You mentioned your incident with Catherine de Nuev. And you also talked about that in 1995 in Playboy following her and also having 599 pictures of Elizabeth Taylor. Where do you draw the line between the obsession? And I mean the poly a kind of obsession, not the Roy Hinkley kind and just that respectful distance. Do you stifle creativity with respect for who this person is in their privacy? Well, I think I personally have never had this great desire necessarily to meet the figures that I most admire in the arts because I understand that what they represent on screen is an artificial construction.
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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