Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025)
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels Minor Black Figures (Riverhead, 2025), The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature …
MUSCLE MAN with jordan castro
Very handsome novelist Jordan Castro joins to discuss his fascinating new book MUSCLE MAN (2025年), a fascinating work of fiction about an English professor who hates being an English professor and loves lifting weights. We discuss novels of the mind, Mishima Yukio and the mimetic flattening of reac…
Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package, Breaking Down the State of AI | Katherine Boyle, Mikey Shulman, Immad Akhund, Jordan Castro
(00:17) - Timeline in Turmoil over OpenAI
(09:36) - Fannie & Freddie May Buy Tech Stakes
(11:27) - The Mansion Section
(18:23) - Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package
(28:06) - Breaking Down the State of AI
(55:55) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
(01:11:07) - Katherine Boyle, a general partner at…
E17: Muscle Man (Feat. Chris Gayomali)
This week we decided to do a book club about Jordan Castro’s novel Muscle Man. We were joined by our friend Chris Gayomali, a writer who edits at SSENSE and also writes the excellent Substack HEAVIES which you have to read or else you’re not allowed to listen to Macho Pod. Muscle Man is a very funn…
1012. Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro is the author of the novel Muscle Man, available from Catapult Press.
Castro is also the author of The Novelist, and two poetry books. His fiction and non-fiction has been published in Harper’s, The Point, Tin House, Muumuu House, and more. He is the Deputy Director of the Cluny Inst…
Mind, Muscle, and Mimesis
Chris is joined by Jordan Castro, a novelist, essayist, and the deputy director of the Cluny Institute. They discuss Jordan’s new novel, Muscle Man, as well as the discontents of academia, Jordan’s literary influences, the place of fiction in contemporary America, and their favorite campus novels.S…
The Back of the Book: Mind, Muscle, and Mimesis
Chris is joined by Jordan Castro, a novelist, essayist, and the deputy director of the Cluny Institute. They discuss Jordan’s new novel, Muscle Man, as well as the discontents of academia, Jordan’s literary influences, the place of fiction in contemporary America, and their favorite campus novels. …
Gay Men and the Politics of Hotness
We read George Stambolian's "Interview With a Hot Man" from the February 1983 issue of Christopher Street and talk about the central, yet perennially controversial, role that physical beauty plays in gay culture. We compare notes on our own experiences of feeling hot and wanting hot people, and abo…
Roy Lichtenstein in Dallas. The Literature of Masculinity. A Conversation with Sean Hooks
A conversation with author and critic Sean Hooks.
Part one:
Roy Lichtenstein in the Studio, at the Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center
"Roy Lichtenstein show reveals the artistry behind pop art simplicity" (Dallas Morning News / archive link)
Part two:
"Put Your Kids to Work," a novele…
[PREVIEW] 122 - Yo, Jimbo! (ft. Rare Candy)
It's a kickback with the homies at Rare Candy Industries. We're talking Blake Butler's MOLLY, Jordan Castro's statement on the racist publishing industry, 1-star bombing your peers from sock puppet accounts, and Akira Kurosawa's YOJIMBO.
Listen to Rare Candy and subscribe to their premium feed: r…
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