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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Of an Age (2022)
Acute Misfortune (2020)

Cooling by Tori Amos

Animal Kingdom (2010)
Talk to Me (2022)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Past Lives (2023)
Aftersun (2022)

The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan
To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

Naomi Kanakia

Frank O’Connor

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Formal friendly journals with non-bullshit submission policies

Dan Kois

Essential American Poets

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

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