How I've Read

Scotto reacts to Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang's The Vegetarian.

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Scotto reacts to Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place and discusses why he hasn't been many places. This episode explores the relationship between consumers and workers, Scotto's domestic travel experiences, tourism, colonialism, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and much more.

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Scotto connects with Mary Gaitskill's Veronica.

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Scotto reacts to Karl Ove Knausgaard's "The Reenchanted World," which you can read in the June 2025 issue of Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/the-reenchanted-world-karl-ove-knausgaard-digital-age/

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Scotto reacts to a chapter from Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.

Guest episode! Rob Couch talks about reading Larry McMurtry's Moving on. You can listen to Rob's podcast about King of the Hill here: https://www.yeppodcast.com/

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The murder of Robert Brooks in a New York prison motivated Scotto to reread Angela Y. Davis's Are Prison's Obsolete. The book made him think about the innacurate and pervase representation of prisons in American media and the ramifications of a draconian and racist criminal justice system. This episode includes discussions of the prison in Scotto's hometown, Orange Is the New Black, Oz, Goodfellas, The Sopranos, The Godfather, Guantanamo Bay, Trump, Obama, and much more.

Author Kelly Daniels shares a story about his mother reading him The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (and much more). Find Kelly's writing and podcast here: https://authorkellydaniels.com/

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