Hailo of "Hot Literati" - Between the Stacks

“Artists need to be outside, artists need to be with one another and in these situations where they can have faith and beauty in the world so that they can make stuff that pours that perspective back into the world.”

All the books mentioned by Hailo in the interview:

• “Cinderella Ate My Daughter” by Peggy Orenstein

• “The Gift” by Vladimir Nabokov

• “The Inner Child in Dreams” by Kathrin Asper

• “Love That Dog” by Sharon Creech

• “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen

• “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabokov

• “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin

• “Bonfire of the Humanities: Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss” by David Marc

• “The Anxious Generation” by Jon Haidt

• “iGen” by Jean Twenge

• “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri

• “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• “Stargirl” by Jerry Spinelli

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Favorite Substackers:

• Ananya

• Ingrid Norton

• Brendon Holder
  writes “LOOSEY”

• Bella Ve
  writes “nihilist femcel outpost”

  • Defines culture as “people like us doing things that we do.”

• Anderson II
  writes “METROPOLIA”

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