A place for conversations about literature, music and life......and digressions!
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In this episode, Cory reflected on their experience as an emerging non-fiction writer. We talked about their recent collection of personal essays, its inception and motivation, and the extraneous creative process. We looked at the different roles a writer assumes during the drafting and editing process, the intricate balance of the voice of a creat…
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We are sort of late to the game, but In this episode, Lily and I talked about the number one game of this age of quarantine: Animal Crossing! Lily shared about their experience in the game, and we discussed them in relation to a number of "driving forces" behind the game design. Also, we thought it might be interesting to draw a connection between …
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In this episode, Lily and I talked about American cartoonist Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic novel/memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which is a profoundly moving account of the author's childhood in Pennsylvania, her complicated relationship with her father Bruce, the latter's unexpected death, the author's sexual awakening, and the uncoveri…
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In this very first episode, we will start by asking the intriguing question of "What do we do with our excised body parts?" From there, we will talk about the relationship between the body and the perception of the self, addressing concepts such as unity, exteriority and interiority, normality, and etc. We might digress from time to time, but we ha…
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