Hop aboard the Brolita Express! Find a seat between Orwell and Borges. We're stopping in Austin and London on our way to Hive, a mysterious Greek island run entirely by women, ruled by a masked queen, where only the manliest men are sometimes invited. Jack Mason (The Perfume Nationalist) and Yeerk (Bistro Californium) are on the list. And so of course is my old friend Garin Hovannisian, illusionist and author of the must-read new novel HIVE, which I urge you all to read while summer is with us.

The audio in Austin in the first half is low, so please raise your volume then adjust as we cross the pond

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If you joined us IRL in LA or Austin or NYC or London, it was lovely to see you.

A show about a mystery about the loss of love and magic from our lives -- and how to get it back. Guest starring Garin Hovannisan, author of the new novel HIVE.

Part 1: Hollywood Edition. Recorded live on Hollywood Boulevard, a few steps from Grauman's Chinese, on June 14.

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The life love and man magic of Tennessee Williams, poet laureate of American summer. The study begins with his first three: the timeless Glass Menagerie, the deathless Streetcar Named Desire, and the underrated Summer & Smoke, a parable of frigidity most relevant to our times.

With Zach Langley of I'm So Popular and Josh of The Dionysian Dream

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As helicopters descend on the city it's time to cruise down to Johnie's Broiler the magical diner in Downey where Tom Waits abandons his tuna melt in SHORT CUTS (1993). What better place to enter Robert Altman's masterpiece mosaic of "untapped Los Angeles" and the Raymond Carver stories within, and what better guest to go with than the extraordinary Matthew Wilder, last seen with us at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. Must book and movie and life always be at odds?

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HIVE will be in LA on June 14, Austin June 17, NYC June 21, and London June 26...at some fabulous locations. DM us on patreon if you'd like to attend

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Let's try to save the blues from SINNERS. After reviewing Ry Coogler's latest up against the much more profound BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006) and more liberated CROSSROADS (1986), I take Glen Rockney and Crypto Psi of Rare Candy on a personal-historical tour of the music that made me the man (and woman) I am today. 

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Also mentioned in this episode:

Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed from It by LeRoi Jones

Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock n' Roll Pantheon by Michael Lydon

And a roster of bluesman and women too long to list.

Some thoughts on the bad news about Scott Adams, and an appreciation.

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A celebration of Erich Auerbach's masterpiece Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, in light of the last decade's institutional conspiracy to shrink reality in Western media, which hits a grotesque low in Netflix's Adolescence.

Guest starring Yeerk of the Bistro Californium podcast

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Joan's secret love, Eve's secret letters, and the art of gossip with Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz and Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

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Some thoughts on the passing of a warrior.

See FAA 18 Mortal Combat with David Horowitz and the Secret Chapter: Death is the Mother of Beauty

In this smoke break mini ep, I review the new album Pretty in Scorn by Cara Cunningham

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