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Episode 8 - Essays: Wallace & Chesterton

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Did you know that essays make great bathroom reading? Well, opinions differ, apparently. After settling that important matter, Mike and Jess discuss the essays they read in April by their respective authors: David Foster Wallace and G. K. Chesterton. _______________________________________________________ Books mentioned on this episode: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace Quack This Way by David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G. K. Chesterton

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