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23 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
“The most classic work of fiction of the last 20 years, I would say. You can think of it as a work of non-fiction in a sense.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 23 Dec 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Let’s move to fiction. You thought it was a stellar year for fiction, as you’ve previously mentioned. You mentioned Michel Houellebecq, Submission. That’s come up many times on CWT as well. The most classic work of fiction of the last 20 years, I would say. You can think of it as a work of non-fiction in a sense. It’s a work of philosophy. Not quite predictive. Not quite normative. A weird combination of them both. Everyone refers to it. It rewards rereads and it’s just incredible. It’s short for all that. There’s more to it than you think on the first read. I would just tell everyone that. You said in the post that you read it in German first because that was the first way you could get your hands on it.…
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