Marissa Zappas is a perfumer, scent designer, and poet based in New York City. Her approach to perfumery merges her background in anthropology with her admiration for avant-garde perfumes of the early twentieth century. Her fragrances are often personal and she is known for her collaborations with New York City artists. Her ethereal and deeply nostalgic perfumes blend the fantasy and the real with the gothic and the modern. Zappas believes creating and wearing perfume is a way of invoking future (as well as present and past) selves.

On June 21st 2020 allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Dota 2 commentator and Evil Geniuses streamer Grant “GrandGrant” Harris. Initially he had not been named in the comments made by a Twitter user but then later was specifically outed as someone who had been sexually aggressive towards someone during their attendance at an event. After the allegations gained traction across social media Harris apologised to the victim but then further allegations were made.

Before today’s episode guide a quick word from our continuity announcer. I have decided we should all celebrate the wonderful world of Murder, She Wrote to the MAX with a special day dedicated to the show. I hereby announce International Murder, She Wrote Day, which will happen on the anniversary of the day the show was first televised here in the UK—19th May 1985 - every year from now on, forever!

Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher. Actually he’s more like a modern Renaissance man: a self-taught auto-mechanic and one-time custom motorcycle shop owner, a repentant former D.C. think tanker, a best-selling author with an undergraduate education in physics and a University of Chicago Ph.D. in ancient political thought, and now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. But to me he’s most remarkable for being one of the very small group of people I’d favorably describe as genuine contemporary philosophers, given how his work strives not only to make real strides in understanding the world as it is, but also – in the tradition of the true greats of the ancient world – to suggest a concrete way to live in that world.

Hello, friends: I hope this finds you well. First of all, a hearty welcome to new subscribers—particularly those who arrived by way of We Can Do Hard Things, the podcast hosted by Glennon & Amanda Doyle and Abby Wambach, on which I’m thrilled to say I recently was a guest. (You can listen to the entire conversation here and here — it was a double episode!) I’m also thrilled to see that Substack’s algorithm has chosen to randomly feature this specific frame from this video clip—I had nothing to do with this, but wow: delight!