John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson: A tangent

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John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson: A tangent

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Jul 14, 2021

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John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson ... these are the people we talk about today for some reason.

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Jul 14, 2021

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3 guys—a pastor, a scholar, and their gleeful provocateur—discuss the great books. We take God and literature seriously—but the second one not overly so.

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John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson: A tangent

John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson: A tangent

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