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Alt-Lit and Indie Sleaze Redux with DefaultFriend

We discuss the evolution of "alt lit," the formative experience of "indie sleaze" for millennials, why party photography went out of fashion, and the gathering wave of sex negativity.

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  Don't Be a Slave: Nietzsche on Philosophy and Slavery

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  We're Back: On how I fixed the company (a big lesson for independent schol…

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  we almost just died (and it was great, I think?)

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  The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, & Heisenberg with William Egginton

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  Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

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  Literary Outlaw: The Life of William S. Burroughs

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  John Kennedy Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces With Dan Baltic

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  AI for Writers: Striking a Balance Between Automation and Humanity

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  Ezra Pound: The Curse of Genius

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  Write for Yourself and Yourself Alone

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  Vanishing Virility: Understanding the Modern Testosterone Crisis

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  Dr. Samuel Johnson: Hustler, Savage, Grifter, Great

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  Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World

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  Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato

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  YouTube Radicalization is a Myth with Mark Ledwich

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  Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer