The Unspeakable Podcast

Congratulations, You’re a Failure! Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer

Mar 20, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
On Writing and Failure
03:25 • 3min
3
Is There a Difference Between Success and Failure?
06:04 • 2min
4
Making Meaning
07:47 • 2min
5
The Transition From Patronage to Professionality in the 18th Century
09:49 • 2min
6
Samuel Johnson - Is That a Backhanded Compliment?
11:53 • 2min
7
What's the Hardest Story of Your Life?
13:57 • 3min
8
Is That Your Career?
16:46 • 3min
9
Podcast Series - How to Interview People for Audio?
19:44 • 2min
10
Terry Gross - I'm Like, I Want to Sing Like Pomerati
21:16 • 2min
11
Is Audio the Best Medium for Podcasts?
22:46 • 3min
12
Can You Just Pull Out a Clip of Barry Weiss?
25:35 • 3min
13
Writing for the Phone
29:04 • 2min
14
Do You Have a Sub Stack?
30:35 • 2min
15
Sub Stacks
32:38 • 4min
16
What Happened to Magazine Writing?
36:52 • 2min
17
Writing for the Phone
39:03 • 2min
18
The Suicide Number Was Just Poets
41:01 • 2min
19
How to Stay Sane When You're a Writer
42:40 • 2min
20
Is Mental Illness Helping With Creative Writing?
45:08 • 2min
21
David Foster Wallace - Is He a Celebrity?
47:09 • 2min
22
David Foster Wallace Essay on the iPhone
48:41 • 2min
23
The Real J.T. Leroy
50:31 • 2min
24
Is There a Culture War?
52:14 • 5min
25
Is Every Live View From the Inside a Series of Destroys?
56:58 • 3min
26
You Write at This Moment, I Have No Idea if I'm Successful or Not
01:00:00 • 2min
27
What's the Biggest Failure in Your Life?
01:02:00 • 2min
28
Is There a Door You Keep Hurling Yourself Against?
01:03:52 • 2min
29
Are You Not Your American?
01:05:53 • 2min
30
I Didn't Get a Job at an Advertising Agency in Lincoln, Nebraska.
01:07:25 • 2min
31
The Next Civil War by Steven Marsh
01:09:11 • 3min