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Alex Gershman @UCeX5nLEFnclIgAcwtwfeB3Q@youtube.com

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🎃HALLOWEEN READING VLOG🎃: Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
13:34
Classic Lit: Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence and Other Reads
18:26
The BEST BOOK I've Read This Year: Thoughts on Form in "Flesh" by David Szalay
14:12
September Reads: Russian and German Lit - Dostoevsky, Mann, and Nietzsche
13:28
Philosophy and Fiction Recs: Nietzsche's "Birth of Tragedy" and Samanta Schweblin's "Good and Evil"
12:17
Everything an English Major Reads in One Semester
22:03
August Reads: Three Disappointing Novels, a Brilliant Story Collection by Dorthe Nors
01:05:08
THE RETURN OF DYSON SMITH: Review of Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero, Discussing Tomboy Ballet
33:48
August Reads: Frank O'Connor and Guy De Maupassant, Turbulence by David Szalay, Zone Rouge
31:30
Dark Reads: Fox by Joyce Carol Oates and The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
43:25
A Conversation With Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Beyond All Reasonable Doubt Jesus is Alive: Stories
47:22
Poetry Review! Steven Espada Dawson's "Late to the Search Party" with B Mossotti
17:11
Write With Me! My Novel and Essay Updates, Summer in Chicago, and (of course) Nelson Algren
23:30
The Best Stories I've Read This Month!! Claire Keegan, George Saunders, Mary Robison, and more
19:07
Two of the Best Books I've Read This Year: Among Friends and Never a Lovely So Real
29:32
Dublin and Paris Book Haul, Plus Nelson Algren's "Never Come Morning"
59:18
Poet Gabrielle Bates on Her Collection Judas Goat, and Literature as a Way of Living Multiple Lives
20:44
New Fiction in Translation: That's All I Know by Elisa Levi, Good and Evil by Samanta Schweblin
19:18
Writing Vlog: Novel Progress, Re-reading Normal People
14:30
Katie Kitamura's New Novel, "Audition"
01:17:19
Jon Hickey on His Debut Novel BIG CHIEF and the Books That Inspired It
24:13
Spring Reads: Invisible Man, Goon Squad, Audition, Big Chief
31:57
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, Poetry Recs, Memoirs, Other Updates
18:34
How I Analyze Books!
19:08
Songwriting and Literature: Jason Isbell's "Foxes in the Snow"
21:14
February Reads and March TBR: Jennifer Egan, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and I'm Starting a Substack!
39:22
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar: A Reading Vlog (featuring my Dad!!)
16:49
What I'm Reading This Semester and Other Updates: Research, Reading Slumps, Writing Plans
01:26:27
The Devil Three Times: A Novel - Rickey Fayne in Conversation with Alex Gershman
25:51
NYC Vlog, Story Revisions, Song of Solomon and Their Eyes Were Watching God
56:11
Poetry with Dyson Smith: His Writing Process, the Works of Diane Seuss and Denis Johnson
14:13
My 2025 Reading/Writing Plans! Author Interviews, Research Projects, Special Guests
22:19
John Barth's First Novel, David Foster Wallace's Last
47:09
Book Review With My Dad! Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
16:23
Write a Novel With Me!
16:00
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, "Postmodernism," Revised Lolita Opinions,
27:04
Film and Play Recs, Tolstoy's Short Works, Alcoholism in Literature
39:32
Heavy Reads: Lolita, Crime and Punishment, the Stories of Andre Dubus
21:39
How I Write Short Stories
31:32
October Reads (More Russian Lit) and Why You Should Go to Author Events
25:08
5 Short Stories Worth Your Time
26:39
September Reads: Russian Lit, Letters to a Young Poet
32:08
Reading Vlog: Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Luzhin Defense'
14:24
What an English Major Has to Read in One Semester
37:10
Book Review With My Dad! White Noise by Don DeLillo
24:43
August Reads: New Favorite Short Story Collection, A Claire Keegan Masterpiece, First Don DeLillo
24:18
Iceland Trip, George Saunders' Short Stories, This Other Eden by Paul Harding
23:14
Study Abroad Wrap-Up, Reading Updates (Leo Tolstoy, Cormac McCarthy), The Art vs. The Artist
14:31
First Week in Copenhagen, Thoughts on Sally Rooney's Normal People
25:20
Haruki Murakami and Zadie Smith, Croatia Travels, Raymond Carver and Claire Keegan Collections
20:59
Six of the Best Short Stories I've Read This Month: Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov + more
21:35
Summer in Stockholm, What I'm Reading, the Brilliance of George Saunders
22:47
Full Semester of Reading as a Creative Writing Major, Summer TBR, Amor Towles "Table For Two"