All Episodes
Hot Literati — 120 episodes
Can you turn a Community into a Business? with Laurel Touby
Why "Just Plan Your Future" Advice Never Works (And What Actually Does)
117. Fyodor Dostoevsky
116. Why You Should have a Morning and Evening Routine
115. How to Reclaim Your Attention
114. How to Date
113. How to Become Yourself
112. How to be a Content Creator
111. How to be Hotter
Why You Should Have a Morning/Evening Routine
110. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
109. In Defense of Alex Cooper
108. Sula by Toni Morrison
107. The Entropy of Beauty
106. Stop Competing and Start Cheering People On
105. How to Stop Dating People who Suck
104. What Your Commute Did to Your Ambition
103. Explaining Taxes, but Hot
102. Brain Rot is Not Cute
101. Dating Older Men and the Millennial Novel
100. Why Some People Are Magnetic
99. How the Internet Changed Everything for Creatives (And What to Do About It)
98. The Case for Not Being Your Job
97. What if it works out?
96. A Pep talk to myself about Hot Literati hehe
95. The Difference Between Consuming and Thinking
94. The Psychology of why Some People are More Interesting
93. How to get out of a Reading Slump
92. Stop Identifying with Everything You Read
91. Read, Write, Own by Chris Dixon
90. Is Your Media Diet Making You Ugly?
89. How Reading Dostoevsky Can Make You Hotter
88. Dating in London
87. Moby Dick, or The Whale
86. Althea Aguel on Princeton, Music, and Technology
85. How to Choose a Career Path
84. All the books hailo read in 2025
83. Dance, Race, & Technology with Kaylin Williams
82. Thinking Fast and Slow
81. The Book of Genesis
80. My Five Year Plan
79. How I Figured it Out
78. Madison Cunningham on Ace, Art, Food, & more
77. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
76. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
75. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein
74. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
73. Art, the American Dream, and Pageantry
72. Ennui, God, and Dorian Gray
71. Performance, Gothic Writing, and Experimentation with Leigh Stein
70. Women in Dostoevsky's Work
69. Connecting to God and Making Art
68. Listen to this if you don't want to go into banking
67. We should all be reading (more) fiction
66. You aren't miserable, you just need to slow down
65. This book changed the way my Mind Works
64. Love, America, Friendship, and more
63. Didion, Babitz, and the "Novel" with Lili Anolik
62. Don't think poor // How are the Chickens?
61. Rachel Yoder on Tradwives, Performance, and "What is Art?"
60. How can men Heal from Breakups?
59. Help Hot Literati Save America
58. Dostoevsky, America, and God
57. The Spirituality of Making Music
56. Media before Mass Media
55. Princess Babygirl
55. Age, Femininity, and French Culture
54. Be the love you're looking for
52. How to Flirt with Yourself
51. Did Balzac have an Eating Disorder?
50. On the Transience of being the "Fun One"
49. Jonathan Haidt: The Scholar According 2 Hot Literati
48. Be still my tin heart!
47. Is Journaling Art?
46. Real Writers Party ( by Anderson II)
45. As told by the Interns: (re)Cognition Summer
44. On The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
43. What, why Art, & my 1st Publicly Available Piece of Fiction
42. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Clown
41. Literary, but Hardcore
40. Talking to my Ex about Dostoevsky Nietzsche, and God
39. To be Human is to Try
38. Stevie from Laams on "The More Ya Know"
37. A man's thoughts on Sex and the City S1EP1
36. Is your Personal Brand a Prison?
35. Stop sending me ARC copies
34. Who am I if You want Me?
33. Stop Looking for Artistic Validation
32. Aren't we all Alice (by Victoria)
31. How to Talk about Art
30. Followers, Subscribers, Lovers, Friends
29. "Celebrity" is Devolving (& bad for art)
28. A Psychological Guide to Dating (men) as Women
27. Loneliness, Finding Yourself, & Nin (again)
26. On Dating, Dissociation, & Anais Nin
25. The Paradox of Social Media Activism
24. My favorite book, the human condition, and math
23. Collective Unconscious + Healing
22. Internet Malice/Faulkner's Coffin
21. Using books to combat depression and monotony
20. Of course we're F*cking Anxious (social media and Gen Z)
19. Justice for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
18. Feminine Insanity, Marriage, & Kate Chopin
17. I'm never 100% I'm not a Robot
16. Why The Bell Jar is so relatable (except for the racist parts)
15. The reason I didn't dye my hair post-breakup
14. How to Live a Real Life
13. A little Chocolate Before the Big Sleep
12. How Faulkner & Babitz got me through a breakup
11. James Baldwin and The Fire This Time
11. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Sad Girls, and Gen Z
10. My Eating Disorder and the book that Helped my Recovery
8. Do I have Girl Interrupted Syndrome?
7. Vonnegut & the meaning(s) of life
6. Death to the perfect woman
5. We shouldn't have to earn love
4. 20 BOOKS in 2022 (& which ones you should read)
3. How Dostoevsky got me out of a cult
2. Being a (GIRLY) girl sucks
1. Why I Read Books