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So Many Damn Books
A blessing, a curse, a podcast. est. 2014. Christopher (@cdhermelin) invites folks to the Damn Library to talk about reading, literature, publishing, and trying to make it through their never-dwindling stack of things to read. All with a themed drink in hand. Recorded at the Damn Library in Brooklyn, NY.


Amy Kurzweil on the Open Questions of the Future

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November 7, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Edan Lepucki on California’s Alternate Ways of Being

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October 24, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Jennifer Baker on Hoping Her Book Will Help Teens

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October 11, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise

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September 28, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Stacey Mei Yan Fong on Doing What You Want in Your Own Kitchen

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September 7, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Henry Hoke on making P-22 into “me-22”

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August 22, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Christine Grillo on the Joy of Writing Elderly Characters

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June 21, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Rebecca Makkai Has Qualms with True Crime Media (and Makes That Critique in Her New Novel)

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May 23, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Brendan Slocumb on Diving Into the World of Musicology for His New Historical Musical Thriller

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May 9, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Ling Ling Huang on the Intersection of Classical Music and Writing

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April 18, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Kelly Link on Short Stories Cannibalizing Her Novel Ideas

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April 4, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Idra Novey: How to Pack a Punch in a Short Novel

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March 21, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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“I Start, You Finish.” Nita Prose on Letting the Reader Fill in the Blanks

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February 21, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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Antiquarian Bookseller Tom Ayling on Unearthing the Private Lives of Historic Writers

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February 1, 2023  By So Many Damn Books
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The Top 2022 Reads with Sarah and Christopher

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December 22, 2022  By So Many Damn Books
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Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

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December 13, 2022  By So Many Damn Books
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“It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching Three’s Company and Writing Her Novel

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November 29, 2022  By So Many Damn Books
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Kevin Wilson on the Ease of Writing in the 90s and His New Novel, Now is Not the Time to Panic

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November 15, 2022  By So Many Damn Books
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Kate Beaton on the Grueling Task of Writing a Picture Book and Her New Memoir

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November 1, 2022  By So Many Damn Books
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“There Are an Unreasonable Number of Words.” GennaRose Nethercott on Moving from Poetry to a Novel

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September 20, 2022  By So Many Damn Books
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