What is the role of the writer and intellectual in a culture of crass commodities and pop culture? Should we be thankful for the disappearance of the public intellectual in America? Can we be optimistic that a new literature and a new literary culture can come from our digital age? With special guest writer and translator Josh Calvo we examine these questions, along with multiple unplanned detours into Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities." Articles referenced in this podcast: 1.) https://hlo.hu/interview/mircea-cartarescu-interview.html 2.) https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/what-is-and-isnt-literature/

Music attribution: “Sunday Smooth" by Scott Buckley, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - www.scottbuckley.com.au.