Podcast

The anti-nostalgia nostalgist

Melissa Maerz on Dazed and Confused, celebrity apologies, and a career in cultural criticism

Apr 1 • Rafael Frumkin

Diagnoses and Writing a Sense of Self with Jeannie Vanasco

Can psychiatric diagnoses blunt self-knowledge?

Mar 22 • Rafael Frumkin and Jeannie Vanasco

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Portrait of the artist as a young boyslut

Zachary Zane on Boyslut and sex positivity's 3rd wave

Mar 13 • Rafael Frumkin and Zachary Zane

Island of misfit men

Brian Benson on memoir, masculinity, and vulnerability

Feb 27 • Rafael Frumkin

Slippery characters

Helen de Bres on How to Be Multiple, memoir & philosophy

Feb 12 • Rafael Frumkin

Notes from the millennial underground

Luke Kennard on Black Bag

Jan 20 • Rafael Frumkin

Hot girl surveillance state

Margaux Eliot (aka Julia Fine) on Honeymoon Stage

Dec 21, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin and Julia Fine

Love in the time of tenure

Emily Adrian on Seduction Theory

Oct 24, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin

Sex, drugs & writing because you must

M.L. Rio on Hot Wax

Oct 13, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin and M. L. Rio

Writing and wanting

Jeannine Ouellette on creativity, vulnerability, and Writing in the Dark

Sep 22, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin and Jeannine Ouellette

A hype house is not a hype home

Leigh Stein on If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You

Sep 12, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin and Leigh Stein

Anyone can become Little Edie

Jeannie Vanasco on A Silent Treatment

Aug 19, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin

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