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Episode 7: A Collection of Essays

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Mike and Jess discuss the neglected, yet brilliant, genre of the essay and why we should be reading more of them. Books mentioned on this episode: ------------------------------------------------------------- Mystery and Manners God in the Dock The Givenness of Things What are we doing here? In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G. K. Chesterton A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Self-Reliance and Other Essays Signposts in a Strange Land The Message in the Bottle Essays of Four Decades Essays of a Catholic Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

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