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Doug Reads With Friends
Doug Reads With Friends is a podcast built around good books, good people, and the pleasure of a thoughtful conversation.
Each episode, Doug invites a friend to bring a book and see where the conversation leads. Along the way, they talk about reading, work, friendship, curiosity, and the strange, meaningful ways stories shape how we understand the world and each other.
The book is the excuse. The friendship is the point.
Buddies. Books. Banter.
Episodes
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Ep 17: Uphill Slushies, Langan Third & The Correspondent (with Erica Tarpey)
Doug and Erica Tarpey met across the hall on Langan Third at Grinnell College in 1989 and have kept making time for each other ever since. They talk about…
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Ep 16: Compassion, The Beirut Marathon & A Man Called Ove (with Jad Nachabe)
Doug talks with his friend Jad Nachabe, a Lebanese endurance athlete he met through the Beirut Marathon. Jad reflects on growing up between Lebanon and Dubai…
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Ep 15: The Empty Chair, Zimbabwe Education & Chasing Freedom (with Rebecca Zeigler Mano)
Doug talks with longtime friend Rebecca Ziegler Mano, founder of Education Matters and USAP Community School in Zimbabwe, about a life spent connecting…
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Ep 14: Getting Nosier, Posse Therapy & The Invisible Ache (with Javon Garcia)
Doug talks with Javon Garcia, a clinical social worker in Chicago and former member of the Grinnell Posse Doug mentored, about therapy, masculinity, community…
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Ep 13: Mutual Aloha, Peace Corps Piranhas & When No Thing Works (with Jeff Yamada)
Jeff Yamada and I met in 1995 as Peace Corps volunteers in Suriname, and thirty years later our friendship has survived marriages, divorces, career changes…
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Ep 12: Remembering Steve Langerud
This is a very different episode of Doug Reads With Friends. Steve Langerud was supposed to be my guest. He had chosen the book, I had read it, and we were…
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Ep 11: Hope, Radical Care & The Parable of the Sower (with Graciela Guzman)
In this episode of Doug Reads with Friends, Doug talks with Illinois State Senator Graciela Guzman about organizing, public service, community care, and…
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Ep 10: Start Small, Grinnell Mornings & Pride and Prejudice (with Erik Simpson)
In this episode of Doug Reads with Friends, Doug talks with Erik Simpson, Professor of English at Grinnell College and one of Doug’s dearest friends from his…
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Ep 9: Do Hard Things, Favorite Teachers & The Longest Race (with Tammy Draughon)
Tammy Draughon joins Doug to talk about The Longest Race by Kara Goucher, but the conversation quickly becomes about much more than running. Doug and Tammy…
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Ep 8: Unimportant Joy, Stylin' Mermaid & Cocktail Time (with Jeremy Hornik)
In this episode of Doug Reads With Friends, Doug talks with his oldest friend, Jeremy Hornik, about nearly 50 years of friendship, ridiculous Shakespeare…
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Ep 7: AI Ethics, PosseLove & Culpability (with Dr. Lana Mahgoub)
Ep 7: AI Ethics, PosseLove & Culpability (with Dr. Lana Mahgoub) A family survives a self-driving car accident. Two people in another car don’t. From there…
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Ep 6: Good Clay, Great Bosses & This American Woman (with Hazel Raja)
In this episode of Doug Reads with Friends, I’m joined by my longtime friend and former colleague Hazel Raja. We first met in 2013 when she interviewed me to…
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Ep 5: Inherited Systems, Long Arcs & Disrupting Africa (with Opeyemi Awe)
What does it take to build a country? Doug sits down with Ope Awe—Watson Fellow, Schwarzman Scholar, JD/MBA, and one of the most remarkable former students…
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Ep 4: Delighted Directors, Flower-Girl Fathers & Frankenstein (with John Bowers)
In this episode of Doug Reads with Friends, Doug is joined by longtime friend John Bowers — a Grinnell alum and visual effects professional based in Los…
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Ep 3: Messy Heroines, Beloved Colleagues & Lost in Oaxaca (with Alicia Hayes)
Episode 3: Lost in Oaxaca (with Alicia Hayes) In Episode 3 of Doug Reads With Friends, Doug is joined by Alicia Hayes—one of the most admired (and most…
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Ep 2: Generous Authority, Wordle Buddies & The Art of Gathering (with Josh Blue)
Episode 2: The Art of Gathering (with Josh Blue) In Episode 2 of Doug Reads With Friends, Doug calls up his friend Josh Blue—Grinnell alum, Hong Kong–based…
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Ep 1: Citgo Lots, Kidneys & The Emperor of Gladness (with Cheryl Rainford)
Welcome to the first episode of Doug Reads With Friends, the podcast I made so I have an excuse to call people I miss and pretend it’s for content. My first…