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The Ezra Klein Show
The guest explained that his forthcoming November essay collection, The Sensualist, would explore how to pursue pleasure and enjoyment amid a bleak, hyperranked world.
Many of those essays will be collected in a new book coming out in November called The Sensualist. That name, The Sensualist, I think tells you something about what his project is, what he believes is...
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The guest explained that his forthcoming November essay collection, The Sensualist, would explore how to pursue pleasure and enjoyment amid a bleak, hyperranked world.
Many of those essays will be collected in a new book coming out in November called The Sensualist. That name, The Sensualist, I think tells you something about what his project is, what he believes is necessary to live well in a moment like this one.
I think this is like an interesting bridge to this book of essays you have coming up called The Sensualist. It feels to me that one of the arguments you've quietly been making and then making more loudly in your nonfiction is that it is a radical act to, in a bodily, physical way, just enjoy this life.