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The One With Matt Levine and Mary Childs

The Compound and Friends

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The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

I'm exclusively going on podcast to talk about crypto. So you should read novels. I do read novels. Nobody else does, just you and I. Really? You're a novelist. My favorite novel. Wait, can you actually, sorry, we read the New York Times column about you. Can you tell the story of the book that changed your life and made you wanna become a writer?Wait, I feel like that's overblowing it. The book that is mentioned in the Times article is the mezzanine by Nicholson Baker. That's right. Just like a book that. They made it like it was your bible.

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