Here's Episode 31, "Paige Lewis and Posthumous Crime Novel 'Backwater'". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's Episode 30, "George Pelecanos and 'The Odyssey'". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's Episode 29: "Mike Vago Talks Books as Movies". (@mikevago.bsky.social) www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's Episode 28 "The Maltese Falcon". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

T.C. Boyle talks with us about point of view and narrative structure.

Here's Episode 27: "T.C. Boyle and the Black Eyed Peas". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

If Daniel Kraus himself says it's not a gimmick, then it's not a gimmick.

Daniel Kraus@danielkraus.com · 3mo ago

Great discussion! It’s not a gimmick though. Not a gimmick!

Here's Episode 26: "The Summer of Dashiell Hammett Begins!" www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Novelist Willy Vlautin talks with us about the capacity for fiction to teach readers how to empathize.

Here's Episode 25 "Willy Vlautin and Dashiell Hammett". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's Episode 24: "Deals with the Devil (with Ed Simon) and Firing Holden Caulfield". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

This great article on why Claude is not conscious, by author Ted Chiang, raises this point covered by Paul Carr’s novel The Confessions: that when we outsource decision making and even ethical reasoning to chatbots, we atrophy our moral reasoning. #booksky www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Paul is so quotable, we had a hard time narrowing down the highlights of his episodes. Here's one them.

In Alice Martin's new novel 'Westward Women', American women begin feeling an uncontrollable urge to leave their jobs and families to migrate west. In our interview, Martin likens this urge to the cultural exhaustion felt by many in America in the 1970s, when the idealism of the 60s had worn off.

Here's "Episode 23: Alice Martin, and Is Exposition Gendered?" www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here Mason talks about reading the wrong translation of 'Crime and Punishment' in a class as an undergrad.

In this clip, Nina McConigley (@ninamcconigley.bsky.social) talks about her new book 'How To Commit a Post-Colonial Murder' and the overlap between environmental extraction and colonial exploitation.

Here's "Episode 22: Nina McConigley" (@ninamcconigley.bsky.social). www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Author Jared Lemus tells us the harrowing real-life story of being robbed in Guatemala, which provided the basis for his short story "Saint Dismas", appearing in his award-winning collection 'Guatemalan Rhapsody'.

Here's "Episode 21: Jared Lemus". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's John Sayles talking about his new book 'Crucible,' and how labor unions break down cultural barriers and challenge despots.

John Sayles on Labor, Politics, and Money: the acclaimed Oscar-nominated independent filmmaker and novelist sits down with Third Person Limited at the Pittsburgh Review of Books. @thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social @nathanpensky.bsky.social @stockstill.bsky.social pghrev.com/john-sayles-...

Here's "Episode 20: John Sayles". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's Episode 19 "Rejection is Good! And you never read alone". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

“A strange and hostile energy surrounds René Descartes in the scholarship of early modern English literature.” Read "At the Cartesian Theater" by Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social of @thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social. pghrev.com/at-the-carte...

At the Cartesian Theater - Pittsburgh Review of Books

A strange and hostile energy surrounds René Descartes in the scholarship of early modern English literature. Despite his status as one of the most important

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Tom Ryan discusses how he is unapologetic about dismantling the time-honored teen sleuth mythology in his new book, 'We Had a Hunch'.

Here's Episode 18: "Tom Ryan, and Authors Being Too Literal". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Here's Ep. 17: "Interpretation and 'Ecstasy'". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

I'm happy to announce that my first academic book 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage' is now available for pre-order! (For a 30% discount, feel free to use the discount code NEW30.) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cartesi...

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds

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Here's our most recent column for the Pittsburgh Review of Books, where Nathan reviews Jonathan Miles's new novel, 'Eradication'. pghrev.com/competing-na...

Competing Natures in Jonathan Miles’s Eradication - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Jonathan Miles’s new short novel Eradication: A Fable could be described by way of any number of genres. It resides comfortably at the nexus of

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Here we talk about how annoying the Voyager "Golden Record" would be if released today.