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
#64 🎊 Nostalgia, Holidays, and the Changing American Dream - Inside Good Scribes
Continuing the discussion on Corrections. Mini episode 🏠
About the Book
The novel centers on the Lambert family, particularly the struggles of aging patriarch Alfred and his wife, Enid, who yearns fo…
#63 🎄 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
About the Book
The novel centers on the Lambert family, particularly the struggles of aging patriarch Alfred and his wife, Enid, who yearns for family unity. Their adult children face personal crises…
#62 🫡 ✍️ Why Are Superhero Movies So Popular? - Inside Good Scribes
Mark Twain once said that "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.” When he said this, he forgot to consider Nahko and Pepper 🐾
We're talking superheroes today 🦸💪💥
About the …
#61 🦸 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon (2000)
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His B…
#60 ✅ Season Four #Wrapped - Ranking the Reads
Season four! Complete! All the books! Ranked! Godspeed! 💪 🖖
About the Show
Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curious minds to exp…
#59 🫡 ✍️ Earning Respect, Credentialism, and the Importance of Writing - Inside Good Scribes
Mark Twain once said that "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.” When he said this, he forgot to consider Nahko and Pepper 🐾
About the Week's Book
A classic work of Ameri…
#58 🪖 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
About the Book
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on wa…
#57 🥀🥶 The Anti-Library, Reading Challenges, and Cold Plunging - Inside Good Scribes
Are reading challenges worth it? What thousand page book is Dan dying to read? And what in god's name is an "anti-library?" Enjoy!
About the Week's Book
Here’s the rub, The Name of the Rose is one of t…
#56 - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 🥀
About the Book
The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overs…
#55 - What is Meaning Anyway? - Inside Good Scribes -
Find out who's the real nihilist, and how Daniel derives meaning from his copious acting deals, not to mention one poorly thought out sports analogy. Enjoy!About the Week's Book
Though most people th…
#54 - Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion
Though most people think essays1 when talking Joan Didion, Dan and I read her best known novel for the podcast. Play it as it Lays is the story of an actor whose journey oscillates …
#53 👨🏻🏫 To Academia, or Not to Academia - Inside Good Scribes
In the main episode for Stoner, Jeremy and Daniel discuss John Williams' uminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection in which William Stoner emerges not only as an archetypal Americ…
#52 - 🏫 Stoner by John Williams
Welcome back, folks, to Good Scribes Only. Today we’re discussing Stoner by John Williams, and no, despite the title, this isn’t about our escapades with Cannabis. John Williams’s l…
#51 - How Can You Follow Up a Masterpiece? - Inside Good Scribes
In the main episode this week, Dan and Jeremy discussed John Steinbeck's East of Eden. While they enjoyed the read, it did not stand up against a few of Steinbeck's other works, an…
#50 🌾 John Steinbeck's East of Eden
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of Ca…
#49 🇺🇸 Jed Bartlet for President, Why Politics Stinks - Inside Good Scribes
In the main episode for Native Son by Richard Wright, Dan urged Jeremy to watch the West Wing. In the mini, Jeremy and Daniel stay on point by discussing another theme they have no credibility to dis…
#48 - Native Son by Richard Wright ⛓️🐁
To honor our watching of Back to the Future for the first time… we went back to 1940s Chicago with Richard Wright’s Native Son which deals with racial and social inequality. It’s a …
#47 ✨✍️ Blending Fiction and Reality - Inside Good Scribes
Set in the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the tragic romance of Dick and Nicole Diver and young actress Rosemary Hoyt. Dick is a brillia…
#46 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 👒
Set in the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the tragic romance of Dick and Nicole Diver and young actress Rosemary Hoyt.…
#45 🤔 Where Does the Idea for a Novel Come From? - Inside Good Scribes
In this 5th episode, you have now entered the 1920s. Well, sorta.
For this decade we read Virginia Woolf's Orlando which has been called 'The longest and most charming love letter i…