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
#104 ☎️ Telephone by Percival Everet (2020)
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…
#101 🎊 Meet the Team That Got Us to 💯 Episodes
To honor 100 episodes of Good Scribes Only, we wanted to highlight a few of the people who made it possible (and easy) for us. Thank you to our team, and thanks to all you listeners out there. See y'…
#100 👯♀️ How Friend Groups Change Over Time
About The Book:
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But whe…
#99 ❤️🩹 Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
#98 🪷 Do We Have a Soul?
About the Week's Book:
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a sin…
#97 🥀 Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)
About the Book:
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single nig…
#96➗Maybe We're Less Divided Than We Think We Are? (Plus Daniel's Suspension From Twitter 🫠)
Episode Summary
About The Episode:
Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his…
#95 🇭🇺 Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
About The Episode:
Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life to the pr…
#94 🎭 The Masks We Wear
About The Book:
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor…
#93 😳 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
#92 👓 Blindness, Eyesight, and the Problem(?!) of Reading
#91 🏰 All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
About The Book:
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of …
#90 👨🚀 Texas, California, Jon Stewart, Wokism, and an Unfortunate Foray into Politics
About the Book:
The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the.…
#89 🏇 The Son by Philipp Meyer (2013)
About the Book:
The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the …
#88 🤨 Mad Men, Succession, Anti-heroes, and Complex Characters
About The Book:
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the …
#87 ⛄️ Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (2012)
About The Book:
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the …
#86 🥱 Could Boredom Be the Spice of Life?!
About the Book:
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so …
#85 🧾 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (2011)
About the Book:
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so …