"I don't date. I'm just a mad pun because all that I am," he says of his relationship with Suzanne Plaschett and Tippie-Hedern. "Lena Dunham is a product of exactly the same world that affluent art in a chamber world in Manhattan, OK? You want to see the decline, OK? There we're in the middle of right now." On Foucault: "He's nothing, OK? Nothing, OK? And the reason why I know he's nothing is because he was influenced by, you know, he pretends to be such a mastermind"
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.
Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video.
Other ways to connect