Hi friends! This episode is originally on Godesulloh Bawa's (our dear friend + your favorite philosophy influencer) podcast called Vibes. He's kindly letting us repost it here too because he's just that nice. Enjoy this long, unedited conversation where the three of us discuss Alain de Botton's Essays in Love, and dive into the philosophy of love through it!

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Welcome back to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two besties talk about books over coffee. You guys asked us for very specific book recommendations - and we're here to deliver.

Here are all the books mentioned in this episode:

• Perfume - Patrick Süskind
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
• Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton
• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
• Babel - R. F. Kuang
• Good Material - Dolly Alderton
• Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
• White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

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(p.s. Thanks to John for keeping us hydrated and fed while editing and publishing this episode)

Welcome to our favorite discussion yet, with a special guest: Godesulloh Bawa, one of our favorite philosophy creators! Today we're discussing the philosophy of love, beauty, and existentialism, through:

• Plato's The Symposium
• Kierkegaard's Works of Love
• Dostoyevsky's White Nights

Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!

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Welcome, welcome. We're here with a discussion on our favorite memoirs! We cover Everything I Know About Love, Educated, I'm Glad My Mom Died, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, and Betty. Enjoy! (and please excuse the audio issues... won't happen again we promise)

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Special announcement: WE LAUNCHED AN ONLINE COMMUNITY AND A PATREON! :') Join our Patreon to become a member of the Espresso Epilogues book club, join our Discord server to meet like-minded people, and access some really cool (I promise) merch. We'll love you forever and probably include you in our next gratitude meditation.

In this episode, we (attempt to) speed-review the books we read in 2023! The good, the bad, the 5-star favorites, the 1-star disappointments. Including books like 100 Years of Solitude, The Island of Missing Trees, The Goldfinch, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Crime and Punishment, White Nights, Piranesi, Swimming in the Dark, and more. Thank you for listening!

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Hi friends!! We're here with the most requested episode yet: Kafka! In this one we discuss The Trial, Metamorphosis, Letters to Milena, and Kafka in general.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We just launched our online community that you can join for free until January 15th, to connect with other lovers of literature, philosophy, and words in all their forms. If you join by January 15th 2024, you will remain a free member forever. After that, we are launching a Patreon and turning community access into a paid benefit for new members. We're so excited to welcome you on board!

You're listening to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two book-loving besties, Aspa and Erifili, talk about books over coffee. We're so happy you're here.

To contact us, see some great book memes, or give us episode ideas: Instagram ⁠⁠@espressoepilogues⁠⁠, TikTok ⁠⁠@espresso.epilogues⁠⁠, and our ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ :)

We're here with an episode mixing philosophy and literature, our favorite topics. Today we're talking about existentialism and absurdism, through Fyodor Dostoyevsky's White Nights, and Albert Camus' The Stranger / The Outsider.

You're listening to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two book-loving besties, Aspa and Erifili, talk about books over coffee. We're so happy you're here.

To contact us, see some great book memes, or give us episode ideas: Instagram ⁠@espressoepilogues⁠, TikTok ⁠@espresso.epilogues⁠, and our ⁠website⁠ :)

It's time to embrace reading as the coziest of activities. We're here with 8 cozy book recommendations for you to read in the fall!

Welcome to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two book-loving besties, Aspa and Erifili, talk about books over coffee.

Note from Erifili: We're sorry for the weird change in my mic quality mid-episode! Truly no idea what happened. Bear with us. Hope you enjoy this chat! <3

In future episodes, we'll discuss authors like Dostoyevsky, cover our favorite classics, talk about philosophical literature covering existentialism and absurdism, and so much more. Stay tuned ;)

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