SmartLessDecember 1, 2025

Noah Hawley

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Guest: Noah Hawley

Have a spirulina shake, it’s Noah Hawley. Siberia with family restaurants, pitching the segue, and the Mayor of Childhood. “Family programming… that ship has sailed.” It’s an all-new SmartLess.

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

“There was an assignment which is write your own chapter of Catch-22, right? And I remember that being the first thing and kind of interesting considering I ended up, you know, write a Coen Brothers movie and write a Ridley Scott movie that there was something to that exercise of Joseph Heller's voice.”

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A Conspiracy of Tall Men

“The first novel I published was called A Conspiracy of Tall Men, and it was about a professor of conspiracy theories whose wife is killed in a plane crash, and he finally gets the conspiracy he's been looking for.”

ASIN: B07CQ9ZGM2

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