Speaking Generally Stephen Hussey and George Taylor

George and Steve catch up before George heads on a road trip across the good old USA!

Topics include:

- Steve's new YouTube channel (check it out + subscribe!)
- Elena Ferrante's "Days of Abandonment"
- What to call fiction when it's based on real life
- Bo Burnham's Inside

A Guardian article recently claimed that bookish men are at a premium on dating sites. What does this mean for our bibliomaniac hosts?

Plus, Steve worries he's spreading himself too thin...

Steve takes a writing class, and we ask whether creative work is worth it if you don't think it will be successful.

It's Spring, and Steve just finished speaking on a virtual retreat.

In this episode, we talk:

- Tips on public speaking (and why it matters)
- Thoughts on millenial house buying vs. investing
- VR and the future of live events
- Understanding the Western mindset through the recent book "The Weirdest People In The World"

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Sometimes it takes art to reflect the deepest truths of our lives back to us.

And nowhere is this more true than the challenges of relationships.

Join us for a talk about favourite relationships in books and what we might dare to learn from them.

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Books mentioned:

Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Phillip K. Dick)

Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Normal People (Sally Rooney)

Northern Lights Trilogy (Phillip Pullman)

Our 30 days are up...so it's time to check the results.

Did we stick to our new habits? What have we learnt going forward into the rest of 2021?

Also...

George has also been crashing through EVERY Best Picture winning movie since 1950. Which are his top recommendations, and what are the great stinkers?

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