Episode 56: With Jeff Alessandrelli (On Writing about Selfhood, Living via Text, Shyness, Vulnerability and Storytelling)

Jonah Asks

Welcome back to Jonah Asks. This talk with Jeff Alessandrelli is wide-ranging and thought-provoking. Jeff's book And Yet is an experimental fiction novel full of quotations, philosophical ideas around shyness, desire and selfhood. The novel and the conversation both explore many aspects of modern life: *isolation vs connection; *therapy/mental health *living via text vs living in the present moment *vulnerability vs social conditioning/masculinity *creative ambition vs acceptance; *societal expectations vs individual truth. *talking vs self-consciousness *identity and performing the self Link to Jeff's book: https://pankmagazine.com/shop/preorder-yet-jeff-alessandrelli/ music samples: "Me, Myself and I" De La Soul "Saturday in the Park" Chicago Essay in The Atlantic on the sex recession, Dec 2018https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/ Spalding Gray on Charlie Rose (1997)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geKEoxpPh5Y&t Thank You For Listening and Sharing, Jonah