Autumn

09/18/21 • 27 min

Autumn, a collection of essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard, is Jay's pick on this episode.
Will the book become Phil's gateway drug to other Knausgaard collections or do Autumn's leaves blow away in the wind of criticism? (That sounded better in my head)
And how does Phil manage to bring baseball into the conversation...yet again?
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Knowledge of Angels

Jay drags out every philosophy and theology book he owns to try and keep up with Phil on this one. Turns out Knowledge of Angels involves a child raised by wolves, a shipwrecked atheist and a Grand Inquisitor. Spoiler alert, he's not called the Grand Inquisitor because he's a really good listener.
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The Night of the Gun

In this episode, Jay takes on Phil's pick and together they try and figure out if this is just another junkie memoir or a genuine investigation into the fallacy of our memories.
Along the way, Jay introduces controversy in his revolutionary and heroic attempt to change the rating scale. Will Phil hold fast or will the ensuing chaos put the entire future of the podcast in jeopardy?

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Dog-eared and Cracked - Autumn

Transcript

Phil "Oh, God, how delicious it is to pee yourself.".

Jay OK (laughs)

Phil That's it. I think it's a fitting metaphor for the book.

Jay Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. Welcome to Dog-eared and Cracked, the podcast where each host subjects the other to his taste in authors. It's a conversation between two old friends about a book that one of us has picked for the other. Sometimes we get a chance to read a book