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Hey, this is Andrew Klaven talking to my son Spencer Klaven, the host of the Young

Heretics podcast about my new book The Truth and Beauty. This book is incredibly important

to me and I'm hoping I'll be able to convince you to pre-order it because that will let

the company, the publisher, Zander Van, know that people are interested in. It's subtitle

those How the Lives and Works of England's greatest poets point the way to a deeper understanding

of the words of Jesus. One of the reasons I want to talk to Spencer about it is because

he's one of the few people who's read it. I know. I feel very privileged. Honestly, this

is a special book. You should feel really proud of this book. I've read a lot of books

and I've read a lot of your books and I think even among your excellent corpus, this

is a particularly important book for our times. One of the things that I thought was especially

gripping that really spoke into this moment is this section in your book about women. It's

about, specifically it's about Mary Shelley. It's about Frankenstein, but you really show

how it's about so much more than that. And womanhood is such a crucial issue right now.

It almost is so crucial that we don't notice how constantly it's under assault, but all

these terrible language that we read all the time of menstruators and birthing persons,

this dehumanizing language, the reduction of women's importance in the home. You show

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