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In this episode, we  discuss “Now We Are Five” by David Sedaris.  What can we learn about writing fiction by examining memoir?

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In this episode of Why Is This Good, we discuss Raymond Carver’s story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.”  We explore what we can learn about dialogue, among other lessons.

Read the story here: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver

We apologize again for the audio issues in this episode.  The good news is that we think we’ve figured out the problem we’ve been having and future episodes should (hopefully) have much better audio.  Thanks for listening!

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In this episode, we discuss Miranda July’s story “The Boy from Lam Kien.”

Read it here: “The Boy From Lam Kien” by Miranda July

Apologies again for the quality of JC’s audio.

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In this episode, we discuss “The Flood” by Megan Baxter, which you can read here: “The Flood” by Megan Baxter

Apologies for the sound quality on JC’s track.  It sounds like he was on the wrong end of his microphone—not sure what happened there.

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In this episode, we discuss “Now I Make My Own Bread” by Elle Wignall.

Read it here: “Now I Make My Own Bread” by Elle Wignall

During recording, it seems as if something happened with Rob’s microphone.  Apologies for the quality of the audio.

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In this episode, we discuss Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

Read it here: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

This episode contains a passing spoiler for the Black Mirror movie Bandersnatch.

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff.

Read it here: “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff

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In this episode, we discuss “The Lie” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, available online in the New Yorker.

Link: “The Lie” by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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In our second episode, we discuss “The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme, which is available online here:

“The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme

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In the first episode of our new podcast, we discuss “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff, which is available online through the New Yorker here: “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff

At the end of the episode, we mention Lauren Groff’s book, Florida, which also includes this story.  It was published last year.

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