WAKE buys you a third round and settles in for yet another Tale at the Inn, where we prominently feature multiple guns, KC Jowls and the little-known horror film Coach with the Six Insides. We bid welcome to another of Toby's former students, Ryan Benson Smith, for a lively discussion that includes a Wake-Ramones mashup, the Bluey theme song, and how media romanticises the Irish. Along the way, we enjoy a sparkling reading with the growing knowledge that everyone we're reading about is going to have a terrible headache tomorrow.

This week's readers: Ryan Benson Smith, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 370 pages complete, 258 pages to go; 58.92% read.

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As the whiskey and Guinness flow, the Tales at the Inn get all the more outlandish, Taff and Butt get out of hand, and a Russian general cops it. This week in WAKE, we geek out about geeking out with Carly Derderian, consider whether Thornton Wilder cribbed The Skin of Our Teeth from Finnegans Wake, relax our mouths enough to speak like a Newfoundlander and unlock the meaning of the language of the Beatles. And TJ is back!

This week's readers: Carly Derderian, TJ Young, Toby Malone

Progress: 354 pages complete, 274 pages to go; 52.87% read.

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It's a milestone episode of WAKE, as we sail past the halfway point on an auspicious anniversary day for Toby. TJ is out sick this week, so we checked our list of dream interim co-hosts and came up with a winner: Toby's brilliant former dramaturgy student, K'hari Constantine! Toby and K'hari dive into the first part of Tales at the Inn, with the detailed story of the Norwegian Captain, and along the way consider how the Wake sounds in a sheriff's drawl, why it's important to let your tongue taste the words, how the text fits into the greater macrocosm, and, of course, why Joyce just isn't that into you.

This week's readers: K'hari Constantine, Toby Malone

Progress: 332 pages complete, 296 pages to go; 52.87% read.

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