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- ⁠Sign up for the Anna Karenina book club⁠

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- ⁠Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy⁠

- Leah in The Baffler

- Bad Witches by H.B. Akumiah

- Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

- Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

- Muscle Man by Jordan Castro 

- The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy 

- Inside the ‘Anti-Woke’ Literary Scene Growing in L.A. in Rolling Stone

Episode Links:

- Follow us on Instagram

- Join our Patreon

- Sign up for the Anna Karenina book club

- Join the Anna Karenina Discord

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

- War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy

- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Vladimir Nabokov’s lecture on Anna Karenin (1877)

• Bad Witches by Heather :) 
• Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu 
• The Jordan Show 
• Do You Want to Be Famous? in Interview Mag
• AJ Radico 
• Angel Food Magazine 
• Henry James’ Ghost Stories by Virginia Woolf (page 64) 
• The Egg and the Chicken by Clarice Lispector 
• Where Are You Going, Where Have Your Been? By Joyce Carol Oates
• The Guest by Emma Cline 
• Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein 
• My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino 
• How I Quit Having A Grudge Against Lena Dunham by Emily Gould in The Cut 
• Friendship by Emily Gould 
• Emily Gould Elle Profile (not NYT), Emily Gould NYT Profile ft. LD mention , Emily Gould on LD Again
• Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti 
• Jean-Michel Basqiuat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Greg Tate 
• Our Funeral by Stephanie Wambugu in The Dirt
• Washington Square by Henry James 
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

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• Noah Kulwin on The Brutalist 

• Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali 

• Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood

• Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein

Episode Links:

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han 
• Songs of No Provenance Lydi Conklin 
• All of Izzy’s gorgeous published work

Episode links:

• Andrea Long Chu on Lapvona

• Katie Kadue on Didion & Babitz
• Grace Byron on Ponyboy
• Leah on Brat
• Leah on Worry
• The Cut 50k Scam
• The Case for Marrying an Older Man

Every book we mentioned, categorized, and judged!!

• Bad Witches by HB Akumiah
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
• Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
• Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Molly by Blake Butler
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• My First Book by Honor Levy
• Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik
• Parade by Rachel Cusk
• The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
• Brat by Gabriel Smith
• I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman
• Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
• Earth Angels by Madeline Cash
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore, duh
• Easter Parade by Richard Yates
• Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
• Fan Fiction by Tavi Gevinson
• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
• Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
• Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
• Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• The World is a Wedding by Delmore Schwartz
• Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
• A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux
• A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
• Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Oreo by Fran Ross
• Herculine by Grace Byron
• Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
• Worry by Alexandra Tanner
• Authority by Andrea Long Chu

Episode Links:

• Phillip Roth stories and links
• Lilly Jay essay in The Cut
• Luigi Mangione's Goodreads

Episode links

• Eliza’s Substack 

• Augusta Britt profile in VF
• Vincenzo Barney Slate interview
• Dean Kissick anti-woke tantrum in Harper’s 
• Oh please like you haven’t seen the meme
• Hit tweet idc idc

Episode Links

• Bad Witches by Heather
• Honey by Isabel Banta
• Exit Right by Gabrial Winant in Dissent 
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Good Girl by Aria Aber
• Phantasma by Kylie Smith
• Bernie election response

Sorry about the audio quality!! What do we look like to you, professional podcasters?!

Episode links:

• Heather in Haloscope Mag
• See Friendship by Jeremy Gordon  
• Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gordon
• Audrey in Catapult

We talk to Courtney Preiss, author of Welcome Home, Caroline Kline.

Episode links:

• Buy Bad Witches
• ⁠Bookmark Shoppe x Bad Witches Book Club⁠
• Leah Talks Sally Rooney in Airmail
• ⁠Leah Reviews Abolish Everything Comedy Show for Jezebel⁠
• Heather Figures Out Why the Witches Are Fighting in Mixed Feelings
• Heather on Books Are Magic Podcast
• Leah Interviews Tony for Interview Mag
• TikTok Review of BW (but wait?!! There are more?!?!: here and here). 
• Brendon Interviews the Creators of Industry
• Legs Get Lead Astray by Chloe Caldwell
• Women by Chloe Caldwell 
• 1000 Words of Summer
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison 
• The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
• Nothing Serious by Emily J. Smith

We talk to Grace Byron about Sally Rooney's new novel.

Episode links:

• Lorde x Jack Antonoff Powerpoint
• Brandon Taylor on the IKEA novel

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• Follow us on Instagram⁠
• ⁠Subscribe to our Patreon⁠
• ⁠Buy Heather’s book
• Follow Andrew on Instagram

• Buy Andrew’s book, Something Rotten 
• Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
• The Stalker by Paula Bomer
• Jordan Show
• Open Book Club Substack on AI Romance 
• The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein 
• Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein
• The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
• The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod
• DisneyWar by James B Stewart 
• Blood Sport: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House by James B Stewart 
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Episode Links:

• Order Bad Witches
• Join the Philip Roth Reading Club
• Eleanor by Caitlin McCormick
• Grace Byron on Doll Invasion
• Mizz Book Wellington
• Alma by Junot Diaz
• Sea Oak by George Saunders
• Brownies by ZZ Packer

Episode Links:

⁠⁠Limo RSVP ⁠⁠

⁠Preorder Bad Witches ⁠

⁠Greenlight RSVP⁠

There I Almost Am by Jean Garnett

Scenes from an Open Marriage

New Yorker Critics at Large Podcast

Worry by Alexandra Tanner

Bitter North by Alexandra Tanner in Granta

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

We talk to writer Adlan Jackson.

Here are the episode links:

• *** Bad Witches preorder ***
• Heather's event at Greenlight books
• Leah on Brat by Gabriel Smith
• Hannah Tennant-Moore on Rachel Cusk
• There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.
• The TikTok NPC Streamers of SoHo by Adlan Jackson
• Study Hall
• Eric Adams and the Table of Success
• Hot & Single
• Subway Oracle
• Subway Takes
• How ‘What’s Poppin?’ and ‘Subway Oracle’ Turn NYC Into TikTok’s Tinseltown by Adlan Jackson
• Your newest Instagram obsession is this tulip farm in New Jersey by Adlan Jackson
• Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini

• Taylor Lorenz on the Schmacked Guy
• Narcissist by Crisis Public Relations

We talk to fiction writer Ruben Reyes Jr.

Episode Links:

• There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.
• Bad Witches by H.B. Akumiah
• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
• The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera
• Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez
• Pagebreak
• Couple to Throuple

We talk to multi-hyphenate artist River Ramirez.

Links:

• Bad Witches Preorder
• Opening Theory by Sally Rooney
• Brandon Taylor craft essay 1
• Brandon Taylor craft essay 2
• Not on the List by River Ramirez
• 27 Playlists by River Ramirez
• All Fours by Miranda July
• The Shamanic Bones of Zen
• A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau

We talk to writer Christina Cooke.

Links:

Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke

Alice Munro Was Bad Part 1

Alice Munro Was Bad Part 2

Oye by Melissa Mogollon

Bad Witches Preorder⁠

Leah in Angelfood

We talk to writer Caitlin McCormick.

Links to everything we mentioned in this ep:

• ​Leah in Angel Food Mag
• ​PREORDER BAD WITCHES
• ​Caitlin's Modern Love
• ​Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
• ​Love Poems of Catullus
• ​Florida by Lauren Groff
• ​The Swimmer by John Cheever
• ​Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In honor of queen Alice Munro's passing, we spent an hour yapping about Heather's five favorite Alice Munro stories! Catch up on the reading before you listen!

We talk to journalist Brock Colyar.

Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke

Brock's infamous column, Are U Coming

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Lili Anolik on Joan Didion & Eve Babitz in Vanity Fair

Once Upon A Time At Bennington

NYT Dimes Square Article

Saturday Night by Susan Orlean

We talk to writer and literary assistant Thomas Mar Wee.

PREORDER HEATHER'S BOOK, BAD WITCHES, HERE

Leah's Interview with Alanna Saab on Dirt

Alice Munro Stories for Mini Book Club (yes they can be slow but trust the process): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UPywVB_eQDcWTmWtjZhG-61UXmuU6sKd?usp=drive_link

Books & Other Media We Mentioned:

• The Real Victims of Baby Reindeer - Today Explained
• Brat by Gabriel Smith
• Simple Passion Annie Ernaux
• Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
• Christian Lorentzen on Alice Munro
• Nine Stories by JD Salinger
• Mating by Norman Rush
• Why is Everyone Reading Mating by Norman Rush? - NYT (unpaywalled)
• Jason Alexander Reads Conversion of the Jews - The Paris Review Podcast
• The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

Episode Links:

• Follow us on Instagram

• Subscribe to our Patreon

• Buy Heather’s book
• Follow Rob on Instagram 
• Buy Rob's book

• The Ghostwriter by Phillip Roth

• Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
• Set Pace directed by Daisy Ifama
• Blackouts by Justin Torres 
• Crush by Richard Siken 
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 
• The Emails of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer
• Streets have said for some time that JSF left Nicole Krauss for Natalie Portman… 
• Reply All Episode about The Emails
• Soft Core by Brittany Newell 
• Oola by Brittany Newell
• Ponyboy Elliot Duncan 
• JSF and Natalie Portman emails
• Information Age by Cora Lewis
• Luster by Raven Leilani
• A Separation by Katie Kitamura
• Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Alicia Mtn’s Instagram 
• Ashley D Escobar’s Instagram
• Blessings and Disasters by Alexis Okeowo
• Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 

We talk to writer Noella WIlliams.

Here's everything we mentioned:

• El BBL (idk what genre this is enlighten me)
• Big Plays Carrie One Last Time
• Leah on MILF Manor in The Drift
• Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
• Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
• Noella Interviews India Bradley for Marie Claire
• Hate Read Essay About Media Parties
• No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy
• Worry by Alexandra Tanner
• Mixed Feelings

We talk to writer Grace Byron.

Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

A Simple Passion

Kendrick/Drake stuff if you're not bored yet

We talk to writer Gaby Del Valle.

Tradwife story in Baffler

We talk to fiction writer Alec Niedenthal.

Great Expectations

The Easter Parade

Fan Fiction

We talk to writer Emily Zhou.

Buy Girlfriends by Emily here

Read the NYT piece on the readings renaissance (featuring yours truly!!) here

We talk to writer and actor Jules Rivera.

Jules' Substack

China Brain by Andrea Long Chu

We talk to journalist Danya Issawi. 

We talk to fiction writer Tony Tulathimutte.

• A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Conner 
• Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky 
• Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
• Today Explained - All the Sad Young Literary Men
• Leah’s interview of Tony T in Interview Mag 
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 
• Ahegao by Tony Tulathimutte 
• Ama Kwarteng Reviews The Guest in LARB
• The Guest by Emma Cline
• Beloved by Toni Morrison 
• Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth 

• Ama’s book club with McNally Jackson 
• How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto 
• Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott 
• White Out by Michael W. Clune 
• Rent Boy by Gary Indiana 
• Office Politics by Wilfred Sheed
• Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke
• Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
• Playworld by Adam Ross
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 

Episode links:

• ​LIMOUSINE PATREON 
• ​Leah in Vogue 
• ​Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College in NYMag
• ​Why I Broke Up With New York in The New Yorker
• ​It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl in The Cut
• ​The Romance of Being Unreadable in Vulture
• ​Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace 
• ​Eliza McLamb on IG
• ​Eliza’s music
• ​Eliza’s Substack 
• ​Binchtopia podcast 
• ​The Double Standard of Aging by Susan Sontag
• ​Reply All 
• ​Critics at Large
• ​Sentimental Garbage
• ​Continental Garbage
• ​The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
• ​The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 
• ​City Arts and Lectures
• ​Jazz by Toni Morrison 
• ​War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• ​Bad Witches by H.B. Akumiah

• Leah profile of Emil Weinstein 
• Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Anna Karenina by Tolstoy 
• Critics at Large on The Pitt 
• Today Explained on Water Cooler TV
• Jeremy Gordon
• See Friendship by Jeremy Gordon 
• Leah’s interviews Jeremy in Interview Mag
• Flyana Boss on TikTok 
• The Burning Plain by Juan Rulfo
• Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison 
• Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq 
• Submission by Michel Houellebecq

• My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Redden Keefe
• Say Nothing by Patrick Madden Keefe
• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel 
• The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek 
• Rayne Fisher Quann Interview with Tavi Gevinson 
• The Vanishing White Male Writer by Jacob Savage
• Akosua’s Substack
• The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
• Democracy by Joan Didion 
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois 
• Harmony Holiday’s Substack
• The Black Catatonic Scream by Harmony Holiday
• Boy Movies by Allison Picurro Substack
• Hung Up by Hunter Harris Substack  
• The Milk Pan by Akosua Adasi
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
• I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
• Passing by Nella Larsen

Episode Links:

• Limo RSVP
• ⁠Notes by Dirt Mag and Night Gallery⁠
• Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
• How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany by Jamie Hood
• Regards, Marcel 

• The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal
• Jamie on Dear Dickhead in Bookforum
• How to Sell Out: The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer by Chad Sanders
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Fucking Like a Housewife by Jamie Hood in The New Inquiry
• Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin 
• No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce by Haley Mlotek 
• Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman by Harron Walker 
• Wave of Blood by Ariana Reines
• The White Book by Hand Kang

Episode Links:

• Buy Bad Witches by Heather :)
• Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella by Charlie Markbreiter [AMAZON LINK TRIGGER WARNING]
• Charlie’s Substack
• Pagebreak
• What You Make of Me by Sophie Madeline Dess 
• Zoe Saldana Bites Back!!
• My personal fav pic of Zoe as Nina, but there are many! 
• El Mal from Emilia Perez
• El Mal Wins Best Original Song
• The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama 
• Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor
• Charli XCX Grammy’s 2025 Red Carpet
• Charli XCX Brits 2025 Red Carpet 
• Ariana Grande Oscar’s 2025 Red Carpet 
• I Saw the TV Glow 
• The People’s Joker
• Stress Positions
• Nympho Wars
• Writers Against the War on Gaza
• Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafi 
• Basel Al-Araj Last Will and Testament 
• Charlie’s David Lynch essay
• Laura Palmer by Bastille
• Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura Palmer's theme

• The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino