Ep 19: The Realish Thing, ft. Brian Platzer
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Cosmopolitan Brooklyn Sex Novelist Himself, Brian Platzer
– Jennifer Senior’s essay “Twenty Years Gone”
– Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones
– John Irving’s novel A Prayer for Owen Meany
– Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom
– Jack Kerouac’s novel Visions of Gerard
– Katy Waldman’s essay “There Once Was a Girl”
– William Logan’s review of Thomas James’ book Letters to a Stranger
– Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones
– Stephen O’Connor’s novel Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
– Brian’s novel The Body Politic
– The very fine Able Muse Zoom poetry reading in which I hypocritically participated
– Anthony Hecht's poem "A Letter"
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