You Should Probably Read More

Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best.

You Should Probably Read More is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #20

  Best of 2025 with Shanon & Nolan

  Jan 14, 202644 minS1

  <p>We're baaaaaaaack! Sorry for the wait yall, life comes at ya real quick. As always, we wait until the actual end of the year to make it through everything we want to read so if you think this is late just remember everyone else copped out and made lists too early. That's what we tell ourselves. So in this episode we catch up on some book news and then present our top 5 books of the year (each) plus books we're looking forward to in 2026. </p><p>And as mentioned in the pod here are links to John and Nolan's...

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  Episode #19

  "There Is No Place For Us" with Brian Goldstone

  Aug 30, 20251h 16mS1

  <p>Whoops! We skipped a month. Consider it our summer vacation. But we’ve got a big one this episode.</p><p>Here’s the deal: if there is one book you should read this year it’s Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” The book is an incredible work of journalism as it “…follows five families in Atlanta as they struggle to find stable housing while navigating low-wage work, predatory landlords, a lack of tenant protections, and a system that prioritizes profit over people's basic need for a home.” We’re honored to have Bria...

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  Episode #18

  "Let's go to Danzig's House" with Dan Ozzi

  Jun 21, 20251h 14mS1

  <p>Ocean Vuong fans beware, Nolan has SOMETHING TO SAY about Emperor of Gladness. After weeks venting in the chat he's finally able to let it out on air. After that we're joined by Dan Ozzi, the best-selling author of Sellout, co-author of Fahrenheit 182 (Mark Hoppus' memoir) and co-author of Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!'s memoir). And some special shit talking on James Frey. What we do best! </p><p><br></p><p>Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:</p><p>Ocean Vuong - Emperor of Gladness</p><...

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  Episode #17

  "George Orwell, Get Me Outta Here!" with Mitra Jouhari

  May 22, 20251 hourS1

  <p>Shanon and Nolan dive into our recent Homesteading obsession and chat with the very funny (with the best laugh) writer and actor Mitra Jouhari about her journey from The Daily Show to Big Mouth – plus her very questionable, very intense Anne Frank phase.</p><p><br></p><p>Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:</p><p>Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry</p><p>The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones</p><p>Stag Dance - Torrey Peters</p><p>The Antidote - Karen Russell</p><p>Open, Heaven - Seán Hewitt</p><p>The Crossing - Cor...

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  Episode #16

  "Ghosted by Stevie Wonder" with Cord Jefferson

  Mar 29, 20251h 10mS1

  <p>This one’s a long-time-coming! We finally have our buddy, Cord Jefferson, on the pod. We know Cord from our NY days when he was at Gawker but you might know him from winning an Oscar for adapted screenplay for American Fiction, which he also directed and which was based on Perceival Everett’s Erasure. Cord also won an Emmy for writing that really good episode of The Watchmen about the Tulsa Massacre. We talk to him about possibly winning an E-G-O, desert noir, how much of a badass Perceival Everett is and much more. </p><p><br></p><p>Boo...

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