Welcome to those who can't teach anymore, a narrative podcast series that explores why teachers are leaving education and what can be done to stop the exodus.

This season, we're getting a look at the year and the life of teachers from across the country through their audio journals.

I am Darcy Aster Miller.

This is Megan Overgoth.

This is Sophie V.

This is Charlie Blackwood.

This is Taylor Barrett. This is Iva Moss Redman.

This is David Whisker. Dan Morris.

This is Amanda Smith. Look for those who can't teach anymore, season two. A different kind of the same thing.

This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

And it's time for the it books of June 2025, one of the, after September, I think the biggest

month of the year, generally speaking in June. A lot of books coming out this month. And unlike in the

movie business, we do get, well, really throughout the year, award season fodder. And I think for June, you do get

commercial upmarket literary is coming out of the woodwork. Like you can't swing a dead cat

without hitting a commercial literary book that has maybe some year and potential. I don't know.

So when you swing a dead cat, Rebecca, do you two hands?

Like, do you swing it around your head or do you kind of do like the Pamchenko from the cutting edge?

Oh, are we, we're talking lassoes or baseball bats, I think is the question.

When you swing a dead cat? I would be inclined to go lassoes.

Right. Over your head, it just feels like a lock

and go wrong. It feels like momentum, though. I like the momentum of that. Yeah, I'd have to take some

dramamine to do the full baseball bat. Anyway, to be the cat, you'd have to take the dramamine.

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