Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Cosmopolitan Brooklyn Sex Novelist Himself, Brian Platzer

– Jennifer Senior’s essay “Twenty Years Gone”

– Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones

– John Irving’s novel A Prayer for Owen Meany

– Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom

– Jack Kerouac’s novel Visions of Gerard

– Katy Waldman’s essay “There Once Was a Girl”

– William Logan’s review of Thomas James’ book Letters to a Stranger

– Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones

– Stephen O’Connor’s novel Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings

– Brian’s novel The Body Politic

– The very fine Able Muse Zoom poetry reading in which I hypocritically participated

– Anthony Hecht's poem "A Letter"

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