The brothers talk Nassim Nicholas Taleb and why they have difficulty "hate" reading

In a great episode, Juan Carlos and his friends discuss the troubles of reading as an adult, Virginia Woolf, and of course the classic Mrs. Dalloway.The Brothers F social media:Instagram @thebrothersftwitter @Brothers F PodFacebook The Brothers F BookCastWe love our listeners and we hope you guys love us! If you do, subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast. Send us any episode ideas, comments, or feedback to brothersfpod@gmail.com.

The Brothers return from a hiatus after a family wedding to discuss one of Tolstoy's greatest: Master & Man.

Wherein the bros share interesting reads they've come across recently and try to convince each other why the books are worth it

The brothers discuss one of the most scintillating novels published in the last 100 years.

Andres reads out a short story he wrote about a kid who discovers something he doesn't really understand; the brothers discuss and critique.

Want to learn more about the author who is mentioned oh so often??? Well, this is the place to do it. Make sure to listen to this week's episode because it is the best combination of serious and HILARIOUS!!!!

The brothers had a great discussion about J.D. Salinger's "For Esme with Love and Squalor" a story about war trauma and the healing power of narrative.

Diego & Andres talk F. Scott Fitzgerald's Rich Boy.

The brothers discuss In the Cart and why it's so important to secure the bag

"I shall deliberately destroy your credit as an essayist, as a journalist, as a critic, as a Liberal, as everything that offers your laziness as a refuge, until starvation and shame drive you to serious dramatic parturition. I shall repeat my public challenge to you; vaunt my superiority; insult your corpulence; torture Belloc; if necessary, call on you and steal your wife’s affections by intellectual and athletic displays, until you contribute something to British drama."--George Bernard Shaw to GK Chesterton in a March 1908 letter. The brothers also think about doing a hate read episode on Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One.

The brothers discuss Stephen King's craft book cum memoir: On Writing.

The brothers discuss All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

"Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's first published short story. The brothers discuss the story's racial ambiguities and showcase their musical chops.

The brothers discuss Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Fooled by Randomness, a work of non-fiction that explains how to think probabilistically about people's life outcomes including your own, why Warren Buffet's hagiographers are kind of lame, and how the three worst addictions are heroin, carbs, and a steady paycheck.

The brothers discuss the classic 1946 story. It's eerie, and stays with you. And 2 years after the fact, Andrew spoils Avengers: Endgame!

Deserted Cities/You're Killing Me,Susana is the story of a writer fleeing her home and marriage in Mexico to attend an international writer's workshop in the United States, leaving her husband Eligio behind and completely unaware of her whereabouts. Eligio catches up with his wife and tries to save his marriage in the fictional town of Arcadia, Iowa. Hilarity ensues.

The brothers discuss one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early short stories and compare it to Mean Girls.

The brothers discuss Poe's classic short story.

The brothers discuss David Foster Wallace's modern retelling of the Death of Ivan Ilyich, Good Old Neon.