Harold Bloom was a great role model for people to soldier through adversity and rejection, she says. "My sexual persona was rejected by seven publishers and five agents," the writer adds. He always said, I gave him great nakas, which is sort of like a father to a daughter,. But he and I agree about Freud. We have a kind of Freudian, it's like a history"
Camille Paglia joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on the brilliance of Bowie, lamb vindaloo, her lifestyle of observation, why writers need real jobs, Star Wars, Harold Bloom, Amelia Earhart, Edmund Spenser, Brazil, why she is most definitely not a cultural conservative, and much more.
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