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Walking and Talking with Henry
by Henry L Sullivan III
Welcome to Walking and Talking with Henry — a space where I talk with interesting people about writing, ideas, and life.There are a few conversations you’ll hear regularly here.The first is The Writer’s Room, a monthly conversation with a creative collective that includes Alison McBain, B. Marcus Walker, Debra K. Every, and me. We talk about the real challenges writers face—things like building a brand, book marketing, social media—and often wander into conversations about AI, time, and life in general.The second is my ongoing conversation with Kristine Madera, author of God In Drag. We go live every other Friday at 3 pm Eastern, streaming across Substack, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. One of us brings an idea, and we explore it together.And then there’s the walking.I bring a microphone with me while I walk and think through my writing. It’s part of my daily process, and a way to share ideas as they’re forming.If you enjoy thoughtful conversation—or want to be part of one—you’
Episodes
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Can People Tell The Difference Between Story and BS?
Major publishers are quietly using AI to write jacket copy, design covers, and pitch literary agents, mostly without telling readers or authors. Optimists like urbanist Richard Florida argue that AI will make human judgment, taste, and imagination more valuable, not less. But that argument…
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America’s Cultural Explosion (video version)
Why are Americans deconstructing faith, politics, and the American Dream? Three books reveal the hidden artifacts shaping our inner landscape. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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The sudden disruptions of inner landscapes all over the country
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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The Stories We Haven’t Told Yet
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Do Men Still Need Heroes?
Every superhero story needs a villain. Every rescue needs someone who couldn't save themselves. Every man who feels powerful has to feel powerful compared to somebody. What if that's the problem? After "Superman Replaces God," Kristine pushed back: reviving the hero archetype in a country already...
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Faithful To The Tribe
At a time when factions are calling for new parties and attempting to overturn the leadership within their own, Henry L. Sullivan III and Kristine Madera sit down to talk about the role of ideology in American life. When does conviction harden into tribal loyalty — and what happens to our grip on...
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What does virtue look like?
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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The Absurd Reality of Living In An Empire
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Is Claude judging me?
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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You know your novel would make a great movie.
Field Notes The working logbook of an author turning his novel into a TV miniseries with AI — no studio, no crew, no Hollywood. Each Field Note documents what I've learned converting the full-cast audiobook of Coliseum into film: the tools, the prompts, the costs, the failures, and the…
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You Can Turn Your Novel Into a Movie
Every author has heard the odds. Query hundreds of agents. Wait years. Hope someone in Hollywood notices. I stopped waiting. I’m converting the full-cast audiobook of my novel Coliseum — recorded with 11 professional voice actors — into a TV miniseries using AI video models: Seedance for action…
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What's the Purpose of Government?
The Fourth of July marks 250 years since a handful of colonists declared that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Two and a half centuries later — amid deep political division, eroding trust in institutions, and rapid technological upheaval — that founding...
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What’s the Purpose of Work?
Work has long been where many people get both money and meaning. But as AI, automation, rising costs, college debt, and a shrinking entry-level job market put pressure on traditional employment, we may need to ask a bigger question: what is work actually for? In this conversation, we explore work...
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Ethical Relocation
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Here’s the link for people to get the Next Wave Guide and the Ethical Digital Nomad GPT: https://kristinemadera.com/try-the-next-wave-destination-finder/ How to Use the Ethical Digital Nomad Destination...
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How Thought Experiments Can Shift Reality
In this conversation, we explore simulation theory as a provocative thought experiment that can reveal and collapse inherited beliefs, hidden authority structures, and the old scripts that invisibly shape what we think is possible. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with…
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After Multiple Boomerang Effects, What Comes Next?
Unpopular policies, major backlash, and a country in flux. People are angry, but we’re not all angry about the same things, and we don’t express our anger in the same ways. Many are wondering: What comes next? Join Henry Sullivan and Kristine Madera for a live, unfiltered conversation about our...
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The Virtue Machine
What do you call it when someone in power is so gleeful at the prospect of harming the people under his authority that he drapes a flag around his shoulders like a cape on his way to the vote? Or when, in discussing a threat made by the President of the United States, a TV personality asks the...
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YouTube Algorithm
I mention these channels in this video - muji ono - @jiaamalia20, Jia Survival skills - @Jiasurvival, putri sunda - @putrisunda1602, and Made Rusmi - @MadeRusmi_ - because I subscribe to them, and I believe they helped me to better understand the YouTube Algorithm. This is a public episode. If...
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A Beautiful Day In New York
Walking through New York on a beautiful day This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Is a Life Without Sex a Bad Thing — at Any Age?
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Writers Think They’re Failing. They’re Just Early.
Come walk with me for a few minutes. Today I’m talking about the part of the writing journey nobody warns you about — the waiting. The long stretches where nothing seems to be happening, and you start wondering if you’re wasting your time. But here’s the truth: the waiting is the work. Publishing...
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Does Vice Have An Advantage Over Virtue?
Henry and Kristine discuss the inner landscape at a time when gambling and God are both booming. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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If You Mention AI In Your Post, People Are More Likely To View It
Shameless plugs Coliseum – Henry L Sullivan III Deena Undone – Debra K Every Spirit of the Plain – B. Marcus Walker The New Empire – Alison McBain This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Is Alison Always Right?
One member of the Writer’s Room is a professional editor. When it comes to writing, is she always right? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Writer’s Walk Through Untermyer Gardens
An update regarding the Council of Nobles This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Why Stories Seed What’s Possible - For Better or Worse
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Author Versus AI’s Alison McBain Shares Her Experience at the National Summit on AI and Culture in Banff
The National Summit on AI and Culture in Banff This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Freedom From Religion
I don’t like flip-flops. I have a strongly held belief that flip-flops are not shoes. So many people have abandoned respectable, responsible choices like loafers, oxfords, and wedgies that we have a crisis in this country of loose, flip-flop-wearing behavior. It’s unseemly. It’s a radical…
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Our Rights by Virtue of Being Human
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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The finger pointing at America is not America
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Interview With Kristine Madera Author Of God In Drag
Henry L Sullivan III speaks with Kristine Madera, author of God In Drag. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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The Writer's Room: Alison McBain, B. Marcus Walker, Debra K Every, & Henry L Sullivan III
Four Writers Shoot The S**t About Conferences, Signing Books, Social Media, and Traveling Across Canada This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Author Interview: Gwen Tolios
Henry L. Sullivan III speaks with Gwen Tolios about: Marketing Books on TikTok, Adding links inside Instagram Reels, KDP sales reporting versus ACX, Findaway Voices (Spotify) versus Author’s Republic, Writing Queer Characters, Queer Characters in Television & Movies, and Promoting fiction on...
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The Writer's Room: Alison McBain, B. Marcus Walker, Debra K Every, & Henry L Sullivan III
Introducing The Writer's Room: Alison McBain, B. Marcus Walker, Debra K Every, & Henry L Sullivan III This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Henry L Sullivan III In Conversation With Nancy K. Napier
A conversation about culture and fiction. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit henrylsullivaniii.substack.com/subscribe
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Henry L Sullivan III In Conversation With Joni Marie Iraci
I recently signed up for a combination host/guest account on PodMatch. I will post the content from that account here (click this link for more information about the service: https://www.podmatch.com/?ref=1767139...). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Walking and Talking with Henry — a space where I talk with interesting people about writing, ideas, and life.There are a few conversations you’ll hear regularly here.The first is The Writer’s Room, a monthly conversation with a creative collective that includes Alison McBain, B. Marcus Walker, Debra K. Every, and me. We talk about the real challenges writers face—things like building a brand, book marketing, social media—and often wander into conversations about AI, time, and life in general.The second is my ongoing conversation with Kristine Madera, author of God In Drag. We go live every other Friday at 3 pm Eastern, streaming across Substack, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. One of us brings an idea, and we explore it together.And then there’s the walking.I bring a microphone with me while I walk and think through my writing. It’s part of my daily process, and a way to share ideas as they’re forming.If you enjoy thoughtful conversation—or want to be part of one—you’
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Welcome to Walking and Talking with Henry — a space where I talk with interesting people about writing, ideas, and life.There are a few conversations you’ll hear regularly here.The first is The Writer’s Room, a monthly conversation with a creative collective that includes Alison McBain, B. Marcus...
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