Annie Rauwerda, the mind behind one of my favorite Instagram accounts (Depths of Wikipedia, go check it out) joins me to share way more than 3 books you should also check out. We talk Robert Moses, literary gossip from the 1920s, cartoons, the internet, and the recent passing of a bottle of amaro.

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books discussed below. these are affiliate links for bookshop.org. by purchasing books through these links, you support local bookstores, and I earn a (very small) commission.

"Complete Poems" by Dorothy Parker https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780143106081

"The Power Broker" by Robert Caro https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780394720241

"Working" by Robert Caro https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780593081914

"Word by Word: the Secret Life of Dictionaries" by Kory Stamper https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9781101970263

"Gulp" by Mary Roach https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9781324036067

"In the Beginning Was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780380815937

"The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons" https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780316484770

"City of Quartz" by Mike Davis https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9781786635891

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This month, we're reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9781594631931

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