How To Love Lit Podcast · Christy and Garry Shriver
Anton Chekhov || The Bet
September 13, 2025·45 min·4 clips
A banker considers murder to avoid paying a bet, questioning his own morality after 15 years.
As heard by us
A patient, clear-eyed Chekhov discussion that lets a moral wager feel freshly alive.
How To Love Lit opens its Chekhov discussion by treating the story as a small, hard moral problem: punishment, conscience, and the confidence of a 25-year-old who believes living, however unevenly, is still better than not at all.
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You want Chekhov's wager explained without literary jargon.
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