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Episode links:

• 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

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 Preorder
• 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
• Caitlyn'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

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