Wherein the narrator carries on with Nonfiction November, reading an essay by Nietzsche about the New Testament in which he reveals some pretty striking things about himself--then some digressions into Shakespeare and Chaplin and personal blinders.

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Wherein the narrator, jumping on a trend to focus on nonfiction for the month of November, recounts some recent reading: John Berger's strangely interesting essay about the biggest meal of the day, and the Synoptic Gospels from the Norton Critical Edition of the King James Version of The New Testament.

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Wherein the narrator explains a recent hiatus, explains how two consecutive episodes got bundled into one before getting deleted, and then riffs (cuz why not?) about the thing, at work, that they fix on your chest when you forget your nametag.

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Wherein the narrator riffs about a recent music discovery, cites two interesting passages from a George Bush biography, and tells a long story about the time he almost got a show with a podcast network.

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Wherein the narrator goes thrifting, has some success, gets a little high on it, and then gets brought back to earth by a friendly bartender; also tries to decipher what Barbara said about her haircut.

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Wherein the narrator gives a very circuitous review of James Ellroy's new novel and then digresses, recounts a couple of customer encounters at the grocery store that he's been chewing on, tryna change his ways, y'know?

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Wherein the narrator talks about feeling guilty whenever he wants to call out from work, and how this becomes a pretty vicious cycle considering how he always wants to call out from work.

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Wherein the narrator talks about finishing his new book, having no ongoing creative project, mindfulness and working at a grocery store during pumpkin season.

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Wherein the narrator watches a Netflix pilot and digresses into how LAW AND ORDER does a great job of capturing how hard it is to be alive.

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Wherein the narrator, after a preamble about how emotionally hazardous it is to go on a news binge, binges the news.

Topics include:

- Long Island Serial Killer

- Stressful readings

- Mystery novelists hating cell phones

- World's pretty big

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