Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome back to the show author, historian, publisher and speaker

Mitch Horowitz.

Mitch joins us to speak about his latest and actually one of my favorite books of the year, The Miracle Club.

Mitch Horowitz, welcome back.

Thank you, good to be here.

Well, yeah, indeed. I mean, congratulations on the latest book.

I absolutely loved it. I think it's just I read a lot of books

with a job like this and this is definitely one of my favorites for the year. It's a a really really good book. Thank you so much I really appreciate that. Thank you Gordon. I've been I was thinking about this because I had

Gary Luckman one of our mutuals on the show earlier for one of his books that came out this year, right?

Which was lost knowledge of the imagination.

And I said to Gary the same thing I'm going to say to you, which is that might be my favorite

Gary Lockman book, but only because I've read all the other ones?

Yes.

Yeah, I can see in the latest book in The Miracle Club a lot of Mitch's journey it's a very personal book which I enjoyed but because

I've seen all the other ones I'm like ah right it's sort of it's fascinating to see the

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