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Long Live the Literary Man! w/Matthew Sini
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Long Live the Literary Man! w/Matthew Sini

Episode 12 of the Chudstack Review

In this episode of The Chudstack Review, Matthew Sini and I talk about:

  • Is the decline of the literary man the result of active industry exclusion?

  • Are literary podcasts the new salons? Is that where the real male reading public has gone?

  • Have literary journals been captured by current-thing discourse?

  • Can fiction capture the zeitgeist without dating instantly?

  • Should we care that the reading public is shrinking?

  • Why are straight women so obsessed with gay male romance, and what does it reveal about the death of Eros?

  • Has the sanitisation of sexuality killed eroticism in contemporary culture?

  • Does social acceptance make it harder to write interesting gay fiction?

  • Does hedonism undermine creativity?

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