With the backlash of AI-produced work, it's time of artists to get back to the work, to double-down our bets on humanity. Tonight, we also look at how a novel like Gemma Files' Experimental Film could only have been produced by a human author.

Steinbeck’s daily journal while writing The Grapes of Wrath reveals the private war behind a public masterpiece. We explore his doubts, his discarded novel, and the lonely integrity required to create something honest—lessons for any creator facing the blank page.

Deconstructing the metafictional novel. In tonight's episode, we'll talk about the publishing history and struggle of producing this kind of art form.

The Demise of Nano-Wri-Mo took the world of marathon writers by surprise. Whatever happened to this communal writing experiment? Does coming together as a writing community, focused on a singular goal of creative expression lead to collective mediocre output? In tonight's episode we look into whether we can come together again in some different format but with the same intent and produce meaningful manuscripts.

Is American fiction falling in a downward spiral or are we at the cusp of something new?

In this episode I try to answer the old question: Should we write by the playbook? Have MFA writing programs degraded the quality of the modern contemporary American novel?

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Featuring Mary Shelly’s prescient novel and its relevance today, tonight's episode makes some connections between present artistic ennui and gothic angst.

Tonight, we're talking about one of the ultimate outsiders. A guy who spent most of his life in the shadows, writing about things so big and so terrifying they made humanity look like an afterthought. His name was H.P. Lovecraft.