We read read truly one of the most baffling books we've ever tackled with special guest Sophie Abromowitz! Oh and a Wheel of Time cut chapter too.
Sophie's Vampire Short Story: https://thebrooklynreview.com/2025/10/31/rules-for-vampires-sophie-abromowitz/
Sophie Substack: https://abromowitz.substack.com/
Seriously everyone check these out, Sophie has very quickly become one of my favorite writers.
Sophie Website: https://sophie-abromowitz.com/
Content warnings for this episode: auditory hallucinations, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, cheating/infidelity, child endangerment, child death, conspiracies, death, duels, gender dysphoria, god kings, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, nuclear weapons, oligarchy, prisons, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, tech billionaires, torture, undeath, wounds, xenophobia
Next month we'll be reading Steelheart! Episode airs, November 18th.
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The Coen Brothers Intolerable Cruelty
Milwaukee PD Surviving Edged Weapons - Content Warnings Abound here
God Emperor of Dune
Wii Sports Resort
Guilty Gear
Guild Wars 2 - Ghosts and Ascalon and The Sea of Sorrows
The Book of Atrus - Myst - Rand Miller
Revenge of the Sith - Russel Stover
Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis - Giri Nathan
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! - Melissa Lozada-Oliva
The West Passage - Jared Pechaček
Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.
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