Episode 07: Erin Lyndal Martin

Writer Erin Lyndal Martin joins the show to inform us that Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel, but only after we wondered if Joe Rogan could do it. Other topics include whether men should read more literature, which we think Yes! They should, and whether men doing so would make the world a better place, which we think is debatable. Also, what to do about books that are capital-I Important but maybe not so great?

Some of Erin’s recent work includes “If Sylvia Plath wrote ‘Wild Geese’ ” in Electric Literature and “Carillon” in Maudlin House. Visit her at erinlyndalmartin.com.

Works Cited this episode:

“After the Election,” Sarah Messer
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Molly, Blake Butler
Ulysses, James Joyce
Boring Girls, Sara Taylor
Don Quixote, Kathy Acker
Great Expectations, Kathy Acker
“The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone,” David J. Morris
“The Promise of American Poetry” by Bob Hicok
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
James Joyce’s letters to his wife
Joe Rogan Experience #887: James Hetfield
Joe Rogan Experience #1788: Mr. Beast
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin [sic] Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Zabibah and the King by Anonymous (attributed to Saddam Hussein)
A Message to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee