Libby Emmons: Theater, Transgender, and Transhuman
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Sponsor break and Lou's upcoming book
1:38 – Intro: Libby Emmons and what bookshelves say about you
4:52 – Reading Jim Jordan, John Adams, and one author at a time
7:03 – Willa Cather's Paul's Case
8:06 – MFA programs, Columbia, and City College
10:25 – Literary journals and the economics of short fiction
12:09 – Changing art forms and literary egos
16:12 – Too many books and the canon wars
17:31 – Will Shakespeare fade? Oscar Wilde and Beardsley
20:04 – Macbeth, Patrick Stewart, and bad Shakespeare
23:28 – A college King Lear
25:15 – Naked actors, grimy theaters, and one-woman shows
29:24 – Sleep No More and immersive theater
31:52 – Gatz and falling asleep at the theater
35:32 – Theater as an archaic art form for elites
37:16 – YouTube, Joe Rogan, and Covid messaging
39:15 – Falling asleep at dance and who belongs on stage
43:30 – How The Post Millennial started
46:00 – Activists targeting advertisers
48:00 – Canadian speech law and pronouns in reporting
52:00 – Trans inmates in women's prisons
55:24 – Sex vs. gender and the changing debate
57:46 – Transhumanism and the mind-body split
1:02:07 – Wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Libby Emmons of The Post Millennial joins Lou to talk about theater-geek stuff, how The Post Millennial started, and trans issues, both transgender and transhuman.
We also get into what bookshelves say about you, Willa Cather's Paul's Case, MFA programs and the economics of short fiction, whether Shakespeare will fade, Patrick Stewart's Macbeth and bad Shakespeare, naked actors and one-woman shows, Sleep No More and Gatz, theater as an archaic art form for elites, activists targeting advertisers, Canadian speech law and pronouns in reporting, trans inmates in women's prisons, and transhumanism and the mind-body split.