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Sep 2017
38m 8s

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: Epi...

Night Vale Presents
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A new podcast from Night Vale Presents. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts. John Darnielle and Joseph Fink discuss the role in their lives of art, faith, and satan with John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and the upcoming Turtles All The Way Down. And we learn why making the job of creating art more difficult can sometimes make the art ... Show More
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