Matt McCusker is a comedian, writer, author and podcaster.
Expect to learn what Chris’ raccoon wars are all about, Matt reacts to Tolstoy’s diary entries and the Lindsay Clancy trial, what Matt’s former life as an ethical drug dealer was like, the great joys of becoming a father, Matt’s thoughts on the fake 49ers football player, why Matt would make for a poor private investigator and much more…
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For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offe…
“Yeah. I read, it's called, a swim and a pond in the rain. And it's basically nine short stories, Russian short stories.”
The Harry Potter books throw you into an amazing fantasy world of witches and wizards, spells, magical creatures, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and a school of witchcraft and wizardry called Hogwarts. In this school Harry Po…
<p><i>Orthodoxy</i> is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton">G. K. Chesterton’s</a> response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/eb…
“He, uh, I love reading his essays and he, he has this book. I'm reading right now called orthodoxy or he started out being like, I'm about to come up there.”
Offers an adaptation in graphic novel format of a modern classic about the globe-trotting spiritual journey of a humble shepherd boy.
“Yeah. The, um, the alchemist by Paula Cuello. Uh, I, that was like the first book I read.”