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Episode · SmartLess · 2025-03-24

John Lithgow on SmartLess: every book mentioned

2 books · With John Lithgow · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Every once in a while we class it up over here: John Lithgow. Acting by osmosis, figuring out the funny, a wizard dog, and a witch with a pizza.

John Lithgow discussed A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. A Doll's House

    Henrik Ibsen · at 6:21

    Discussed
    “I was about 2 years old, one of Norah's children in a doll's house with my father playing Torva.”
    John Lithgow John Lithgow 2025-03-24 Listen at 6:21
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    J. K. Rowling · at 40:30

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.

    Discussed
    “Well, I seem to be behind everybody every uh I I'm I'm just I'm halfway through the second of these seven novels.”
    John Lithgow John Lithgow 2025-03-24 Listen at 40:30
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It's like It's like uh the portrait of Dorian Gray.”
Speaker John Lithgow 2025-03-24 Listen at 55:22
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