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Howling Fantods (episode #1513)

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David Foster Wallace’s Turns of Phrase

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What’s in your Fibber McGee Drawer?

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Bless Your Sugar-Coated Tell-All

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Stem-winding and Spellbinding Sentences (minicast)

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Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus

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