionally taxing work. 

But first: James Joyce’s love for farts. 




Intro:

Olga Tokarczuk - The Empusium

Joyce Carol Oates - Fox

V.E. Schwab - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

S.A. Cosby - King of Ashes

Jess Walter - So Far Gone 

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins 

JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Series 

James Joyce - The Selected Letters of James Joyce 

Brian Goldstone - There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

Hugh Raffles - The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time

Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Adrian Nicole Leblanc - Random Family 

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Matthew Desmond

Rachel Aviv

Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed 

Peter Rossi- Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness

Ezra Klein - Abundance 

Toni Morrison - The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

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2 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes 7 seconds

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"Let's go to Danzig's House" with Dan Ozzi

Ocean Vuong fans beware, Nolan has SOMETHING TO SAY about Emperor of Gladness. After weeks venting in the chat he's finally able to let it out on air. After that we're joined by Dan Ozzi, the best-selling author of Sellout, co-author of Fahrenheit 182 (Mark Hoppus' memoir) and co-author of Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!'s memoir). And some special shit talking on James Frey. What we do best!


Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Ocean Vuong - Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 

Keith McNally - I Regret Almost Everything

Kevin Nguyen - My Documents

Natsu Kirino - Out 

Tash Aw - The South 

Lori - OstlundAre You Happy?

Maxin Loskutoff - Old King

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 

Dan Ozzi - Sell out 

Mark Hoppus with Dan Ozzi - Fahrenheit 182

Laura Jane Grace with Dan Ozzi - Tranny

Nick Tosches - Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

Our band could be your life

Larry Livermore: How To Ru(i)n A Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records 

Silke Tudor & Jack Boulware - Gimme Something Better 

Peter Guralnick - Last Train To Memphis

Sam McPheeters - Mutations

Scott McClanahan - The Incantations of Daniel Johnston 

Lawrence Burney - No Sense in Wishing

Bud Smith - Teenager

Sinéad O’Connor - Rememberings

Steve-O - Professional Idiot

Pamela Anderson - Love, Pamela

State by State with the State

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4 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 27 seconds

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"George Orwell, Get Me Outta Here!" with Mitra Jouhari

Shanon and Nolan dive into our recent Homesteading obsession and chat with the very funny (with the best laugh) writer and actor Mitra Jouhari about her journey from The Daily Show to Big Mouth – plus her very questionable, very intense Anne Frank phase.


Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones

Stag Dance - Torrey Peters

The Antidote - Karen Russell

Open, Heaven - Seán Hewitt

The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

Ocean Vuong - The Emperor of Gladness

The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides

Intersex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Fresh Complaint - Jeffrey Eugenides

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

The Lying Game - Ruth Ware

The Coin - Yasmin Zaher

The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden

Stay True - Hua Hsu

The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

Night - Elie Wiesel

Atonement - Ian McEwen 

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

On Writing - Steven King

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5 months ago
1 hour 18 seconds

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"Ghosted by Stevie Wonder" with Cord Jefferson

This one’s a long-time-coming! We finally have our buddy, Cord Jefferson, on the pod. We know Cord from our NY days when he was at Gawker but you might know him from winning an Oscar for adapted screenplay for American Fiction, which he also directed and which was based on Perceival Everett’s Erasure. Cord also won an Emmy for writing that really good episode of The Watchmen about the Tulsa Massacre. We talk to him about possibly winning an E-G-O, desert noir, how much of a badass Perceival Everett is and much more. 


Books and Authors Mentioned in this Episode:

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity

Dave Eggers - What is the What

Christina Rivera Garza - Death Takes Me

Allegra Goodman - Isola

Charlotte McConaghy - Wild Dark Shore

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count 

Tory Peters - Stag Dance

Tory Peters - Detransition, Baby

Leila Lalami - Dream Hotel

Leila Lalami - The Other Americans

Percival Everett - Erasure

Alan Moore - Watchmen

Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven 

Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident

Percival Everett - God’s Country

Percival Everett - James 

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Maxim Luskatoff - Old King 

Lion Feuchtwanger - The Oppermanns

Sebastian Haffner - Defying Hitler

James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room

Philip Roth - The Human Stain 

James McBride - The Good Lord Bird

Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets 

Isaac Asimov - Foundation

Ted Chiang - Exhalation

Kurt Vonnegut


Follow Cord: @cordjefferson

Follow Us: @youshouldprobablyreadmore


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7 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 29 seconds

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"CRIME DADDY" with Jordan Harper

We did it. We got our new favorite Crime Daddy on the pod.

Jordan Harper joins us to talk LA, Punks vs Nazis, the Ozarks and Noir. We love him.


RIP to Nolan's cat Edie & Jordan's dog Ellroy


Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett 

The Vegetarian - Han Kang 

We Do Not Part - Han Kang

The Last King of California  - Jordan Harper 

Everything Must Go: Stories We Tell Ourselves About the End of the World - Dorian Lynskey 

Gliff - Ali Smith

Witchcraft For Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix 

My Best Friend’s Exorcism - Grady Hendrix

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix

The obscene bird of night - José Donoso

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez

Playworld - Adam Ross

Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros

The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA - Jesse Katz

Harriet The Spy - Louise Fitzhugh

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Great Brain (Series) - John Dennis Fitzgerald

Stephen King 

Hunter S Thompson 

The Drifters - James A. Michener 

LA Confidential - James Ellroy

Cormac McCarthy

Red Riding (Series) - David Peace

S.A. Cosby

Dare Me - Megan Abbott

Beware the Woman - Megan Abbott 

The Contortionist’s Handbook - Craig Clevenger

Everybody Knows - Jordan Harper

David Sedaris

James Baldwin

Mary Shelley


Follow Jordan online at @jordan_harper_Yo

and follow us @youshouldprobablyreadmore


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8 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 28 seconds

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Best of 2024 with Addison Kirst (des pair books)

When we say Best of the Year we mean the WHOLE damn year (we need all the time we can get to read all the books from all the other lists!) so here it is, in mid-January, our Best of 2024 roundup. We’re joined by a very special guest, our friend and fellow bookclub member, Addison Kirst, owner of des pair books in Echo Park, Los Angeles. 


Books and Authors mentioned in this Episode:


Sally Rooney - Intermezzo


Percival Everett - James 


Miranda July - All Fours 


Richard Flanagan - Question 7


Yael vanderwooten - The Safe Keep


Trisha Romano - The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture


Dolly Atherton - Good Material


Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma 


Robert Plunket - Love junkie


Louis Ferdinand Celine - War 


 Elizabeth Beller - Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy


Kaveh Akbar - Martyr! 


Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake


Garth Greenwell - Small rain


Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


William Faulkner 


 Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night


H.G. Wells


Rebecca West


Anton Chekhov


Richard Flanagan - Death of a River Guide 


Rick Rubin - The Creative Act: A Way of Being


Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black


Sofia Coppola - Archive


Simone de Beauvoir - The Woman Destroyed 


 Otessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World 


James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room 


Eve Babitz - Sex and Rage  


Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses 


Bram Stoker - Dracula 


Mary Shelley - Frankenstein 


Salman Rushdie - Knife -


Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the Sky  


Liz Moore - God of the Woods 


Martin MacInnes - In Ascension


Charles Burns - Final Cut


Danzy Senna - Color Television


Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection


Jordan Harper - Last King of California 


Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension


Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity 


Magda Szabo


Stacy Horn - Killing fields of East New York


Nicholas Carr - Superbloom 


Karen Russell - The Antidote 


Sarah Silgar - Vantage Point  


Ali Smith - Gliff


Emma pattee - Tilt 


Han Kang - We Do Not Part 


Florence Knapp - The Names 


Joyce Carol Oates - Fox / Butcher


Rebecca Yarros - Onyx Storm


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count


S A Cosby - King of Ashes


Jon Savage -  The Secret Public


Samantha Harvey - Orbital




Got something to say? Hit us up at @youshouldprobablyreadmore

Buy your books from @despairbooks

www.despairbooks.com

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9 months ago
49 minutes 48 seconds

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Our One Year Anniversary

It’s our One Year Anniversary! Thank you all for listening to our lil pod this past year and for your comments and engagement with it. It's been really fun talking (and shit-talking) books and we're excited to continue this into next year- starting with our "Best of 24" list in January (you know we take every day we can get to try to get through all of these!). 


This episode is just Shanon and Nolan- discussing the books we’re reading, Luigi, Cormac & other book news plus a hot new crime author daddy we’re obsessed with. 


Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:


Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People 

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 

Jason de Leon - Soldiers and Kings 

Jordan Harper - Last King of California 

Jordan Harper - She Rides Shotgun

Jordan Harper - Everybody Knows 

Dr. Seuss - The Lorax

100 Years War on Palestine 

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Glenn Beck - A Christmas Sweater

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10 months ago
43 minutes 7 seconds

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"Sell Your Tesla" with Tony Tulathimutte

Welp...we recorded this one before the election. But don't worry we cut out all the hopeful parts!

Surprise Surprise, Shanon and Nolan both have a new favorite book of the year + a special election edition of Bad Reads. Then they're joined by Tony Tulathimutte to discuss the agony of writing his insanely popular book, “Rejection.”


Books and Authors discussed in this episode:

Kamala Harris - The Truths We Hold

Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal

Dick Cheney - In My Time

Walter Isaakson - Elon Musk

Elif Shafak - There are rivers in the Sky 

Tamora Pierce - The Song of the Lioness series 

Tony - Rejection 

Tony - Private Citizens 

Mark Leary - Interpersonal Rejection

Philip Roth books 

Roald Dahl books 

Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories from Wayside School




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11 months ago
54 minutes 44 seconds

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"Get a Diary, God!" with Kerry Howley

This one's a doozy! Shanon and Nolan discuss Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney and Miranda July (All Fours lovers beware, Shanon goes on a tirade against Miranda July’s new novel and Nolan just doesn’t like her. Don’t hate us!) before being joined by critically acclaimed author and New York Mag feature writer, the wonderful Kerry Howley. 



Books and Authors mentioned in the episode: 

Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner - Mars Room

Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

Garth Greenwell - Small Rain

Danzy Senna - Colored Television 

Connie Chung - Connie

Ta’Nehisi Coates - The Message

Louise Erdrich - The Mighty Red

Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection

Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place For Shady People

Garth Green-well - Small Rain

Garth Greenwell - Cleanness

Joan Didion

Richard Rodriguez

Rachel Yoder - Night Bitch

Sarah Viren - Mine

Somerset Maugham - A Razor’s Edge

Edith Wharton - The Buccaneers 

Sabine Hossenfelder - Existential Physics

Christian Wiman - Zero At The Bone

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Michael Clune - White Out

Monica Furlong - Wise Child 

Sharon Creesh - Love That Dog

Sara Pennypacker - Pax



Follow Kerry:

https://x.com/KerryHowley

https://www.kerryhowley.com/

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1 year ago
1 hour 2 minutes 57 seconds

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"Talking Shit About Books is Good for Books" with Traci Thomas (The Stacks Podcast)

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Traci Thomas, creator and host of The Stacks, a podcast on books and reading that is far superior to our own! Per the episode title shit talking ensues. But it's good!


Books and Authors mentioned in the episode:

Katherine Dunn - Geek Love

Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses

Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Demon

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Human

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Laci Mosley - Scam Goddess

Adania Shibli - Minor Detail

Salman Rushdie - Knife

Samantha Irby

Elizabeth Flock - The Fluries

Jamie Loftess - Raw Dog

Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Isabelle Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns

Kiese Layman - Heavy

E. B. White - Charlotte’s Web

Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Chris Herring - Blood in the Garden

Keith O’Brian - Charlie Hustle

Tommy Orange - There There

Louise Erdrich

Sherman Alexie

Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys

Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing

Michael Pollan - The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jonathan Safran Foer

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

Percival Everett - James

Liz Moore - The God of the Woods

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

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1 year ago
1 hour 3 minutes 50 seconds

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"The Best Books of the Century?" with Shanon & Nolan

Shanon and Nolan discuss (with little to no preparation) the 100 Best Books of The 21st Century as chosen by the NYT Book Review.


Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Robert Caro - The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease To Understand the World

NK Jeminsin - The Fifth Season

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

Hernan Diaz - Trust

Hernan Diaz - In The Distance

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Anthony Doerr - All The Light We Cannot See

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow 

Charles Burns - Black Hole

David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah 

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay

Min Jin Lee - Pachinko 

Tara Westover - Educated

Roberto Bolaño - 2666

George Saunders - Lincoln In The Bardo

Isabelle Wilkerson - Warmth of Other Suns

Isabelle Wilkerson - Caste

Matthew Desmond - Evicted

Hillary Mantel - Wolf Hall


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1 year ago
18 minutes 34 seconds

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"Where's the Poetry in This?" with Ross Farrar (of Ceremony)

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Ceremony frontman, poet, Bay Area legend and very well read dude, Ross Farrar. 


Books and Authors mentioned in the episode: 

Liz Moore - The God of the Woods

AJ Dunno - In Waves

Alexander Sammartino - Last Acts

George Saunders

Delmore Shwartz

Fredrick Seidel

Jenny Offill - Dept of Speculation

Jenny Offill - Speedboat

James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time

William Matthews - Time and Money

John Berryman - The Dream Songs

Terrance Hayes

Morgan Parker

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

David Hawkins - Power vs. Force

David Hawkins - Letting Go

David Hawkins - Transcending the Levels of Consciousness

Geoff Rickly - Someone Who Isn’t Me

JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey

American Short Story Masterpieces - Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks


For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com


Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 


This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 


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1 year ago
55 minutes 31 seconds

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"Fantasy, Basketball & Feelings" with Katie Heindl

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Toronto-based writer, journalist and basketball enthusiast, Katie Heindl. We're talkin' books that make us cry, fantasy favorites, and why sports writing needs a makeover.


Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Amor Towles - Dinner For Two

Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards

David Grann - The Wager

Elizabeth O’Connor - Whale Fall

Jhumpa Lahiri - Roman Stories

Alice Munro 

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Any Patchett - The Red House

Annie Proulx - Barkskins

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

André Aciman - Call Me By Your Name

Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Mariam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Ursula K Le Guin

John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead

Louisa Thomas

Sam Smith - Jordan Rules

Shea Serrano - Basketball (and Other Things)

Richard Adams - Watership Down

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Samantha Shannon - Priory of the Orange Tree

Tamora Pierce - Alanna: The First Adventure

Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass

Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

Charles Bukowski

William S Burroughs

Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel

Chris Bosh - Letters to a Young Athlete

Kent Karuf - Plainsong

Jane Smiley

David James Duncan 

Stacey Abrams

Flannery O’Connor - Wise Blood

Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet 


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Find Katie online @wtevs (X) + @basketball.feelings (IG)

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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1 year ago
49 minutes 1 second

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"Getting Pegged By Rachel Maddow" with Ryan O'Connell

Shanon and Nolan are joined by writer, actor, director, comedian, and LGBTQ activist Ryan O’Connell. We talk shit about books we don’t like and then talk shit about how no one talks shit about books they don’t like any more; plus why “Andy Cohen’s Diaries” is Ryan’s “A Little Life.”


Books mentioned in this episode:

Liu Cixin - Three Body Problem

David Benioff - City of Thieves

David Benioff - 25th Hour

Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz

Téa Obreht - The Morningside

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Percival Everett - James

Patrick Rothfuss - Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man’s Fears

Ryan O’Connell - I’m Special: and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

Ryan O’Connell - Just By Looking At Him

Alexandra Tanner - Worry

Leslie Jamison - Splinters

Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening

R. F. Kuang - Yellowface

Jean Hanff Korelitz - The Plot

Lauren Oyler - No Judgement

Laurie Moore - Self-Help

Andy Cohen - The Andy Cohen Diaries

Rebecca Makai - The Great Believers

Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

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Find Ryan online @ryanoconn

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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1 year ago
52 minutes 21 seconds

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"The Audacity of Amelia Bedelia" with Brontez Purnell

On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan can’t wait to spoil Dune 2 for you (jk). After that we’re joined by author, poet, musician and Bay Area icon Brontez Purnell to discuss his new memoir in verse, “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt,” and why M.I.A is a colonizer.



Frank Herbert - Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz

Sven Holm - Termush

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt

Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Bernadette Mayers

Peggy Parish, Herman Parish - Amelia Bedelia 

Justin Torres - Blackouts 

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Find Brontez online @brontezpurnell

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 


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1 year ago
37 minutes 58 seconds

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The Cool Dad's Book Club with Kevin "Spanky" Long & Nikolai Haas

Shanon and Nolan are joined by pro skater Kevin “Spanky” Long and artist Nikolai "Niki" Haas. Together, these Sensitive Bros™ are part of a dad’s book club where they read feminist tomes (among other things). Try not to swoon as we talk about feelings and what makes Agatha Christie marriage material.


Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Hernan Diaz - Trust

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening

Sarah J Maas - The House of Flame and Shadow

The Odyssey - Emily Wilson Translation

bell hooks - The Will to Change

Sam Harris - Free Will

Emma Cline - The Guest

Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves

Donna Tart - Secret History

Donna Tart - The Goldfinch

Donna Tart - The Little Friend

Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye

James Jones - The Thin Red Line


Find Spanky and Nikolai online at @kevinspankylong

& @nikolaihaas @thehaasbrothers


For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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1 year ago
40 minutes 31 seconds

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Our Favorites of 2023

It's a one on one episode in which Shanon & Nolan discuss their favorite books of 2023 (mostly murder, dystopian prisons and heartfelt stories) and what they’re looking forward to in 2024 (mostly murder, stabbings, dystopian climate change, and even some basketball).


2023

James McBride - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Daniel Mason - North Woods

SA Cosby - All The Sinners Bleed

Justin Torres - Blackouts

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars

Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger

Kerry Howley - Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs

Héctor Tobar - Migrant Souls

Britney Spears - The Woman In Me

Rachel Maddow - Prequel


2024

Salman Rushdie - Knife

Amor Towles - Table for Two

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Hanif Abdurraqib - There’s Always This Year

Percival Everett - Jim

Téa Obreht - The Morningside

Richard Powers - Playground


For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com


Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 


This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 


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1 year ago
23 minutes 48 seconds

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"From Root to Tip" with Tracie Egan Morrissey

On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan are joined by Tracie Egan Morrissey (@traciemorrissey) noted beautiful person, internet sleuth, author, and co-host of Pot Psychology for some celebrity memoir banter, spank bank moments, and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill.


Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

Justin Torres - Blackouts

David Grann - The Wager

Naomi Alderman - The Future

Rebecca Yarros - Iron Flame

Tracie Egan Morrissey and Rich Juzwiak - Pot Psychology’s How to Be: Lowbrow Advice from High People

Mariah Carey - The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

VC Andrews

Brett Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero

Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs

Lisa Taddeo - Animal

Lisa Taddeo - Three women

Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain

Miles Davis - The Autobiography

Alan Moore - From Hell

Jeff Smith - Bone

Brian K Vaughan - Y: The Last Man

Brian K Vaughan - Paper Girls

Frank Miller - Batman: Year One

Alan Moore - Watchmen

Jim Starlin - The Infinity War

Katherine Dunn - Geek Love

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life


As mentioned in the episode, listeners can get 15% off products in Tracie's store pipedreams.fun with code Reading


Find Tracie at @traciemorrissey and at @potpsychology

& listen to the podcast Pot Psychology


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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 


This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 


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"Dickmatized by the Brothers Karamazov" with Caroline Goldfarb

Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best. On this inaugural episode they’re joined by Caroline Goldfarb @officialseanpenn noted library card holder and avid kindle reader for some Beauty and the Beast banter and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill. Welcome to You Should Probably Read More!


Books mentioned in this episode:


Cormac McCarthy - Suttree

Alexander Dumas - Three Musketeers

Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac

Pema Chödrön - How We Live Is How We Die

Sam Knight - Premonitions Bureau

Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger

David Grann - The Squid Hunger (New Yorker, 2004)

John Ronson - Lost at Sea

Emma Clint - The Guest

Marisa Meltzer - Glossy 

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Alice Robb - Don’t Think, Dear 

Adam Chandler - Drive-Through Dreams 

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Williams Faulkner - Light in August 

J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing


For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or email youshouldprobablyreadmore@gmail.com


Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 


This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 


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40 minutes 46 seconds

You Should Probably Read More
Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best.