Talking with the brilliant novelist, essayist and philosopher Mark de Silva ( @MarkdeSilva1 ) about his novel The Logos, about logos, about advertising, the metaphysics of writing fiction, the history of capitalism, and just about everything.Mark de Silva is the author of the novels Square Wave (2016) and The Logos (2022), as well as the essay collection Points of Attack (2020).  He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD).  He is a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and a research editor at the New York Times Magazine. 

Talking about fashion and philosophy with Gwenda-lin Grewal: Grewal's recently released book Fashion / Sense; ant death spirals; the quest for immortality; the Heraclitan church of athleisure; and much more...

Todays news: Sharon Stone's husband mauled by Komodo dragon; Florida man asphyxiates on regurgitated cockroaches after winning live cockroach-eating contest; tallest man in the world rescues dolphin; Michigan man pleads guilty to murdering and eating parts of Kevin Bacon; "Pedantic Literalist," by Marianne Moore; Prince Rupert's drops; Prince Rupert's dog believed to possess magical powers.  

Jorge Luis Borges, The Secret Miracle.  1943.Translated by Andrew Hurley.   Read by Benjamin Hale.

A Halloween episode: the Kraken, Michael Myers, the Terminator, killing mice, the banality of evil.

Don Juan, melancholy at the twilight of his life of pleasure, in a last quest to relive his memories imprisons himself in a nightmare.

Talking with Andrew Ricketts about basketball movies, William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, Conan the Destroyer, black American slang, the roots of the word woke.