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.
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.
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 guest is Cheryl Rainford: high school friend, theater kid, VW Thing legend, and (plot twist) my kidney recipient. We talk The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong: found family, underdogs, Western Mass vibes, and why “JUICY” sweatpants are basically a setting detail.
Stick around: two weeks from now I’m talking with Josh Blue about The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.