Writer Lara Levitan joins us to talk about sticking to your craft, other authors' influence, and keeping the mystery alive.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Theda Bara, still from Madame Mystery [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Wes Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson
The French Dispatch
Annie Baker
Janet Planet
Jen Beagin
Big Swiss
Jen Beagin
Pretend I'm Dead
Jen Beagin
Vacuum in the Dark
Hans Blumenberg
Paradigms for a Metaphorology
Svetlana Boym
Mark Frost / David Lynch
Twin Peaks
G. W. F. Hegel
Nick Hunt
Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
Miranda July
All Fours
Adam Kelly
New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age
Abbas Kiarostami
Lara Levitan
The Secret Sugar Daddies
Madame Pamita
Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods
Simon Morley, ed.
The Sublime
Kornél Mundruczó
White God
Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book
Orhan Pamuk
Snow
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Archaic Torso of Apollo"
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duino Elegies
Salman Rushdie
Christoph Rüter
Hans Blumenberg—The Invisible Philosopher
George Saunders
Story Club with George Saunders
Lowell Sheppard
Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan
Peter Sloterdijk
Critique of Cynical Reason
Peter Sloterdijk
You Must Change Your Life
David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
The Pale King
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Rachel Yoder
Nightbitch
