How to Stop Reading a Book

How to Stop Reading a Book

By Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

You’d think this was fairly straightforward, so why is it so hard to admit defeat? Why do we use words like “admit defeat” when discussing a book? The book doesn’t know you’re not reading it! Stevie had these epiphanies recently, after pretending to read Crime and Punishment for circa 25 years, and Tessa is eager to learn.


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Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.

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