Henry Oliver is the author of the book "Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life" and prolific blogger on literature.
Episode transcript
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Timestamps
(0:00:00) Intro
(0:00:38) Late Bloomers
(0:07:28) Great Man theory of history
(0:16:14) The Common Reader
(0:20:56) Rear Window
(0:22:58) Literature vs film or music
(0:26:41) Mimesis
(0:30:07) Artistic themes
(0:38:11) Knausgaard, Bolano, Ferrante
(0:39:27) Misreading
(0:42:54) Harold Bloom
(0:45:47) Art and economic growth
(0:47:25) LLMs
(0:50:55) Hayek
(0:52:20) Keats
(0:54:35) Literature vs philosophy
(0:57:25) Morality
(0:59:11) Nepotism
(1:00:00) Shakespeare
(1:06:57) Henry’s output
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