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Beach Reads

NPR
Published June 14, 2019 at 11:29 AM EDT
Contestants Matt Spiegel and Michelle Barras appear on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.
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Contestants Matt Spiegel and Michelle Barras appear on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

It's a mash-up of clues about authors' names and common beach objects. If Jay Gatsby put on sunscreen at the beach, he'd have S-P-F Scott Fitzgerald to thank.

Heard on Josh Gondelman And Catherine Cohen: Brooklyn Famous.

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