Why Is This Good?
Episodes
078: “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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077: “The Hunter’s Wife” by Anthony Doerr
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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076: “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger
15 Mar 2022
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075: “Sweethearts” by Richard Ford
01 Mar 2022
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074: “This Is Pleasure” by Mary Gaitskill
15 Feb 2022
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073: “Snow” by Dale Bailey
01 Feb 2022
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072: “Leaf by Niggle” by J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Jan 2022
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071: “This is How You Fail to Ghost Him” by Victoria McCurdy
01 Jan 2022
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070: “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
15 Dec 2021
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069: “Ghosts and Empties” by Lauren Groff
01 Dec 2021
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068: “The Country of the Blind” by H. G. Wells
15 Nov 2021
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067: “Sea Oak” by George Saunders
01 Nov 2021
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066: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
15 Oct 2021
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065: “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury
01 Oct 2021
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064: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
15 Sep 2021
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063: “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
01 Sep 2021
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062: “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang
15 Aug 2021
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061: “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” by Irwin Shaw
01 Aug 2021
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First Person: Interview with Richard Bausch
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Anna talks to eminent novelist and prolific short story writer Richard Bausch. They discuss his short story, “Isolation,” his nov...
060: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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059: “Herman Wouk is Still Alive” by Stephen King
01 Jul 2021
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First Person: Interview with Benjamin Percy
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview Benjamin Percy. Find out more about Benjamin Percy here: https://benjaminpercy.com/ Buy The Ninth Metal here: https://ww...
058: “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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057: “With the Beatles” by Haruki Murakami
01 Jun 2021
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056: “The Prairie Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld
15 May 2021
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055: “Wake for Susan” by Cormac McCarthy
01 May 2021
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054: “Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure” by Téa Obreht
15 Apr 2021
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053: “The Comet” by W. E. B. Du Bois
01 Apr 2021
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052: “The Art of Losing” by Yoon Choi
15 Mar 2021
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051: “The Saddest Case of True Love” by Simon Van Booy
01 Mar 2021
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050: “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen
15 Feb 2021
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049: “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter
01 Feb 2021
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048: “Symbols and Signs” by Vladimir Nabokov
15 Jan 2021
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047: “Trilobites” by B. D’J. Pancake
01 Jan 2021
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046: “Cougar” by Maria Anderson
15 Dec 2020
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045: “White Noise” by Emma Cline
01 Dec 2020
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044: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
15 Nov 2020
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043: “The Feminist” by Tony Tulathimutte
01 Nov 2020
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042: “God’s Work” by Kevin Canty
15 Oct 2020
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041: “The Fifth Story” by Clarice Lispector
01 Oct 2020
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040: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
15 Sep 2020
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039: “River of Names” by Dorothy Allison
01 Sep 2020
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038: “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer
15 Aug 2020
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037: “A&P” by John Updike
01 Aug 2020
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036: “The Pugilist at Rest” by Thom Jones
15 Jul 2020
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035: “Girl Alone” by Sallie Bingham
01 Jul 2020
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034: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
15 Jun 2020
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033: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
01 Jun 2020
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032: The Lost World by Michael Crichton
15 May 2020
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031: “Gator Butchering for Beginners” by Kristen Arnett
01 May 2020
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030: “Woodland” by Lydia Millet
15 Apr 2020
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029: “The School” by Donald Barthelme
01 Apr 2020
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028: “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian
15 Mar 2020
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027: “Baader-Meinhof” by Don DeLillo
01 Mar 2020
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026: “Sweet on the Tongue” by Roxane Gay
15 Feb 2020
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025: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
01 Feb 2020
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024: “To the Measures Fall” by Richard Powers
15 Jan 2020
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023: “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
01 Jan 2020
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022: “Black-Eyed Women” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
15 Dec 2019
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021: “Goodbye and Good Luck” by Grace Paley
01 Dec 2019
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020: “Gender Studies” by Curtis Sittenfeld
15 Nov 2019
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019: “Lady Tigers” by Nick White
01 Nov 2019
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018: “The Babysitter” by Robert Coover
15 Oct 2019
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017: “Closer” by Greg Egan
01 Oct 2019
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016: “Girls, At Play” by Celeste Ng
15 Sep 2019
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015: “Only Tourists Remember the Alamo” by Alicia D. Ortega
01 Sep 2019
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014: “Victory Lap” by George Saunders
15 Aug 2019
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013: “How to Become a Writer” by Lorrie Moore
01 Aug 2019
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012: “When They Came to Us” by Debbie Urbanski
15 Jul 2019
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011: “Voices” by Alice Munro
01 Jul 2019
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010: “Now We Are Five” by David Sedaris
15 Jun 2019
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009: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver
01 Jun 2019
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008: “The Boy from Lam Kien” by Miranda July
15 May 2019
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007: “The Flood” by Megan Baxter
01 May 2019
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006: “Now I Make My Own Bread” by Elle Wignall
15 Apr 2019
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005: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
01 Apr 2019
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004: “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
15 Mar 2019
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003: “The Lie” by T. Coraghessan Boyle
01 Mar 2019
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002: “The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme
15 Feb 2019
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001: “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff
01 Feb 2019
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