NB: I neglected to cite the line in full: “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Godsong (The Bhagavad Gita) trans. Amit Majmudar

– Heteropessimism

– In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried by Amy Hempel

– The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

– The Shameful Profession by James Laughlin

– About a Boy by Nick Hornby

– ContraPoints

– Alice’s conversation with Ursula Robinson-Shaw

– Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

– The Black Art by Anne Sexton

– Pastor Coleman!

– Men by John Crowe Ransom

– The Tempest

– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

– King Lear

– Promises by Robert Penn Warren

– Traveling Through the Dark by William E. Stafford

– Traveling Through the Yard by Rae Armantrout

– Manly Conclusions by Mary Hood

– The Seeker (episode of Poetry Off the Shelf ft. Kim Stafford)

– Motherhood by Sheila Heti

– Commonplace w/ Rachel Zucker

– Adam by Anthony Hecht

– Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt

– Commonplace w/ Rachel Zucker

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