<p>Audrey Lazaro discusses Mellville&#8217;s 1853 story, &#8220;Bartleby the Scrivener,&#8221; one of the top three bits of scrivener fiction ever.</p>
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<p>John McCoy  with Audrey Lazaro</p>

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     <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUBA_KR-VNU" class="link" target="_blank">An inexplicable 1969 film adaptation by the EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica</a></h4>
     
    
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129: The Metamorphosis

John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!