Weird things happen weird places and then those places continue to exist.

In this episode Adam and Dylan discuss the concept of literary pilgrimages including City Lights bookstore, hitchhiking, Hemingway in Spain, and the graves of Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald; plus Lincoln in the Bardo, John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn, and Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm. Become a patron on patreon for a bonus discussion of Dylan's Thomas Merton pilgrimage.

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Deadline for Issue XI submissions is February 25th, 2025

Closing music courtesy of SculptyWorks