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Books mentioned in this episode:
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://amzn.to/4rXp1x6
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
The Employees by Olga Ravn
https://amzn.to/4lvJV3G
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234825
Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa
https://amzn.to/3zVrW30
Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes
https://amzn.to/4uOf0CY
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781916465619
The Things we Don’t Do by Andres Neuman
https://amzn.to/3PqngtH
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953182
Bariloche by Andres Neuman
https://amzn.to/4wvitIg
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830621
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/48OXGpI
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749
2666 by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/48EyX5y
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218
Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews
https://amzn.to/3R7VToW
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780231168076
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
https://amzn.to/4fkSYmD
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374531805
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
https://amzn.to/4uKUrap
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375703768
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
https://amzn.to/3YtLiEZ
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781455563920
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
https://amzn.to/4o9sCpm
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390
The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
https://amzn.to/4eMuXF8
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802197320
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
https://amzn.to/4v5fLII
The Brother by Rein Raud
https://amzn.to/3XcmQI2
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953441
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
https://amzn.to/477sxMI
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728757
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
https://amzn.to/3Ddqt9Q
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062041289
Warlock by Oakley Hall
https://amzn.to/4bhAWOf
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171615
Butchers Crossing by John Williams
https://amzn.to/46XAnrk
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171981
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
https://amzn.to/3HPoWZF
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802145314
The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith
https://amzn.to/3N63yCu
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375168

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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
https://amzn.to/3PEng9t
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085
The Return by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4c1EHcP
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/41kyyST
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
https://amzn.to/3SZDjNq
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4cD0s1I
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898203
Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa
https://amzn.to/3zVrW30
Between Parenthesis by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/3Qsj7pf
The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
https://amzn.to/42dGWno
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140286809
The Collected Non-Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
https://amzn.to/4cgpHI1
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140290110
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
https://amzn.to/4v1T0W1
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812988321
Pay as you Go by Eskor David Johnson
https://amzn.to/3S3apvd
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952119743
People in the Room by Norah Lange
https://amzn.to/4ced0NY
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781911508229
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://amzn.to/47RagU8
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
https://amzn.to/3LAWGf3
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781567928211
Shogun by James Clavell
Stoner by John Williams
https://amzn.to/4iOCaEz
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171998
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://amzn.to/4rXp1x6
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
Beloved by Toni Morrison
https://amzn.to/4rg8lPU
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033416
1984 by George Orwell
https://amzn.to/435ZTcN
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451524935
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
https://amzn.to/3WvPB1S
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060850524
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
https://amzn.to/4hZDGmS
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316769488
Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima
https://amzn.to/4oOkZEg
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375977
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Daniielewski
https://amzn.to/4cLYdds
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781524747718

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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Return by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4c1EHcP
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4e7mUlK
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898142
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/41kyyST
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4mmFPes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908
The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4tANrwj
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250037824
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
https://amzn.to/4tGaTsb
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451419439
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
https://amzn.to/4c5Xhis
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
https://amzn.to/3PEng9t
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
https://amzn.to/4tGjvPu
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180632
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://amzn.to/4vkkYwh
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://amzn.to/47RagU8
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
https://amzn.to/3O4QVIp
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374666
JR by William Gaddis
https://amzn.to/48mHYks
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680
Malina by Ingebore Bachmann
https://amzn.to/4mq1ylU
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
https://amzn.to/4t5kxVg
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrry
https://amzn.to/41nIIlC
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439195260
Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
https://amzn.to/4lQFsIF
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
https://amzn.to/47SjKhR
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
https://amzn.to/4dWs6ZR
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921
War Trash by Ha Jin
https://amzn.to/4cgQ7Ii
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400075799
Trieste by Dasa Drndic
https://amzn.to/4b5IQMe
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504
Passing by Nella Larsen 
https://amzn.to/4cel3sF
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437278
Natural Causes by Nina Lykke
https://amzn.to/4tBmuIM
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830669
The Dying Grass by William Vollmann
https://amzn.to/47UMMxs
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143109402

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