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We Are Afraid
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We Are Afraid

Solo ep on some recent curatorial developments and also existential despair, with and without God.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

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Ep 234: Midlife Show-and-Tell, ft. Katie Dozier

– Tar River Poetry

– Pedro Poitevin

Sunil Iyengar

Jared Carter

– David Lehman

– For the Time Being by W. H. Auden

Death, an Ode by John Forbes

– Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

– Canti by Giacomo Leopardi, trans. Jonathan Galassi

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti

– On the Sufferings of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer

On the Vanity of Existence by Arthur Schopenhauer

– Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Ch…

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