Meredith Monday Schwartz
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5,660 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Meredith Monday Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
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It's so funny.
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It's so, so, so smart.
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It's the sort of prose that makes you want to read a line twice, not because you didn't understand it, but because you just want to go back and kind of admire it for a minute before you move on.
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And then right in the middle of all that cleverness, he'll land something so soul level sad that it just knocked the wind completely out of me.
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Because what this book is really up to is looking straight at the interior lives of children and especially the lonely ones.
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It's about how an imaginary friend can genuinely save a kid.
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who doesn't have anyone else to turn to.
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And it's about what waits on the other side of that if we refuse to grow up and out of those imaginary friends.
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And our own minds slowly begin to turn them against us.
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Brockway walks you right into that tender, frightening territory and then refuses to let you look away.
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And make no mistake, as I said, this is a horror novel.
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I want to be super clear about that because it truly matters for if you decide that you want to read this.
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This is not slap happy, like gore for gore's sake horror.
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Nobody's getting diced up for shock value.
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The horror
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Here is weird and wacky.
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It's genuinely funny in places.
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And then it turns right around and becomes a tough, tough read that earns every unsettling moment.
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And there are a lot of those.
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This is one of those rare books that proves that horror can open up the deepest layers of emotional wounding and get at things that the gentler genres just can't reach.
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