In this episode series, Odd Reader Out, one or two of your Shelf Respect hosts will take a literary concept the other host or hosts are unfamiliar with and attempt to entice them into jumping on the bandwagon. In this installment, Knox is walking Erin and Jamie through one of his favorite reading experiences: short stories.

• Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates (text in full)
• The Wondering Years: How Pop Culture Helped Me Answer Life's Biggest Questions by Knox McCoy
• All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What We Know Helps Us Know What We Believe by Knox McCoy
• I've Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God by Erin Moon
• Knox's Substack: Binge Thinking
• Erin's Substack: The Swipe Up
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver
• Florida by Lauren Groff
• Preorder The Frenzy by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
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