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In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.

Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to become Southern California’s first giraffes. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow.

Have you ever considered the thematic connections between Art of War and Art of the Deal? If so, you've found the right podcast. The three hosts, Dave, Spark, and Tony lead you through the strange duality of paired literature that should never be linked. Welcome to BTL. Email us at badtriplit@gmail.com

In this poignant narrative, national best-selling novelist and acclaimed poet Elizabeth Rosner vividly describes a journey to Germany with her father, a survivor of the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. Together, they navigate the complex territory of his traumatic history intertwined with her inherited grief. Through their shared experience of the past colliding with the present, father and daughter discover a new bond of familial love and remembrance to help carry them forward into the future.

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From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.

Una fría madrugada de primavera, Santiago Albiol coge a su único hijo, de apenas cinco años, lo sube al coche y emprende un viaje, sin destino y a la desesperada, que le lleva a cruzar media España. Es una huida: Santiago acaba de matar a su esposa. Dos años después de ese luctuoso hecho, Jorge Canal, arquitecto y escritor en ciernes, se decide a retomar su afición por la escritura—abandonada desde la época universitaria—con la pretensión de escribir una novela que cuente la historia de Santiago.

Un any abans de la seva mort, Franz Kafka va viure una insòlita experiència. Al parc Steglitz de Berlín va trobar una nena plorant perquè havia perdut la seva nina. Per calmar a la petita es va inventar una història peculiar: la nina no s’havia perdut, se’n havia anat de viatge, i ell, convertit en carter de nines, tenia una carta que li portaria el dia següent al parc. Durant tres setmanes, Kafka escriu aquestes cartes com si es tractés de qualsevol de les seves obres immortals aconseguint així crear un autèntic món de fantasia.