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
#24 - Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 🏜️
Episode Cheat Sheet
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. S…
#23 - Inside Good Scribes - Gluttony in Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde
Episode Cheat Sheet
In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore takeaways, tips, and how Joyce Carol Oates' novel, Blonde, relates to everyday life. Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Br…
#22 - Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde 👱🏻♀️
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. S…
#21 - Inside Good Scribes - Envy in Madeline Miller's Circe 🧙🏼♀️
Episode Cheat Sheet
In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore takeaways, tips, and how Madeline Miller's Circe relates to everyday life. Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Je…
#20 - Madeline Miller - Circe 🧙🏼♀️
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. S…
#19 - Inside Good Scribes - Wrath in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Episode Cheat Sheet
In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore takeaways, tips, and how Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart relates to everyday life. Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Br…
#18 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Episode Cheat Sheet
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. S…
#17 - Inside Good Scribes - Lust in Nabokov's Lolita
Episode Notes
In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore takeaways, tips, and how Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita relates to everyday life. Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy…
#16 - Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Episode Notes
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. Season …
#15 - Inside Good Scribes: Sloth in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Episode Cheat Sheet Good Scribes Only on Instagram Find Jeremy online Find Daniel online In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore takeaways, tips, and how Jane Smiley’s, Good Faith relates to …
#14 - Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Good Scribes Only on Instagram
Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curious m…
#13 - Inside Good Scribes - Greed in Jane Smiley's Good Faith 💸
In this mini-episode, Daniel and Jeremy explore takeaways, tips, and how Jane Smiley’s, Good Faith relates to everyday life.
Good Scribes Only on Instagram
Hosted b…
#12 - Jane Smiley - Good Faith
Good Scribes Only on Instagram
Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curious …
#11 - Graham Greene - Power and Glory
Episode Summary
Good Scribes Only on Instagram
Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is…
2022 in Review
In our final episode of the season, we discuss our favorite books of 2022, a few movies that stood out, plus our favorite moments of season one—often the (copious) occasions when Jeremy gets himself…
#10 Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
#9 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
In episode 10, we discuss Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein. This early 19th century novel is one of the most widely read books of all time. Daughter of a novelist and philosopher, it's no …
#8 - James Baldwin - Another Country
#7 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground