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Anaïs Nin started her diary at 11 as a letter to the father who left, and kept it going for 35,000 pages. This month the Hot Literati book club read Henry and June. In this episode I talk about how I found Nin, the erotica she wrote for a private collector at a dollar a page, what the 1966 diary left out, and whether keeping a diary is just another way of telling your own story. Join the book club...

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Here are my thoughts on Twilight by Stephenie Meyer! Join our community at hotliterati.com! #books #readingcomprehension Download the Hot Literati AppApple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hot-literati/id6762513356Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hotliterati.app

The Rise and Fall of the Writer as a CelebrityJoin Hot Literati at hotliterati.comthere was a time when writers were the main characters of culture. hemingway's whole persona, capote's black and white ball, mailer vs. vidal fighting on live tv 📚✨ then the machine that made them famous broke. who replaced them, and what it means for writers now. new episode out now!! Download our App in t...

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In this episode, hailo discusses the book Wired for Love by Stephanie Cacioppo. We get into neuroscience, love, connection, loneliness, and more. Join Hot Literati at hotliterati.com #books #neuroscience #love #hotliterati

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Join our community at hotliterati.com In this episode, hailo discusses beauty and why it's important, with references to Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Alain de Botton, and more.

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In this episode, hailo discusses the book Reach Higher, by Big Sean with a foreword by Jay Shetty. Join our community at hotliterati.com Download the Hot Literati App here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hot-literati/id6762513356

In this episode, Laurel Touby joins Hot Literati to explore her career, how she started her company Media Bistro, which she sold for $23 million, and how to turn a community into a business in 2026. #entrepreneurship #mediabistro #laureltouby #hotliterati

Why "just plan your future" advice never works (and what actually does)Every five-year plan video tells you the same thing: get clear on your vision, write it down, go after it. So you do — and it works, for about three weeks. Then the middle hits, motivation disappears, and it feels like nothing's working. This episode is about the part that advice always skips. I'm walking thro...

You've been meaning to read Dostoevsky. This is the episode that makes you actually do it. In this episode of The Icon Series from Hot Literati, we cover everything you need to walk in ready: who Dostoevsky actually was, what a mock execution and four years in a Siberian prison camp did to his writing, how he thinks about guilt and free will and the things we want that we shouldn't, and the readin...

Most people think a morning routine is about waking up earlier. It isn't. It's about what your mind processes first — and whether you chose that, or an algorithm did. Edmund Husserl, the philosopher who founded phenomenology, had a concept called intentionality: consciousness is never just on, it's always consciousness of something. There's no blank version of your mind. So the real question every...

You pick up a book. Three pages in, your hand drifts toward your phone — not because anything happened, but because nothing did, and some part of your brain has started treating that as an emergency. This episode breaks that down: the 1940s experiment that explains your refresh habit, the philosopher who diagnosed your phone problem 350 years before phones existed, what boredom is actually for, an...

Dating doesn't feel hard because something is wrong with you. It feels hard because you've never been given the actual frameworks for it. In this episode, I walk through the five modules at the center of our course, How to Date — a course built on attachment theory, behavioral psychology, and the sociology of modern romance. We cover where your patterns come from, how interest and attracti...

Most people spend years building a life that fits someone else's idea of them. This video is about the work of figuring out what you actually want — not what you were told to want. We cover the psychology of self-concept, the difference between an inherited identity and a chosen one, and what it actually looks like to build a life that belongs to you. This isn't about finding yourself. It&...

Most creators post constantly and never build anything. The problem is almost never talent. It's infrastructure. In this episode we get into what actually separates creators who build something real from the ones who burn out or plateau: how to understand your content ecosystem and what each platform is actually for, how to read your own analytics and identify what's working, how to build...

Hot isn't about your face. It's about presence — and presence is something you can actually learn. In this episode we go into the psychology and neuroscience behind what makes someone genuinely magnetic: the difference between presence and performance, why embodiment is a cognitive skill and not just a wellness concept, how your style communicates before you open your mouth, and why the pr...

Most people think a morning routine is about waking up earlier. It isn't. It's about what your mind processes first — and whether you chose that, or an algorithm did. Edmund Husserl, the philosopher who founded phenomenology, had a concept called intentionality: consciousness is never just on, it's always consciousness of something. There's no blank version of your mind. So the rea...

In this episode, hailo discusses the publication history of Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov, then discusses her thoughts on the book, her annotations, consciousness, surrealism, and more. Join our community to become hotter, smarter, and more intellectually confident at https://www.hotliterati.com/Check out our guided courses at https://www.hotliterati.com/coursesFollow hailo https:/...

hello! In this episode we're discussing the Alix Earle/Alex Cooper drama, the philosophy of celebrity culture, and the World Wide Web! Join our community at hotliterati.com ! I'd love to get to know you more. We also have Guided Journals, our book club, and so much more on our website.