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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 624


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You can order Johnson’s Novel Takes: Essays on Literature, available for order here

James O’Meara and Derek Hawthorne joined Greg Johnson to discuss his new book Novel Takes: Essays on Literature. It is now available to download or listen to online.

Topics include:

1:30 – Why did Greg decide to publish this book?

10:00 – How James inspired Greg to read A Confederacy of Dunces
13:43 – Greg’s essays on the Dune saga
27:44 – Can we get to Mars with liberal democracy?
32:52 – Frank Herbert was influenced by David Lynch’s film
42:30 – Essays on Lovecraft
1:10:54 – Listener question about speed reading
1:12:50 – Question on The Godfather
1:13:30 – Some more thoughts on Lovecraft’s relevance to the political right
1:21:40 – Derek’s thoughts on A Confederacy of Dunces
1:24:24 – Why A Confederacy of Dunces had trouble finding a publisher
1:42:11 – An amusing anecdote about cinema and actors’ weight
1:44:33 – James O’Meara’s idea of the Trad Queen
1:54:54 – Next episode’s Book Club

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