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September 24 Episode 92: The Church and the Fiction Writer on the Ladder of Divine Ascent
Phil Klay is joined by Kathleen Kilcup, author of Between the Light and Me: A Memoir of Beauty and Violence, to discuss Flannery O'Connor's The Church and the Fiction Writer and the 12th century icon The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Manifesto:
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/1957/03/30/flannery-oconnor-church-fiction-writer-148496/
The Art:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent_(icon)#/media/File:The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent_Monastery_of_St_Catherine_Sinai_12th_century.jpg
Katie's memoir:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/between-the-light-and-me-kathleen-kilcup/1149674487?ean=9780802885272
58 min
August 27 Episode 91: The Left Case for Great Books
Phil is joined by Dan Walden, formerly a professor in the honors college at the University of Tulsa, to discuss Dan's essay "The Left Case for Great Books," alongside Plato's Symposium.
The Manifesto:
Dan Walden "The Left Case for Great Books"
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-left-case-for-great-books/
The Art:
Plato's Symposium
https://hackettpublishing.com/symposium
1 hr 6 min
June 16 Episode 90: Belonging in the Modern World
Phil and Jake are joined by the philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin, whose new book To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is out today. We discuss Nancy Fraser and bell hooks.
The Manifesto:
Nancy Fraser, "From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump--and Beyond"
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/progressive-neoliberalism-trump-beyond/
The Art:
bell hooks, "Habits of the Heart"
https://www.amazon.com/Belonging-Culture-Place-bell-hooks/dp/041596816X
Ian's new book:
To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263626/to-arrive-where-we-started/
1 hr 17 min
May 28 Episode 89: Madame Murdoch
Jake and Phil are joined by Jenn Frey, a philosopher at the University of Virginia, to discuss Iris Murdoch and Madame Bovary
The Manifesto:
Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good
https://eganphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Murdoch-The-Sovereignty-of-Good-Over-Other-Concepts.pdf
The Art:
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Manifesto! A Podcast is sponsored by Fairfield University
1 hr 13 min
April 29 Episode 88: Suprematism and the poetry of Ukraine
Jake and Phil are joined by Vladislav Davidzon to discuss Kazimir Malevich's The Manifesto of Suprematism and the poetry of Serhiy Zhadan.
The Manifesto:
Malevich, The Manifesto of Suprematism
https://designmanifestos.org/kazimir-malevich-the-manifesto-of-suprematism/
The Art:
Serhiy Zhadan
https://poetrysociety.org/poems/three-poems-by-serhiy-zhadan
https://www.wordsforwar.com/take-only-what-is-most-important
1 hr 13 min
March 25 Episode 87: The Information State
Jake and Phil discuss Jake's new book, THE DISINFORMATION STATE, where he argues that the technological infrastructure we've built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control.
To buy the book:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250363121/theinformationstate/
1 hr 15 min
March 04 Episode 86: Spacers, Fictosexuals and Freaks
Jake and Phil are joined by internet culture reporter Katherine Dee to discuss The Fictosexual Manifesto and "Aye and Gomorrah..." by Samuel Delany
The Manifesto:
The Fictosexual Manifesto
https://vocal.media/humans/fictosexual-manifesto
The Art:
Samuel Delany, "Aye and Gomorrah..."
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/aye-and-gomorrah/
1 hr 19 min
November 21, 2025 Episode 85: Zarathustra and Judge Holden
Phil and Jake are joined by Aaron Gwyn, an author and associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to discuss Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
The Manifesto:
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm
The Art:
McCarthy, Blood Meridian
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/110472/blood-meridian-by-cormac-mccarthy/
Other Links:
Aaron Gwyn's The Cannibal Owl
https://bellepointpress.com/products/the-cannibal-owl
1 hr 43 min
October 27, 2025 Episode 84: Philip Roth and Ecclesiastes
Jake and Phil discuss Philip Roth's 1961 essay "Writing American Fiction" and the Qohelet, also known as the Book of Ecclesiastes
The Manifesto:
Philip Roth, "Writing American Fiction"
https://www.commentary.org/articles/philip-roth/writing-american-fiction/
The Qohelet
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&version=KJV
1 hr 5 min
September 29, 2025 Episode 83: Resist and Howl
Jake and Phil are joined by Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, to discuss the 1967 anti-war manifesto A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem Howl.
The Manifesto:
A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority
https://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html
The Art:
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
1 hr 21 min

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