Ep 214: Serious Bad Catholic, ft. Steve Knepper, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– An Introduction to Byung-Chul Han by Steve Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, and Robert Wyllie
– Red Dragonflies by Steve Knepper
– The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
– The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
– Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death… by Richard Grant
– Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
– Brazilian waxing (NSFW, I mean, come on)
– Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
– Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
– The Devil at Woodstock by David Gosselin
– The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
– The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
– Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm
– The Sad Dads of the National by Amanda Petrusich
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
