"I think that's a really good idea for writers or for it is to have a job where you're dealing with constiprestrations and problems," he says. "This thing of withdrawing from the world to be a writer, I think, is a terrible mistake." He adds: "My whole life, I'm constantly jotting things down, constantly ... Just jot, jot,Jot, Jot,. And everything is on all the time, what on?"
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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