NM Talkcore | Gideon Jacobs on Musk, Trump, and Fiction (2025)

Gideon Jacobs joins NM to discuss his latest piece for the LA Review of Books, “Player One and Main Character,” which explores the logic of power in a time when some of its key agents are no longer operating in base reality.

Gideon Jacobs as the character Father Bartholomew Mary, 2025. Image adapted from photo by Daniel Arnold for Document journal.

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