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This Father's Day, which is also Bloomsday, we talk to Lee Klein about James Joyce, your dad, brochures to nowhere, the crisis atop the American writing pyramid, and Lee's book, Like It Matters: An Unpublishable Novel, out today from Sagging Meniscus Press.

How do writers hide the truth? We discuss "Persecution and the Art of Writing" by Leo Strauss, "The Right-Wing Straussianism of Lana Del Rey," and many other cryptic and obscure topics. To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera

The worm in RFK Jr.'s brain, the worm in Beckett's Unnameable, the worm in you, the worm in me, worms in the scientific publishing industry. "Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?"

In which we discuss love, marriage, literature, plot, marriages in literature, marriage plots, and that infinitely replenishing prism of regret hahahaha jk....unless? To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera

We discuss the connections between poetry and surveillance via Evan Kindley's piece, "Caught on Tape." 

We talk to Jarett Kobek, the author of ATTA, I Hate the Internet, The Future Won't Be Long, Motor Spirit, How to Find Zodiac, and other works. We're also pretty sure he solved the Zodiac Killer case. WE HEARD YOU LIKE BOOKS I'M OPEN TO ANYTHING

We talk about writing, the cult of productivity, laziness, and why unstructured play is NOT a crime. To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera

Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie, founder of The Wylie Agency: "I’m very interested in the work the CIA does and how they do it...I think there’s a lot to learn from the Agency..." To hear the rest, subscribe at patreon.com/postera

We talked to Blake Butler about his latest memoir, Molly, out now from Archway Editions: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Molly/Blake-Butler/9781648230370