Welcome back to the Book Club. I'm Michael Knowles. This month we will be covering one of the darkest and funniest and greatest novellas ever written.

The Death of Ivan Iliich by Leo Tolstoy.

And here to help me work through this is one of my darkest funniest friends, Matt Walsh, host of the Matt Walsh show,

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Matt, thank you for joining us on the show.

Thanks for having me.

I asked you, I said, what book do you want to do?

You're a learned man. We could cover any range of topics you you didn't

even hesitate the death of Yvonne Iliage yeah that's it is very on-brand

for me it's about death and I think we talked about maybe doing

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