Bruce Wagner is a celebrated writer of novels, screenplays, and more, including the novel I’m Losing You, the screenplay to David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, and, most recently, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers. Bruce and Noah discuss the pornographic incompetence at the center of the LA fires, our civilization’s death drive, Carlos Castaneda, navigating Hollywood, a literary renaissance at Arcade Publishing, and more.

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