Lacan: artist or con artist? Should you read Écrits or the Seminars? Tell us about your father... To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
This Father's Day, which is also Bloomsday, we talk to Lee Klein about James Joyce, your dad, brochures to nowhere, the crisis atop the American writing pyramid, and Lee's book, Like It Matters: An Unpublishable Novel, out today from Sagging Meniscus Press.
How do writers hide the truth? We discuss "Persecution and the Art of Writing" by Leo Strauss, "The Right-Wing Straussianism of Lana Del Rey," and many other cryptic and obscure topics. To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
The worm in RFK Jr.'s brain, the worm in Beckett's Unnameable, the worm in you, the worm in me, worms in the scientific publishing industry. "Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?"
In which we discuss love, marriage, literature, plot, marriages in literature, marriage plots, and that infinitely replenishing prism of regret hahahaha jk....unless? To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
We discuss the connections between poetry and surveillance via Evan Kindley's piece, "Caught on Tape."
We talk to Jarett Kobek, the author of ATTA, I Hate the Internet, The Future Won't Be Long, Motor Spirit, How to Find Zodiac, and other works. We're also pretty sure he solved the Zodiac Killer case. WE HEARD YOU LIKE BOOKS I'M OPEN TO ANYTHING
We talk about writing, the cult of productivity, laziness, and why unstructured play is NOT a crime. To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie, founder of The Wylie Agency: "I’m very interested in the work the CIA does and how they do it...I think there’s a lot to learn from the Agency..." To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
We talked to Blake Butler about his latest memoir, Molly, out now from Archway Editions: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Molly/Blake-Butler/9781648230370
We discuss Tár, starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Todd Field.
Art, scams, and scam artistes: Santos, Shkreli, H.H. Holmes to Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Luka Magnotta, and beyond. To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
We discuss Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA, a fictionalized biography of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta.
We talk about Nietzsche and the people who love him, including the author himself... To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
We talk to Nathan Dragon about writing, acting, and The Champ Is Here (a forthcoming collection). cash 4 gold books blue arrangements nathan dragon
We're unlocking our premium episode with Elle Nash 🔥🔥🔥🩸🩸🩸 happy pub day to her novel DELIVER ME
I'm bored, Chairman of Debord. We live in a Society (of the Spectacle) folks, and we're gonna be here all night.... Part 2, on The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, following up on our episode on Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen (?). To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera
The Four Horsemen of Literal Fascism or just some Wild and Crazy Guys? Part 1 on the Vanity Fair article, "How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality." Part 2 (next episode) on The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.
To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera ------- You Were Never Really Here (2017) starring Joaquin Phoenix vs The Sound of Freedom (2023) starring some guy.
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