Jacke spends his birthday reflecting on Chicago film critic Roger Ebert (1942-2013), the Judd Apatow show Freaks and Geeks, and other literature-and-life topics. Enjoy!

Additional listening suggestions:

421 HOL Goes to the Movies
79 Music that Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
149 Raising Readers (aka The Power of Literature in an Imperfect World

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