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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning)
– The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
– The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
– The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe
– The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
– Macbeth
– Theatre Kid Christianity by Tara Isabella Burton
– The Secret Show episode about New Verse Review’s Anti-Me Poetics
– Dream Song 149 by John Berryman
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