Steven Pressfield

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311 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Aug

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The Daily Stoic · Men Are Reading Less Fiction. That’s A Problem. | Steven Pressfield · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

telling the story of your struggle with drug addiction or, you know what I mean?

Yeah, really.

Or they're serial killers or whatever they are, you know?

I wonder what that's about.

I haven't really thought about that.

I mean, I guess it's the masculinity, quote-unquote, has been so, you know, whatever, deplatformed that it's almost embarrassing.

It's like...

For me, writing Gates of Fire and setting a story in ancient Greece with the Spartans, part of the reason I did that was so you could talk about honor with a straight face.

If you wrote a contemporary story and some character says something, well, we have to stand to get laughed out of the room.

But yet readers, particularly men and women too, want that.

So to put it in ancient characters' mouths, that kind of dialogue, and written in sort of an archaic format, it works.

Finally, you can say something like that, and then people are moved to tears.

It's like if you'd written a nonfiction book

Like if you'd written that nonfiction book, it would, when did you write Gates of Fire?

1998 or 6 or something like that?

I think it does, or books like that.

Yeah.

The idea of, like, when you said writing a book about honor, I mean, it's like I wouldn't even dream of it.

That would be lame.

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