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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Check out Alice’s SLEERICKETS Episode map!
– Pre-order the new book of short stories by my wife, Joanna Pearson!
– Buy 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!
– Watch the Think Symposium talks and readings here! (Here’s a link to mine, which stars at 52:14)
– Elijah’s book Against Oblivion is out now!
– The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Will and Attention by Megahn O'Gieblyn
Is God another addiction? by James Wood
Ep 21: A Dirty Thing for Boys, ft. Steve Teare
You Can See Everything (2026)
John Kaag's lecture William James and the Sick Soul
Search Engine: Unreliable Narrator
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Secret show notes
"Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust" by Sir Philip Sidney
The Sad Dads of the National by Amanda Petrusich
Is Will Power Overrated by Meghan O’Gieblyn (Alice did not realise until writing these show notes that this review is by Meghan O’Gieblyn but that makes a lot of sense)
Saint Judas by James Wright
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
