Good Scribes Only
Daniel Breyer, Jeremy Streich
4.9from 52 ratings
- 187
- Episodes
- 24
- Transcribed
- 52
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 185K
- YouTube views
About Good Scribes Only
Good Scribes Only is a podcast featuring a novelist + venture investor (Daniel Breyer) and a novelist + founder (Jeremy Streich), who share an enthusiasm for literature. From classics to sci-fi, moderns to ancient philosophy, your hosts will ramble and banter about it all—particularly the topics they have no business discussing. Each episode dives into the craft of writing as well as questions of plot, character, theme, and philosophy in a work.
- Publisher
- Daniel Breyer, Jeremy Streich
- Category
- arts · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 13 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
24 of 187 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#183 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#182 Love Polygons
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#181 Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
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#183 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I found it more exciting and novel than this book, for sure. Why do you think that is? Just generally the plot? Yeah. Yeah, the scope of 100 Years of Solitude is massive. And it's one of those family sagas over generations where and that magical realism is when you read it for the first time, you're like, this is new and this is unique. And you kind of struggle as a reader in the best possible way with what does this mean that so many crazy things are happening alongside the dark and the normal and the pedestrian. And blending that together as a picture of what life could be, where we often are missing the fantastical in our day-to-day life because we either just shut it out or we're not able to engage with it. […]
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- YouTube views
- 184,667
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 37 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 71
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