The Nick Oliveri Show

Wyatt Froggy’s Book of Life Coming in 2027. A man lives a full life. Then someone mistakes his ending for a problem to solve. As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. My website: https://www.nickoliveribooks.com/ Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=17376...

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. My website: https://www.nickoliveribooks.com/ Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @The...

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. My website: https://www.nickoliveribooks.com/ Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @The...

Nick Oliveri returns for Season 3 with a reflection on discipline, creative intensity, and the long, strange process of building a body of work without waiting to be understood. As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid...

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

Nick Oliveri is a Ukrainian-born, bestselling novelist whose work explores the intersections of psychology, power, art, and human consequence. Known for his haunting lyricism and emotionally charged storytelling, Oliveri crafts narratives that challenge readers to question the systems around them and the truths within themselves. His books have been read by leaders in business, government, and aca...

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

In this episode, I examine the modern notion of genius and argue that the word has been so overused it has nearly lost its meaning. Genius is often mistaken for high intelligence, professional success, or the ability to function smoothly within systems. Just as often, it is treated as a distant historical curiosity, safely removed from the present and stripped of its disruptive force. I propose a...

In Part 2, I define what a real writer is without apology. A writer writes. Period. This episode moves past diagnosis and into responsibility, examining writing not as self expression or inspiration, but as obligation, discipline, and privilege. I address common counterarguments, including family obligations, trauma, illness, and addiction, with intellectual fairness, then dismantle them by lookin...

In Part 1 of this two-part episode, I dissect the modern notion of “writer’s block” and argue that the term itself functions as a linguistic alibi, one that falsely implies an external impediment to a fundamentally solitary act. Writing does not happen in crowds, and nothing outside the writer can prevent the sentence from being written. This episode separates real psychological and physical hards...

In this episode, I examine a cultural assumption that rarely gets challenged: the idea that independent bookstores are inherently more ethical, more supportive, and more virtuous than large retailers simply by virtue of being smaller. As an independent novelist who has handled every part of my own career — production, publishing, financing, marketing, and distribution — I reflect on my lived exper...

In this episode, I talk about one of my favorite books of all time: Voltaire’s Candide . I’ve read it half a dozen times, and it remains the only book that reliably makes me laugh during the darkest periods of my life. Written in the 18th century, Candide is a brutally funny, sharply written mirror of the suffering, chaos, optimism, disillusionment, and the absurdity of the world and the way it is...

In this bonus episode, I read one of the central poems from my book This Book Is Expensive : a raw, mythic meditation on endurance, self-exile, and the brutal necessity of moving forward even when the world behind you has rotted away. This piece traces the solitary traveler who walks through barren steppes, mockery, spiritual desolation, and pursuit, only to discover that meaning is not a destinat...

In Part 2, we move beneath the surface and explore the deeper origins of tropes , their roots in myth, psychology, and the human soul. Drawing from Jung, Joseph Campbell, and the collective unconscious, I examine how archetypes once served as living, spiritual structures of storytelling… and how corporations and cowardly trend-chasing authors flattened those archetypes into lifeless tropes. This e...

In Part 1 of this two-part episode, I dissect the modern obsession with writing fiction built entirely out of tropes: plots, characters, and emotional beats engineered from formula instead of imagination. This is a precise, dryly mocking, philosophical critique of how commercial fiction became predictable, repetitive, and creatively lifeless. I explore the rise of trope-driven storytelling, the cu...

In this episode, I explore the shrinking vocabularies of modern culture, our collective fear of complex language, and how the education system, digital short-form content, and cultural laziness have quietly eroded our ability to articulate thought. Through linguistic history, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, the evolution of English, slang, neologisms, and stories from my book tours, I argue that langu...

As always, sit back, relax, and enjoy. Read my bestselling novel, Monsters in My Mind : https://bit.ly/431rY3U Follow me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nick-Oliveri/author/B09NLBSHV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1737603747&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true X: @faultyharb Instagram: @nick0liveri Youtube: @TheNickOliveri

In this episode, I explore a paradox I’ve carried for years: why SpongeBob SquarePants and Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin from The Idiot are, at their psychological core, the same archetype. One is preserved for laughs; the other is destroyed for being good. Through the Seven Deadly Sins embedded in Bikini Bottom, the prophetic modernity of 19th-century Russia, and the ancient Greek dichotomy of com...