and here's me in colloquy with Stylus editor Todd Burns, part of their Stycast podcast series, a broad-ranging discussion taking in the Gaza Strip evacuations, the corruption scandal engulfing Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the new Salman Rushdie novel Shalimar the Clown, Jim Jarmusch's latest movie Broken Flowers, and the approaching series finale of Six Feet Under.