"I'm a school marm. That's all I am," Marnie says of her life in New York City. "People, they want success and they want material advantages ... And they don't, it's really, being a writer is just scutt work." The best thing Susan Sontag did was write an essay about horror films from the 1950s that she thought if you only stayed like that, you're kind of unpretentious with actual materials.
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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