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Episode 60: I discuss the power of Jack Gilbert's poetry, lauding its condensed language and bold exploration of love, loss, and self-realization. I explain how reading him keeps me honest as an aspiring stylist. I then draw parallels to Brad Listi's book of autofiction, Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, for its similarly rigorous attempts at self-exploration. For being relentlessly honed, Gilbert’s poetry and Listi’s prose are readable and clear, despite dealing with profound and often elusive themes.

0:00 The Demands of Literary Style
2:37 The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
3:47 "Going There" by Jack Gilbert
5:15 Jack Gilbert and Poetic Ambition
7:22 Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad Listi
8:38 How to Think in Fiction
10:37 A Misconception about Readable Books

Books mentioned:
Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, by Brad Listi (IG Publishing, 2022)
The Great Fires, by Jack Gilbert (1994)
A Sport and a Pastime, by James Salter (1967)
Burning the Days, by James Salter (1997)

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