Head On Fire

2023 was great and terrible. There were technological marvels, horrible television, phenomenal movies, brilliant books, and more author drama than you ever thought possible. Come around the dumpster fire as Meg Elison and I build the year its funeral pyre.  Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ [https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/] Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod [https://twitter.com/headonfirepod] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod [https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod] Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod [https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod] Buy me a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod [https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod] Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 [https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524] YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod [https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod]

Bonnie Klopfer is an actress and comedian whose videos have been loved by millions of people around the world. She’s a stand up regular in LA and makes content online about finding the funny in mundane things, including a breakout series of shorts about product packaging. Find her here: https://linktr.ee/boobieklapper [https://linktr.ee/boobieklapper] Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ [https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/] Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod [https://twitter.com/headonfirepod] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod [https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod] Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod [https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod] Buy me a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod [https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod] Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 [https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524]

We are often told to ignore anger, to repress anger, that anger has no value in a polite society. Anger gets us in trouble. Anger removes our ability to think rationally. Anger is always bad all of the time and we should never, ever feel it. Or, at least, that's what we've been told. Some researchers wanted to test that theory, and turns out it might not be true.  Dr. Heather Lench is a professor specializing in affective science, personality processes, and social & personality psychology. She recently led a team of researchers in publishing a paper that tells us what anyone who has ever washed the dishes after a fight knows: anger might make us more productive and better at problem solving. We might actually get more accomplished if we do it out of spite.  Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ [https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/] Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod [https://twitter.com/headonfirepod] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod [https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod] Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod [https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod] Buy me a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod [https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod] Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 [https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524] YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod [https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod]

Hannah Robinson has been an editor at some of publishing’s biggest houses. HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster—where we met—and now Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette. She primarily works with non-fiction, which is a massive slice of the publishing pie that seems to get all but ignored on social media. We had a discussion about what the job of an editor is, what it isn’t, and whether they’re the scary gatekeepers aspiring authors make them out to be.  And because I couldn’t resist, we talk a bit about the making of The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft and why certain things did and didn’t make the cut.  Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ [https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/] Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod [https://twitter.com/headonfirepod] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod [https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod] Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod [https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod] Buy me a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod [https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod] Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 [https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524] YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod [https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod]

Jerry Saltz is one of the last real critics, the kind of critic that matters, whose voice is held in high esteem both by the art world and by the artists who make the world go round. He’s been the senior art critic for New York Magazine since 2006. He also happens to be one of, if not the most, widely read critics in the world—possibly outranked by his wife. He is a former long-haul truck driver, a failed artist, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, and he is my guest today. We had a far reaching discussion about what makes good art, the democratization of critique, and whether he really is just a professional hater. Follow Jerry on Instagram here [https://www.instagram.com/jerrysaltz/]. Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ [https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/] Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod [https://twitter.com/headonfirepod] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod [https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod] Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod [https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod] Buy me a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod [https://ko-fi.com/headonfirepod] Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 [https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524] YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod [https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod]