I Don't Like This Podcast

You Can See Everything, Wendy Williams, Christian Jankowski, and more - it's all in the title! More Jack the Modernist and autofiction thoughts, too. Nothing about the election sorry I recorded this on Monday

Short one this week! Why not. George Saunders's A Swim in the Pond in the Rain leans into millennial chungus, and Red Power Hour is a breath of fresh.

What is up with contemporary fiction?? That ol chestnut. We investigate via Marlon James’s podcast (which I like!), the tyranny of psychological realism in contemporary fiction, Jack the Modernist, Elizabeth Strout, and more more more

Anne Carson is the Hillary Clinton of literature, erudition v. wisdom, more Paul Verhoeven, love you!

I accidentally stopped recording halfway through, but I have stitched two audio files together. My power is limitless. This week I talk about gay American melodrama and why it's bad.

New York magazine's men's fashion issue, Andre Leon Talley, the latest, and the Popol Vuh is the book whose name I couldn't remember <3 U

Legacy media is the problem, not thinkfluencers, more Hogg, Forbidden Planet and Arthur Russell 

Thirst trapping is violence! Twitter vs. TikTok, and I rant about people being adults  again

New microphone!! Rejoice Gay guys should be freaks and abolish Interview magazine <3

Gay guys talking with laptops, Maddie’s Secret, Twitter discourse, food culture, Dogville, depravity of American culture  I say Fatal Attraction but mean Basic Instinct! 

The Sluts, professionalized creativity, enshittification of pop music, Shania Twain's In Your Arms, The Corrs' Breathless 

Puerto Rican boys drive Madonna crazy, she says. What's going on there? Did Kylie Minogue give us Brat? It was Mark Rylance who was in the production of Twelfth Night, and he was amazing. Our light summer schedule continues

Dune and Madonna I think I was thinking of Chris Cunningham and not Floria Sigismondi, and the line a link to MJ I think was a Janet line from their collab <3

Taylor Swift, more Michael Jackson, Björk, gas station sunglasses, office siren, gay guys being 38 going on 18, straight guy sinister energy, and so much more

I think a raindrop got on my mic midway through this, but it clears up so stay with us <3 We also cover Thuja occidentalis, Hagen Bach, and my angelllboys sighting

We're taking it to the street! Very hard to hear me, but perhaps it's atmospheric. We talk about menswear, bombing a school in Iran, Bound, being a gay barfly, and Joe Haldeman.

Native plants, Bowen Yang, fawnslop, gay people should be meaner, the Rush Limbaugh of f***, and jockstraps  I am uploading this days after I recorded it, sorry to keep Jack Heads waiting <3

Biden ghouls, Jazz (the dog), the Summer House men’s grooming, Catherine Liu, and the Below Deck chef’s accent

Little microphones, Gen Z, reality TV gays, Southern Hospitality, Madonna, and are mustaches glib? 

Sinister energy, Crash final verdicts, the Evelyn Waugh funny or literary syndrome, and some thoughts on what fiction needs to do, why not

This is a shorter episode about libslop, glibslop, the criticism boom, and not much more. <3

Fourth Wing, straight women, millennial irony, and Dodie Bellamy

Gay guys, the Lower East Side, persuasive fiction, Confessions, and testing a different mic, which I think I don't like

Straight people, Summer House, more Infinite Jest, and Douglas Martin

Toned down this week because we're weaning off caffeine: Artemis II, Crash, big books, and 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple