Ep 259: We’re Not Avocados, ft. Alexis & Joanna
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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!
– The Necklace of Harmonia, Sonnets of Thebes by Elijah Perseus Blumov, out now from Lettre Sauvage
– Liking What You See: A Documentary by Ted Chiang
– Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang
– Exhalation (story) by Ted Chiang
– The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
– The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
– Bad Neighbors by Edward P. Jones
– Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor
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
