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
#84 🎬 American Fiction, Dark comedies, and Love on a Leash
Episode Summary
About the Book
Goodreads Summarizes A Visit from the Goon Squad as: a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably…
#83 👨🎤 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010)
About the Book
Goodreads Summarizes A Visit from the Goon Squad as: a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by ev…
#82 🗺️ Cities, Access to Nature, Norway, and Choosing Where to Live
About The Book:
My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-vo…
#81 🏀 Book Madness 2024
#80 🇳🇴 My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard (2009)
About The Book:
My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-vo…
# 79 🧌 Book Deals, Scranches, Historical Fiction, and Intense Experiences
About this week's book:
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting l…
# 78 🌾 Song Yet Sung by James McBride (2008)
About The Book:
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a d…
#77 🎮 Escapism, Dungeons + Dragons, Obsessions, Going Through the Motions, and Spiritual Materialism
About The Show:
Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curious minds to explore, challenge, and think differently through books. In Se…
#76 🇩🇴 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2007)
About The Book:
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and re…
#75 🛸🫠 "Are Extra-Terrestrials Anti-Semitic?"
About The Book:
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of dest…
#74 👾 The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2006)
About The Book:
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of dest…
#73 🦿Consumption Habits, Re-reading Books, and Will AI Write as Well As Cormac McCarthy?
About The Book:
The setting is the Texas-Mexico border. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. A good old boy named Llewellyn Mo…
# 72 💰 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2005)
About The Book:
The setting is the Texas-Mexico border. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. A good old boy named Llewellyn Mo…
#71 🔖 Social Bubbles, Satire, Realism vs Fantasy, and Writing with Sincerity - Inside Good Scribes
About The Book:
Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, …
#70 🇲🇽 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004)
About The Book:
Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, …
#69 ♾️ Therapy, Science vs Humanities, Higher Education, and The Wisdom of Chasing Your Strengths - Inside Good Scribes
About the Book
He is a brilliant mathematics professor grappling with a unique challenge - following a traumatic head injury, he retains only eighty minutes of short-term memory.
She is a perceptive yo…
#68 🧮 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2003)
About the Book
He is a brilliant mathematics professor grappling with a unique challenge - following a traumatic head injury, he retains only eighty minutes of short-term memory.
She is a perceptive yo…
#67 🥋 Fear, Regret, Shadow Careers, and Brazilian Jiujitsu
About the Book
Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oe…
#66 🐈 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)
About the Book
Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oe…
#65 🎁 2023 Wrapped - Our Fav Books, Shows, Movies, Docs, and Pods
2023! Complete! Our fav books! Shows! Movies! Pods! Ranked! Godspeed! 💪 🖖
About the Show
Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curi…