Lou Reed's Nephew

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December 2023

Lou Reed's Nephew's Author Gets a Book Deal
What happens now?
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October 2023

E40. Lou Reed's Nephew on Lou Reed
“That would be like Jesus actually having a son.”
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E39. Lou Reed's Nephew's Narrator Sells Out
I worked to live, or had at one point, and could not learn how to live to work. Not now. It was too late.
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E38. The Commencement Address of Lou Reed's Nephew
"Life is infuriating, the way it wrests appropriateness from us when inappropriateness is called for."
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E37. Lou Reed’s Nephew on Lou Reed’s Nephew’s Narrator’s Epic Pivot
"Though we rarely speak of it, technology is a mess. It’s riddled with mistakes, and these mistakes compound on one another daily, like the brain…
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E36. Lou Reed's Nephew's Narrator Sleeps In
How could I have been so foolish?
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E35. The Final Dream of Lou Reed’s Nephew’s Narrator
“I don’t want to play anymore,” I say. “I don’t want to guess. Just tell me. What is my card?
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E34. Antigone: The Last Recommendation Engine
“Can you think of something—a song or a movie—that, the time you first encountered it, filled up your consciousness entirely and made you say, this is…
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E33. Lou Reed's Nephew on Wisdom
‘Everything will work out in the end,’ is an ironclad, if misleading, promise to yourself.”
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E32. Lou Reed’s Nephew Gets an Invitation
I had no idea what he was talking about but was reluctant to reveal my lack of sophistication.
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E31. Lou Reed’s Nephew on Virtue
I had wondered, and worried, how Lou Reed’s Nephew would handle his newfound success. He was suddenly in great demand.
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