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Jim Franks: Existential Bread (DC871)

Jim Franks

Existential Bread

PB Book/eBook/MP3-Book/FLAC-Book

Drag City
Released
2025-01-31
Catalog #
DC871
Paperback Book $21.00
Digital ePUB & PDF $9.99
MP3 Audiobook $16.99
FLAC Audiobook $19.99

All Tracks

  1. Title and Introduction (music by Bill MacKay and James Schroeder) 1:35

  2. Sustainability is perfection (music by Bill MacKay) 0:52

  3. What the fuck are we thinking (music by James Schroeder) 13:11

  4. But why should I (music by Whitney Johnson) 7:10

  5. What are you gonna put in your bread (music by James Schroeder) 44:14

  6. If you wanna get started (music by Shutaro Noguchi) 10:32

  7. Mixing doesn't really matter (music by Whitney Johnson) 15:50

  8. Bulk Fermentation (music by James Schroeder) 6:38

  9. Shaping doesn't really matter (music by Bill MacKay) 15:33

  10. Proofing (music by Shutaro Noguchi) 5:58

  11. Baking (music by Rob Frye) 7:40

  12. Keeping it fresh (music by Rob Frye) 3:48

  13. You made it (music by Bill MacKay) 3:36

  14. Thanks youse (music by Shutaro Noguchi) 0:57

About this product

Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who’s written a love story about bread, which is to say he’s written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental poetry, Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf just as there are many ways to live a life.

Audiobook version of Existential Bread, read by Jim himself and soundtracked with music played by Whitney Johnson, Rob Frye, Bill MacKay, James Schroeder and special guest Shutaro Nogochi, is now available for preorder and releases March 10, 2026.