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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!
– Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul
– To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
– Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul
– Jenny, the Halloween Spy by Lillie Patterson
– The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning)
– The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
– Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
– The Optimists by Brian Platzer
– The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
– The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe
– The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
– Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
