Good Scribes Only
Good Scribes Only is a podcast featuring a novelist + venture investor (Daniel Breyer) and a novelist + founder (Jeremy Streich), who share an enthusiasm for literature. From classics to sci-fi, moderns to ancient philosophy, your hosts will ramble and banter about it all—particularly the topics they have no business discussing.
Each episode dives into the craft of writing as well as questions of plot, character, theme, and philosophy in a work.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 146
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
#145 There's No Turning Back
About the Book:
Published in 1968, House Made of Dawn is N. Scott Momaday’s landmark debut novel and a defining work of Native American literature. The story follows Abel, a young Native American man …
#144 House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday (New Mexico)
About the Book:
Published in 1968, House Made of Dawn is N. Scott Momaday’s landmark debut novel and a defining work of Native American literature. The story follows Abel, a young Native American man …
#143 People Can't Find Out About the Serial Killer in My Family
About the Book:
Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Angle of Repose is a sweeping American saga that blends history, family drama, and the search for meaning. The novel follows retired hist…
#141 Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (Colorado)
About the Book:
Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Angle of Repose is a sweeping American saga that blends history, family drama, and the search for meaning. The novel follows retired hist…
#140 Where Would We Be Without Books?
About the Book:
Published in 1932, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision of a future society engineered for efficiency, order, and pleasure—but at the expense of individuality, emotion, …
#139 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (New Mexico)
About the Book:
Published in 1932, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision of a future society engineered for efficiency, order, and pleasure—but at the expense of individuality, emotion, …
#138 You Have to Walk Before You Run, Trot Before You Canter
About the Book:
Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the mid…
#137 Horseman, Pass By - Larry McMurtry (Texas)
About the Book:
Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the mid…
#136 She Fell I Swear!
About the Book:
All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty". The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie S…
#135 All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (Louisiana)
About the Book:
All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty". The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie S…
#134 Book Bootleggers
About the Book:
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntl…
#133 Light in August - William Faulkner (Mississippi)
About the Book:
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntl…
#132 Scorpions and Sauerkraut
About the Book:
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. H…
#131 Suttree - Cormac McCarthy (Tennessee)
About the Book:
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. H…
#130 Third Spaces, Dental Waiting Rooms, and Quiet Uber Rides
About the Book:
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he…
#129 Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry (Kentucky)
About the Book:
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he…
#128🔥 SMOKEBIRDS, a novel by Daniel Breyer: Live Recording at Green Apple Books in SF
Jeremy joined Daniel for a live event at Green Apple Books in San Francisco to discuss Daniel’s debut: Smokebirds. Set in the near future, when every autumn is fire season in California, wealthy San …
#127 🪙 24 Hours After You Win the Lottery....
About the Book:
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed milliona…
#126 God Bless You Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut (Indiana)
About the Book:
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed milliona…
#125 🏡 Diets, Taylor Swift, Conformity, and the Myth of Individualism
About the Book:
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.
In Shaker H…