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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g ood! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r eview!

– 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

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