Episode 16: Miracles, ghosts, and leaps of faith

The Frizzler, Mr. Rummel, and Mrs. Brown

The episode begins with Chris and Jake talking about Conan hosting the Oscars.

We also talk about Jake’s recent birthday.

And recent coverage of “meat sticks” in the Wall Street Journal.

And we share what we’ve been reading outside of book club.

Jake’s been reading The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine.

Frizzelle’s been reading The Iliad of Homer, translated by Robert Fagles.

Then novelist and essayist and book-club all-star Rebecca Brown gets teleported in, Star Trek-style, to join our discussion of miracles, ghosts, and leaps of faith.

Jake and Chris read brand-new pieces of writing on the theme of miracles, ghosts, and leaps of faith.

And Rebecca reads a related excerpt from her book American Romances.

We also talk about Florence, Italy, where Jake and Rebecca each lived, long ago. We’ll be heading to Florence in the E.M. Forster book club soon.

Rebecca and Jake also share their initial reactions to Dorothy Parker, whom neither of them had read before the FrizzLit book club. Artwork by Kathryn Rathke

And we hear a little of Paul Matthew Moore playing Erik Satie at the Silent Reading Party.

Art and design by Corianton Hale. Theme by Adam Haws.