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What does it mean to be a writer in a post-Trump, post-Alt-Lit, social-media-driven, content-saturated era? Alex Manley and Guillaume Morissette talk about how writers can engage politically, the responsibilities and limitations literature has to "shift the culture", and if men can write complex women characters. Also discussed: negative reviews; Drake vs. Blake; videogames and the quest for meaning; progressive dating advice; moving to the woods and giving up on art. Alex Manley is a Montreal writer and graduate of Concordia's creative writing program. His debut poetry collection, We Are All Just Animals & Plants, was published by Metatron Press in 2016. Guillaume Morissette is the author of New Tab (Véhicule Press, 2014). If you can, adopt a senior dog from a rescue center near you. Glossary: The Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Link_(newspaper) Montreal Review of Books: http://mtlreviewofbooks.ca The Walrus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus Alt Lit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_literature Parc's Dollarama: A dollar store located on Parc Avenue in Montreal's Mile End/Outremont neighbourhood. Literary Mentions: Madeleine Holden Virginia Heffernan David Foster Wallace William Blake Chris Kraus Inside the Frozen Mammoth is created by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec and features writers published by our members. Interviews by Merriane Couture, technical production and editing by Jess Glavina. Anna Leventhal is the executive producer. Original music by Pamela Hart, cover art by Adam Waito. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting this project.