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
#44 - Orlando by Virginia Woolf 💁♂️💁♀️
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…
#43 Inside Good Scribes - On Writing, Art, and Changing Genre 🎨🪞
GOAT ALERT 🐐
For the 1910's episode of Season 4, we read Portrait of the Artist as a Man by James Joyce
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce's art, this masterpiece o…
#42 🧑🎨 Portrait of the Artist as a Man by James Joyce
About the Episode
In this 3rd episode of Season 4, we read Portrait of the Artist as a Man by James Joyce
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce's art, this masterpiece of semi-autobiogr…
#41 Inside Good Scribes - Rock and Roll, Megachurches, Political Identity, and Having an Impact ⚡ 🏛️
In this 1st episode of Season 4, we read a book whose original version has never been seen. The Jungle that we know, by Upton Sinclair, is the version that was highly censored because o…
#40 🍖🥶 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
In this 1st episode of Season 4, we read a book whose original version has never been seen. The Jungle that we know, by Upton Sinclair, is the version that was highly censored because of its politica…
#39 - 📚🏆 Ranking the Reads of Season 3
In this final episode of the season, we rank all our stops on the world tour. As you know, we believe you don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fiction…
#38 🇯🇵 🦋1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fiction books can help us explore world's outside our own, take us out of life’s everyday ta…
#37 📟🦧 Inside Good Scribes - Modernization, Religion, and Chimp Empire
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fictional stories can help us explore worlds outside our own, take us out of life’s everyday…
#36 🇴🇲🐫 Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fictional stories can help us explore worlds outside our own, take us out of life’s everyday…
#35 🫡🧗♀️ Inside Good Scribes - Australian Rock Bands, Suffering, Physical Challenge, and the Human Spirit
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. Sometimes even trave…
#34 🇦🇺🛤️ The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fictional stories can help us explore worlds outside our own, take us out of life’s everyday…
#33 🤖🚜 Inside Good Scribes - A Discussion on A.I.
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allowing us to move f…
#32 🍇🇺🇸 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allo…
#31 🎭😹 Inside Good Scribes - The Power of Comedy
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allowing us to move f…
#30 🇬🇹⚔️ The President by Miguel Angel Asturias
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allo…
#29 🤝🚩 Inside Good Scribes - Doing Business Abroad, Red and Green Flags 🤝🚩
About the Episode
In this episode Dan and Jeremy share personal experiences around traveling and doing business as Americans on the African continent
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; som…
#28 - 🌍🇹🇿 Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allo…
#27 🌍🛫 Inside Good Scribes - Thoughts on Travel, Tourism, and Authenticity
About the Episode
In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore their personal reflections, tips, and thoughts on travel. This week's read was “Flights” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, a fascin…
#26 — Let's Travel! 🧳🛫 Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Fiction allows us explore worlds beyond our own, taking us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allo…