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On this episode, I speak with the poet David van den Berg on the glories of tromping through swamps as a child, the knifeblade dialectic of cynicism …
3 years, 1 month ago
572: Meng Jin, Eileen Myles, and Paul Tran interviewed by Chelsea Alice!
Back in November 2022, Chelsea Alice conducted three on-site interviews at Miami Book Fair. She discussed Self-Portrait with Ghost with Meng Jin, Pat…
3 years, 2 months ago
571: Mark Scroggins!
On this episode, I speak with the scholar and poet Mark Scroggins about poetry that simultaneously compels and eludes the reader with its strange mus…
3 years, 2 months ago
570: Kathleen Rooney!
I talk to Kathleen Rooney about finding the fun despite the end of The Great Enlightenment, the joys of mixing wit and earnestness in verse, the f…
3 years, 2 months ago
569: Lydia Millet interviewed by David James Poissant!
Lydia Millet and David James Poissant discuss geography, birds, earnestness, the characterization of children, the structure of plot and novels, and …
3 years, 2 months ago
568: A Conversation about Albert Camus's "The Guest" with Chelsea Alice
Chelsea Alice gave me homework, to read "The Guest" by Albert Camus, the result of which is this existentialist episode, or something like that.
3 years, 3 months ago
567: Brook Ziporyn!
This week, Brook Ziporyn and I discuss the complexities of interpreting the Daodejing, the humor of the book, and its applications to life philosophi…
3 years, 3 months ago
566: Ciera Horton McElroy
This week, I speak with Ciera Horton McElroy about following through with long form fiction and her extraordinary debut, Atomic Family.
3 years, 3 months ago
565: A Discussion of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition with Rachael Tillman!
Episode 565
This week, Rachael Tillman and I discuss William Gibson's not especially science fictiony, but post-modern systems thriller, Pattern Recognition
3 years, 3 months ago