~video is 10:43
Notes on the video:
My essay collection: Controversial: The Substack Essays, Polemics 2022-2024 (buy here)
The bookstore I mentioned at the end was Pegasus Books in Berkeley (and the author lived in China after college)
Correction on Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, it was published in 1890, not “the early twentieth century.”
In an effort to embrace brevity, I cut out some important aspects to the plot, so please do read the synopsis on Amazon (click here)
~Screenshots from LAPVONA:
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