Shachtman discusses his 2011 work, The Life And Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, the iconoclast famed in his day as the Longshoreman philosopher who defined the term "True Believer" analyzing the similarities between the extreme right and the extreme left.

Poet Eileen Myles reads passages from and discusses her autobiographical novel, Inferno, a vivid and brilliant recreation of the gritty days in the Greenwich Village of the sixties, and the tempering through fire to forge her identity as a poet.