202 - Making Sense of Our Current Political Climate with Stephen Marche

About this episode

Stephen Marche discusses the current political climate and his literary works.

Stephen Marche is a novelist and essayist, and the author of, among other works, On Writing and Failure and The Next Civil War . He has written features and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Walrus and many others. He has collaborated with artificial intelligence on the first AI-generated novel reviewed in The New York Times, Death of an Author . His most recent novel, The Last Election , was co-written with Andrew Yang. @stephenmarche His website: https://www.stephenmarche.com/ His podcast: Gloves Off with Stephen Marche (https://shows.acast.com/gloves-off)

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Marcia Sirota

Guest: Stephen Marche

Topics covered

• politics
• literature
• artificial intelligence
• current events
• civil discourse

Keywords

• political climate
• Stephen Marche
• AI-generated novel
• The Last Election
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Walrus

Books & works: On Writing and Failure, The Next Civil War, Death of an Author, The Last Election

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