Ambition!

Are you fighting enough? Are you centering yourself? Are you making enough? Hitting the gym? Cracking the whip? Are you high status enough? Are all your enemies dead? Are you cool enough? Are you elite enough? Are you killing it, serving c**t, whipping ass, beating down doors, turning over desks, clasping your dreams by the balls and slaying, crushing, mogging, destroying, annihilating? This episode is about you and your ambition. We don’t like what we see. We think you need to step it up. In this episode: Morgan Bassichis, his one-man show Can I Be Frank, about Frank Maya and ambition, also Latronico’s Perfection, Georges Perec’s Things, Oulipo, tortured geniuses, Philip Roth, Gen Z and cringe, Honor Levy, writing with feeling, Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, Madeline Cash, Geese, envy, Deresiewicz and The Death of the Artist, careerism, haiku, Kobayashi Issa, masochism, Edward Bernays’s Propaganda, and Ted Hughes. If you missed our last episode, click here. Get full access to The Literarian Gazette at tliterarian.substack.com/subscribe