Ep 256: The Giant Crab
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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!
– Minor Tiresias on Cesar Vallejo
– In Future Posts on Lana Del Ray
– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
– The Optimists by Brian Platzer
– The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
– In This Novel, It’s the Student Who Shapes the Teacher’s Life by Jean Hanff Korelitz
– The Kinda Sorta Real-Life Larry (My memory was slightly inaccurate. It appears this modest Wikipedia page would have existed even if Maugham hadn’t written a book kinda sorta about this guy.)
– Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty
– The clip in question from the Stone–Parker lecture
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
