Comedian and writer Zach Pugh joins host Joshua Turek to discuss Moby Dick, Don Delillo, Denis Johnson, being attracted to grimey literatrue, The Fort Bragg Cartel and Chris Hedges, the need for pretentiousness to return to our society among other things. Get Joshua's new poetry book "Ugly Whimsy" out April 10th! Preorder first edition now!

The Fort Bragg Cartel

Moby Dick

The Failures of Nonviolence

Underworld by Don Dellilo

Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges

Europe Central by William T Volman

Rainbow Stories by William T Volman

Jesus Son by Denis Johnson

Drag Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Long Live the Post Horn

it by stephen king

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Author and Comedian Amy Silverberg joins host Joshua Turek to discuss the reasons why we live creative lives, her love of books including her debut novel First Time Long Time, and Josh's impending fatherhood. Originally recorded 1/12/2026

Books Talked About Include:

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

100 years of solitude by marquez

a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan

A Confederacy of Dunces

debt by david graeber

a peoples history of the united states

grapes of wrath

So far gone by jess walter

Flesh by David Zalay

Beauty Land by Burtino

Rock Hawk by Robinson Jeffers

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkle

Middlemarch by George Elliott

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Author of "Beyond All Reasonable Doubt Jesus is Alive" Melissa Lozada-Oliva talks literary influences, books she's put down, and enjoying the act of reading before we're too old to see the pages anymore.

Books Talked About Include:

tana french

Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Debt by David Graeber

Grapes of Wrath

Autobiography of Macolm X

Somebody Walks Over Your Grave by Marian Enriquez

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin

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