The boys are joined by notable (notorious?) Vanity Fair contributor, Substack writer, and podcast veteran Vincenzo Barney for an exuberant conversation on Saul Bellow's masterpiece, Humboldt's Gift. We also talk about the pantheon of high stylists (Nabokov, Amis, Updike), the decline of said pantheon, the fallen world of the not past, what kind of light fixtures David Foster Wallace wrote under, MFAs (again!), and much much more.

Vincenzo can be found here:

https://x.com/BarneysRubble0

https://barneysrubble.substack.com

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