Jake and Phil discuss Philip Roth's 1961 essay "Writing American Fiction" and the Qohelet, also known as the Book of Ecclesiastes 

The Manifesto: 
Philip Roth, "Writing American Fiction" 
<a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/philip-roth/writing-american-fiction/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.commentary.org/articles/philip-roth/writing-american-fiction/</a>

The Qohelet 
<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&amp;version=KJV</a>

Episode 85: Zarathustra and Judge Holden

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.