Phil is joined by the great novelist, short story writer and essayist Mary Gaitskill to discuss Gaitskill&#39;s essay &quot;The Trials of the Young&quot; in the most recent Liberties Journal, alongside the Nirvana songs &quot;Drain You&quot; and &quot;Moist Vagina.&quot; 

The Manifesto: 
Mary Gaitskill, &quot;The Trials of the Young &quot; 
<a href="https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-the-young" rel="nofollow">https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-the-young</a>

The Art: 
Nirvana, &quot;Drain You&quot; 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUpHxlJUNQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUpHxlJUNQ</a>

Nirvana, &quot;Moist Vagina&quot; 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT6sYzVN78" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT6sYzVN78</a>

Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate

Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments. Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio May you continue to be a person. Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.