Walking and Talking with Henry

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Major publishers are quietly using AI to write jacket copy, design covers, and pitch literary agents, mostly without telling readers or authors. Optimists like urbanist Richard Florida argue that AI will make human judgment, taste, and imagination more valuable, not less. But that argument assumes readers are buying quality. Are they? Some of the bestselling books of all time go largely unread. De...

Why are Americans deconstructing faith, politics, and the American Dream? Three books reveal the hidden artifacts shaping our inner landscape. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe

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Every superhero story needs a villain. Every rescue needs someone who couldn't save themselves. Every man who feels powerful has to feel powerful compared to somebody. What if that's the problem? After "Superman Replaces God," Kristine pushed back: reviving the hero archetype in a country already threatened by women's gains doesn't empower anyone — it just decides who gets to be the one with power...

At a time when factions are calling for new parties and attempting to overturn the leadership within their own, Henry L. Sullivan III and Kristine Madera sit down to talk about the role of ideology in American life. When does conviction harden into tribal loyalty — and what happens to our grip on reality when the tribe's story starts to matter more than the truth? This conversation looks at partis...

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Field Notes The working logbook of an author turning his novel into a TV miniseries with AI — no studio, no crew, no Hollywood. Each Field Note documents what I've learned converting the full-cast audiobook of Coliseum into film: the tools, the prompts, the costs, the failures, and the workarounds. These are the things I wish someone had told me before I started — so you don't repeat my mistakes....

Every author has heard the odds. Query hundreds of agents. Wait years. Hope someone in Hollywood notices. I stopped waiting. I’m converting the full-cast audiobook of my novel Coliseum — recorded with 11 professional voice actors — into a TV miniseries using AI video models: Seedance for action and character consistency, Kling for dialogue and camera moves, Nano Banana and Ideogram for frames, Omn...

The Fourth of July marks 250 years since a handful of colonists declared that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Two and a half centuries later — amid deep political division, eroding trust in institutions, and rapid technological upheaval — that founding question feels newly unsettled: what is government actually for? This week, writer Henry Sullivan and author...

Work has long been where many people get both money and meaning. But as AI, automation, rising costs, college debt, and a shrinking entry-level job market put pressure on traditional employment, we may need to ask a bigger question: what is work actually for? In this conversation, we explore work as income, identity, dignity, contribution, and survival—and whether a future shaped by AI requires a...

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In this conversation, we explore simulation theory as a provocative thought experiment that can reveal and collapse inherited beliefs, hidden authority structures, and the old scripts that invisibly shape what we think is possible. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe

Unpopular policies, major backlash, and a country in flux. People are angry, but we’re not all angry about the same things, and we don’t express our anger in the same ways. Many are wondering: What comes next? Join Henry Sullivan and Kristine Madera for a live, unfiltered conversation about our uncertain future. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

What do you call it when someone in power is so gleeful at the prospect of harming the people under his authority that he drapes a flag around his shoulders like a cape on his way to the vote? Or when, in discussing a threat made by the President of the United States, a TV personality asks the question, “This deadline that President Trump has set, 8:00 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilizatio...

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Walking through New York on a beautiful day This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe

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Come walk with me for a few minutes. Today I’m talking about the part of the writing journey nobody warns you about — the waiting. The long stretches where nothing seems to be happening, and you start wondering if you’re wasting your time. But here’s the truth: the waiting is the work. Publishing moves slowly. Growth moves slowly. Careers move slowly. And none of that means you’re failing. In this...

Henry and Kristine discuss the inner landscape at a time when gambling and God are both booming. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe

Shameless plugs Coliseum – Henry L Sullivan III Deena Undone – Debra K Every Spirit of the Plain – B. Marcus Walker The New Empire – Alison McBain This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe

One member of the Writer’s Room is a professional editor. When it comes to writing, is she always right? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe