161: A Canticle for Leibowitz
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a bunch of monks sitting around copying stuff. Jelani Sims returns to discuss Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959). Host John McCoy with Jelani Sims.
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