Coffee With Hitler: Writing Poetry and Novels with Steff and Autumn - Video

Steff is a poet and Autumn is a novelist. We talk about the writing economy, grad school for poetry, canceling yourself, how Autumn almost won the Passage Prize for right-wing fiction, how to stay free inside the institutions, how Autumn won Steff's heart with a meme about Hitler, how to think about success as a writer today, whether Curtis Yarvin's poetry is good, and Steff's call for suitors (DMs open).

Steff
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Autumn Christian
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✦ Autumn's novels: https://www.amazon.com/Autumn-Christian/e/B006QJ5USQ

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0:00 Intro
1:23 Autumn's literary work & self-cancellation
7:35 Steff's poetic work, grad school experience, & online journey
13:15 Independent vs institutional writing & the distribution of power
18:27 Is Twitter a serious platform for writers?
24:04 How to think about success as a writer today
25:48 The Substack phenomenon
29:32 The hottest underground sh*t right now
32:27 Dissecting the poetry of Curtis Yarvin
35:32 "Hypnosis poetry" & protecting against polyamorous perverts
39:33 The cultural stagnation of the alternative writing scene
42:15 Outsider lit, pathological writing, & anonymity vs face-faggotry
49:00 How Autumn won Steff's heart with a meme about Hitler
51:10 Buc-ee's nationalism
52:23 Almost winning the Passage Prize for right-wing fiction
59:39 How to stay free inside academic institutions
1:08:46 Biggest mistakes as a writer
1:10:59 Steff's dating-advert poem & her call for suitors
1:14:56 Favorite writer/poet?
1:16:29 Finding Steff & Autumn, & their work
1:16:51 'After the Singularity,' a poem by Steff