Lethal Minds Journal & The Literature of War Foundation
39 episodes
2 weeks ago
Writer and Quote Slinger Michael Jerome Plunkett sits down with various authors to discuss literature and all the ways it can shape our identity. War, in its simplest definition, is merely a struggle between opposing forces for a particular end. The LitWar podcast explores this notion and seeks the elusive emotional truth in all literature. Guests include Elliot Ackerman, Steven Pressfield, Phil Klay, and many more.
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Writer and Quote Slinger Michael Jerome Plunkett sits down with various authors to discuss literature and all the ways it can shape our identity. War, in its simplest definition, is merely a struggle between opposing forces for a particular end. The LitWar podcast explores this notion and seeks the elusive emotional truth in all literature. Guests include Elliot Ackerman, Steven Pressfield, Phil Klay, and many more.
Brandon Taylor (author of Real Life, Filthy Animals, and the acclaimed new novel Minor Black Figures) joins host Michael Jerome Plunkett on the LitWar Podcast by Lethal Minds Journal.In this conversation, Brandon reflects on the creative pivot that led him to abandon years of work and begin anew in a Paris hotel room with the novel he truly wanted to write. We talk about Wyeth, the young painter at the heart of Minor Black Figures, and how the book became both a meditation on art and politics in contemporary America and an exploration of individuality, cynicism, and belief.From the quiet intimacy of art restoration to the noise of online discourse, Brandon speaks candidly about millennial disillusionment, the commodification of the self, and the role of fiction in reclaiming life from abstraction. It’s a deeply thoughtful, funny, and searching conversation with one of today’s sharpest literary minds.
LitWar Podcast
Writer and Quote Slinger Michael Jerome Plunkett sits down with various authors to discuss literature and all the ways it can shape our identity. War, in its simplest definition, is merely a struggle between opposing forces for a particular end. The LitWar podcast explores this notion and seeks the elusive emotional truth in all literature. Guests include Elliot Ackerman, Steven Pressfield, Phil Klay, and many more.
