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Moser the Moserian
Reading list:
* A personal and stirring guide to the great Dutch painters, by Sebastian Smee
* Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Pa…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Liberals Who Love Him, and the Leftists Who Don't
Reading list:
* An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him, by Cedric Johnson
* The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness [a reply to …
2 years, 10 months ago
The LeftQueer Aesthete Dilemma
Reading List:
* “Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People,” by Naomi Kanakia
* “Brandon Taylor’s online writing is vibra…
2 years, 10 months ago
Our Neighbor Elon and His Big Giga
If you live in Austin as I have for the past 17 years, the phrase “new Austin” is pretty self-explanatory. Over the past few decades, the population …
2 years, 11 months ago
Where Be Your DFW Lit-Bros Now?
Reading list:
* “The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace,” by Mary K. Holland
* “I Really Didn’t Want to Go,” by Lauren Oyler
* “Laure…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Souls of Wesley Yang
Reading list for episode:
* “John Pistelli,” by Blake Smith
* “The Souls of Yellow Folk, by Wesley Yang,” by John Pistelli
* “The Souls of Yellow Folk—A…
3 years, 1 month ago
The White Episode
My guest on this episode of the podcast is Timothy Lensmire, professor of Education at the University of Minnesota and the author or editor of, among…
3 years, 2 months ago
Corey Robin's Big Bold Facebook Adventure
Reading list:
* Corey Robin's Facebook Page
* Not Yet Falling Apart: Two thinkers on the left offer a guide to navigating the stormy seas of modernity,…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Fall of the White American Gay
Episode Reading List:
* From Queer to Gay to Queer, James Kirchick
* How Hannah Arendt’s Zionism Helped Create American Gay Identity, Blake Smith
* When…
3 years, 3 months ago
It Girl of the Trans World: Pulitzer Prize Winner Andrea Long Chu
This podcast was recorded about a week before its subject, Andrea Long Chu, was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, so it doesn't come up …
3 years, 3 months ago