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
#124 Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (Ohio)
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…
#123 🎮 "Bad" Habits, Video Games, Jiu Jitsu, and the End of Death
About The Book:
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school b…
#122 🐇 Rabbit Run by John Updike (Pennsylvania)
About The Book:
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school b…
#121 New York vs Siberia
About the Book:
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love wit…
#120 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
About the Book:
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love wit…
#119 Full House, ABC Family, Moralizing Content, and the Return of Retro
About The Book:
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talen…
#118 🐴 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
About The Book:
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talen…
#117 🧓🏼 Peak Late! Achieving Artistic Success at a Young Age, Ego in Writing, and Jon Hamm
About The Book:
Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no pla…
#116 🥵 Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (New Hampshire)
About The Book:
Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no pla…
#115 👻 Do You Believe in Ghosts?
About The Book:
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Ma…
#114 -SEASON 7 ROAD TRIP USA - Bag of Bones by Stephen King (Maine)
About The Book:
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Ma…
#113 〽️ Alternative Takes on Classic Characters, A Dangerous Game
About The Book:
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
When the enslaved Jim o…
#112 🌾 James by Percival Everett
About The Book:
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
When the enslaved Jim o…
#111 📿 The Spectrum of Spirituality and Rationality
About The Book:
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and start…
#109 👁️🗨️ The Allure of Violence, Escapism, Horror, and Finding Humor in Death
About The Book:
980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates th…
#108🤿 The Passenger by CORMAC MCCARTHY (2022)
About The Book:
980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the…
#107 😗 Would You Be a Whistleblower?
About The Book:
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delive…
#106 🇮🇪 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
About The Book:
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while deliver…
#105 🔚 Endings: the Good, the Bad, the Insanely Great
About The Book:
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the…