Leigh Stein and Julius Taranto: Did Wokeness and Trump Kill Literary Satire?
Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis?
Today’s guests are two young novelists who are redefining satire in the 21st century. Leigh Stein is the author of Self Care, which is set at a women’s wellness startup where things go very wrong. Her next novel, If You’re Seeing This, It’s Meant for You, takes place at a social media hype house and comes out in August. Julius Taranto is the author of How I Won a Nobel Prize, which is set at a secretive university funded by a reclusive billionaire and staffed exclusively by faculty who have been canceled elsewhere. His reviews and essays have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere.
Reason‘s Nick Gillespie talks with them about the widely pronounced post-election vibe shift by which artists feel emboldened once again to slay sacred cows with impunity. And they explore whether contemporary markets for books, movies, plays, music, and ot
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