Welcome back to Jonah Asks. This talk with Jeff Alessandrelli is wide-ranging and thought-provoking. Jeff's book And Yet is an experimental fiction novel full of quotations, philosophical ideas around shyness, desire and selfhood.

The novel and the conversation both explore many aspects of modern life:

*isolation vs connection;

*therapy/mental health

*living via text vs living in the present moment

*vulnerability vs social conditioning/masculinity

*creative ambition vs acceptance;

*societal expectations vs individual truth.

*talking vs self-consciousness

*identity and performing the self

Link to Jeff's book:

https://pankmagazine.com/shop/preorder-yet-jeff-alessandrelli/

music samples:

"Me, Myself and I" De La Soul

"Saturday in the Park" Chicago

Essay in The Atlantic on the sex recession, Dec 2018https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/

Spalding Gray on Charlie Rose (1997)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geKEoxpPh5Y&t

Thank You For Listening and Sharing,

Jonah