Post Era: Recent Episodes
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Lacan: artist or con artist? Should you read Écrits or the Seminars? Tell us about your father...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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We talk about writing, the cult of productivity, laziness, and why unstructured play is NOT a crime.
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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..."
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We talked to Blake Butler about his latest memoir, Molly, out now from Archway Editions: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Molly/Blake-Butler/9781648230370
Art, scams, and scam artistes: Santos, Shkreli, H.H. Holmes to Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Luka Magnotta, and beyond.
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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...
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We talk to Nathan Dragon about writing, acting, and The Champ Is Here (a forthcoming collection).
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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 (?).
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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.
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You Were Never Really Here (2017) starring Joaquin Phoenix vs The Sound of Freedom (2023) starring some guy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Don DeLillillillillilloooooo
We discuss the turmoil at Penguin Random House, NYRB classics, Taylor Swift's contributions to the economy, and this Bronze Age Pervert person.
We discuss Infinite Jest (lol) by David Foster Wallace, as well as "Imaginary" by Anna Kornbluh, a fascinating essay adapted from her forthcoming book Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism.
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We talk submarines, Agnes Callard's travel musings, the return of Bookforum, and answer prying questions from YOU, our dear listeners.
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We discuss the Unabomber Manifesto and the recent article "No Culture for Alienated Men: What Ted Kaczynski, Silvio Berlusconi and Cormac McCarthy Have in Common." (Spoiler: not very much.)
Happy Bloomsday to all once and future Joyce heads out there. May the spirit of Ulysses rise up to meet you.
We're unlocking our premium episode on Cormac McCarthy. May he rest in peace.
I am a passenger
And I ride, and I ride
I ride through the city's backsides
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight
I am the passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's ripped back sky
And everything looks good tonight
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Author Elle Nash joins us to talk about faith, Glasgow, factory farming, and her forthcoming novel Deliver Me.
https://www.ellenash.net
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We talk literary prizes and the New York Times piece "I Won a Prize. So What?" We also debut a prize of our own.
We talk to writer and artist Aiden Arata about memes, autofiction, fetishistic boredom, outsider art, Renaissance faires, nihilism, our cosmic wound, and more.
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Russia. Literature. Politics. Culture. Covid. Propaganda. Jokes. Our most avant-garde episode yet... ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/postera
We talk to Emily Segal, author of Mercury Retrograde and founding member of the art collective K-HOLE, a trend forecasting group.
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Tom Sachs space camp art cult exposed!! Plus the best writing advice we’ve ever heard. ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/postera
Writer and director Matthew Gasda joins us to discuss art, politics, The New York Times, and his forthcoming book Dimes Square and Other Plays.
https://matthewgasda.substack.com @FOMO_sacer
We talk AI and sci-fi, Elizabeth Koch's pain holes and perception boxes, the fate of criticism, and literary juggernaut Catapult. ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/postera
We discuss art as shit, criticism as aggression, scatology in Gravity's Rainbow, Bronze Age perversions, feces, fascism, and fashion week.
Should writers and artists be afraid of new AI offerings from Microsoft and Google? How do chatbots work—is there a little guy in there? ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/postera
We talk to artist and writer Brad Phillips about Canada, conspiracies, and his piece "The Troubles," part of NDA: An Autofiction Anthology.
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We discuss the work of Michel Houellebecq, and his Harper's article, "The European Way to Die." ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera
We discuss the work of Ottessa Moshfegh, starting with her recent piece, "The Smoker," in the Paris Review.
Author Blake Butler joins us to talk about his novel Alice Knott, forthcoming projects, climate-related art vandalism, and the world of finance (in a non-advisory capacity).
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I am a passenger And I ride, and I ride I ride through the city's backsides I see the stars come out of the sky Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky You know it looks so good tonight
I am the passenger I stay under glass I look through my window so bright I see the stars come out tonight I see the bright and hollow sky Over the city's ripped back sky And everything looks good tonight ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera
Long live Samuel Beckett, the bard of silence and void, one of the funniest and the darkest to ever do it. Post Era wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season.
Do you have an MFA? Do you want an MFA? Listen to this episode and you're officially a Master of Fictitious Arts (aka being a good liar). Topics include McGurl's The Program Era, Kraft cheesiness, and Hemingway's famous ejection from the MFA school of life. ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera
We discuss NDAs, autofiction, and our darkest secrets with Caitlin Forst and Chris Molnar. NDA: An Autofiction Anthology is out now.
We talk about Kathy Acker: literary iconoclast, pirate, and transgressor extraordinaire. How did Acker create her image, and how has it changed since her death in 1997, and since the release of Chris Kraus's After Kathy Acker in 2017?
We break down the spooky oeuvre of Bret Easton Ellis, his antics, and his career from Less Than Zero to his forthcoming novel The Shards. ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera
We discuss the Hobart interview with Alex Perez, Kanye's appearance on Tucker Carlson and return to the "sunken place," and much more.
Thirsty for annihilation? We get to the bottom of Nick Land--before the memes, the internet fame, and the self-imposed exile. ------- To hear the rest, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera
To hear the rest, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera ------- We dissect My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Nordic phenom who wrote at least 3,936 pages about himself and ushered in the Age of Autofiction. Don't forget, you can't spell "Karl Ove" without "love."
We continue to explore the contemporary fascination with apocalyptic thought, shelling out on millenarian fervor, the unholy trinity of matter, energy, and information, and all the reasons we love to immanentize the eschaton.
We talk more realism, and discuss Tom McCarthy's novel The Making of Incarnation. What does a motion-capture company called Pantarey (Greek for "everything flows") have to do with sculpture? What exactly is inside mysterious Box 808? To hear the rest of the episode, subscribe at www.patreon.com/postera
We talk about realism, what it is, what it does, and what it pretends to be, from Fredric Jameson's Antimonies of Realism to Scheherazade to Nabokov putting "reality" in quotation marks. (Doesn't sound very realistic actually.) Alternate title: Welcome to the Desert of the Real...
Technomysticism, talismans, Big Tech, magick, manifesting, and snake-oil salespersons throughout history. Did you know that Jeff Bezos wants to put a clock inside a mountain that will last 10,000 years? True story--also we're now selling self-betterment pamphlets.
Welcome, welcome, welcome. For our very first episode, we talk about the legendary beef between Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, how these two were facets on the same mysterious and self-mythologizing jewel, and why Warhol should've paid Valerie Solanas way more than $25.