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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Percy Bysshe Shelley
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.comWelcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literatu...
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.comWelcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literatu...
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: William Wordsworth
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.comWelcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literatu...
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: William Blake
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The 2024 syllabus can be found here. This first episode in the...
Cosmic Poetics (ft. Emmalea Russo)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Please join me for a conversation with poet, teacher, astrologer, Tarot reader, Substacker, Dantologist, and soon-to-be-novelist Emmalea Russo. We dis...
MAJOR ARCANA: Part Two, Chapter 3
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Major Arcana is a serialized novel for paid subscribers. For more details, both about the novel and about subscriber amenities, please see the Preface...
Ep. 19. Streaming Consciousness
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, and A Room of One’s Own. The beauty of stream-of-consciousness narration. Woolf’s changing place in the canon. Wool...
Ep. 18. The Healing Punch
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
GPA current events. More on Oscar Wilde, anarcho-Catholicism, and the libertine and anti-libertine post-left. The arrest of Peter Navarro. The theory ...
Ep. 17. This Information (ft. Default Friend)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re joined by cultural commentator and internet historian Default Friend AKA Katherine Dee (read her newsletter and listen to her podcast on SubSt...
Ep. 16. Body Politic
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not asking Toni Morrison about race. Morrison: a Catholic writer, a Rust Belt writer, a lower-middle-class-to-professional-class writer. Abortion, Roe...
Ep. 15. Men of Twists and Turns
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Homer, The Odyssey. The sophistication of epic narrative. The Odyssey in education and academia. Homeric violence. Is the west founded on plunder and ...
Ep. 14. Pogue Mahone
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Reacting to the Vanity Fair article on the new right/post-left by James Pogue and the recent speech on “disinformation” by Barack Obama. Oscar Wil...
Ep. 13. Rough Magic
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Shakespeare’s birthday, a celebration of The Tempest, including discussions of “Caliban upon Setebos” by Robert Browning, A Tempest by Aimé...
Ep. 12. The Fire and the Rose
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
T. S. Eliot. The Waste Land. Our personal histories with Eliot. The pleasures of literary difficulty. Mythic method: the Holy Grail, the Fisher King, ...
Ep. 11. Shock Jocks
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A “fun” episode. The churning world of internet gossip. Justin Murphy and independent intellectual life. Cryptocurrency. Curtis Yarvin. Angelicism...
Ep. 10. Licentious
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Mann. Death in Venice. The greatness of modernist novellas. Art’s self-consciousness. Mann as autobiographical writer. Death in Venice as kin...
Ep. 9. The End of History
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Right and left Hegelians. 1989 and the global triumph of liberalism. Science and the satisfaction of creaturely desires. Gorbachev in the Pizza Hut. F...
Ep. 8. Underground Men
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Russia and Orientalism. Extremisms of Russian and American literature. The holy fool. 2+2=4. Romanticism, nihilism...
Ep. 7. Super Powers
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Watchmen. Favorite characters. Alan Moore as stylist. Superhero comics. Watchmen and Don Quixote. Form and genre: Understanding Comics, understanding ...
Ep. 6. Crossfire
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine. A political autobiography. Democracy and empire. Conviction and ambivalence. Ideological ferment: neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and MAGA. I...
Ep. 5. The Art of the Novel
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Henry James. “The Art of the Novel.” Romance vs. novel. Experience is everything. The necessity of cultural appropriation. Making love to the lang...
Ep. 4. Pragmatism Not Idealism
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
William James. Pragmatism vs. Rationalism. Metaphysics. Why it’s good to believe in God. Louis Menand. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Eugenics and compu...
Ep. 3. Performative
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
General hilarity. Sidney Morgenbesser, Mencius Moldbug, Judith Butler. Nietzsche. Limits of thought. Cheapness of paradox. How to write. Hannah Arendt...
Ep. 2. Gnostic & Anti-Gnostic
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Didion. A dirge. Gnosticism. William Blake. Catholicism. The CIA. Assorted literary gossip. Notes: my essays on William Blake, Elaine Pagels, an...
Ep. 1. Overture
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Literary mixes. The title explained. Georg Lukács. Are we leftists? How do we know each other? Don DeLillo, Iris Murdoch. Novels in general. Soundsc...