Henry Oliver is the author of the book "Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life" and prolific blogger on literature.

Episode transcript

Timestamps

(0:00:00) Intro

(0:00:38) Late Bloomers

(0:07:28) Great Man theory of history

(0:16:14) The Common Reader

(0:20:56) Rear Window

(0:22:58) Literature vs film or music

(0:26:41) Mimesis

(0:30:07) Artistic themes

(0:38:11) Knausgaard, Bolano, Ferrante

(0:39:27) Misreading

(0:42:54) Harold Bloom

(0:45:47) Art and economic growth

(0:47:25) LLMs

(0:50:55) Hayek

(0:52:20) Keats

(0:54:35) Literature vs philosophy

(0:57:25) Morality

(0:59:11) Nepotism

(1:00:00) Shakespeare

(1:06:57) Henry’s output

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