Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Randall Jarrell’s poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

– Randall Jarrell’s poem “90 North”

– Poet and critic Jonathan Farmer

– Alain de Botton’s book The Architecture of Happiness

– A. E. Stallings’ translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days

– Bulfinch’s Mythology

– Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths

– Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin, and Ned Hoopes’ book The Greek Gods

– My 2019 conversation with JP Gritton

– Colson Whitehead’s novels The Intuitionist, The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, and Zone One

– Matt Matros’ essay “As the Pandemic Drags on, ‘Zone One’ Warns Us Not to Hope”

– Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz

– The anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem “The Wanderer”

– Louis MacNeice’s poem “The Suicide”

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