Good Scribes Only

Nov 06 2024 110 ep. 42 mins
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Good Scribes Only is a podcast featuring a novelist + venture investor (Daniel Breyer) and a novelist + founder (Jeremy Streich), who share an enthusiasm for literature. From classics to sci-fi, moderns to ancient philosophy, your hosts will ramble and banter about it all—particularly the topics they have no business discussing. Each episode dives into the craft of writing as well as questions of plot, character, theme, and philosophy in a work.

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#108🤿 The Passenger by CORMAC MCCARTHY (2022)

Nov 06 2024 56 mins  
About The Book: 980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and

#107 😗 Would You Be a Whistleblower?

Oct 31 2024 12 mins  
About The Book: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an inter

#106 🇮🇪 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Oct 26 2024 46 mins  
About The Book: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an internat

#105 🔚 Endings: the Good, the Bad, the Insanely Great

Oct 16 2024 14 mins  
About The Book: Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. Aft

#104 ☎️ Telephone by Percival Everet (2020)

Oct 10 2024 64 mins  
About The Book: Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. Aft

#103 What Your Bookshelf Says About You

Oct 03 2024 12 mins  
About The Book: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undo

#102 The Dutch House by Anne Patchett (2019)

Sep 26 2024 59 mins  
About The Book: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undo

#101 🎊 Meet the Team That Got Us to 💯 Episodes

Sep 18 2024 8 mins  
To honor 100 episodes of Good Scribes Only, we wanted to highlight a few of the people who made it possible (and easy) for us. Thank you to our team, and thanks to all you listeners out there. See y'all at 200!

#100 👯‍♀️ How Friend Groups Change Over Time

Sep 11 2024 16 mins  
About The Book: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to

#99 ❤️‍🩹 Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)

Sep 05 2024 58 mins  
About The Book: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to