Dan Cafaro, publisher of Atticus Books and the Atticus Review, joins the show to talk about making the transition from sportswriter to bookseller to book-blogger to publisher, building a writers’ community, the diversity challenge, and more! Give it a listen!
The Books We Talked About: Ross Benjamin
Ross Benjamin & I talked about a few books during our podcast about Festival Neue Literatur. Here’s a list of ’em:
- The Day My Wife Found a Husband – Sibylle Berg
- Delicious Foods: A Novel – James Hannaham
- Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael Lewis
- Hyperion – Hölderlin
- Hopscotch: A Novel – Julio Cortazar
- Sudden Death: A Novel – Alvaro Enrigue (tr. Natasha Wimmer)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel – Neil Gaiman
New Work from Past Guests: Sandy McClatchy, Maya Stein, Dmitry Samarov, Chester Brown, Ron Slate
JD McClatchy poem: Dirty Snow • Listen to my conversation with Sandy
Maya Stein co-launches The Tiny Book Show on Kickstarter • Listen to my conversation with Maya
Dmitry Samarov review in Chicago Reader: ‘Monster Roster’ confirms Chicago’s significance in midcentury American art • Listen to my conversations with Dmitry (2014, 2015)
Chester Brown: Publishers Weekly review of Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus • Listen to my conversation with Chester (& Nina Bunjevac)
Ron Slate: “on New Poetry by Ross Gay, Donna Stonecipher, and Lee Upton” • Listen to my conversation with Ron
The Books We Talked About: Christopher Kloeble
Christopher Kloeble & I talked about a few books during our podcast (I should’ve asked him which Stephen King books he glommed onto as a kid; my bad). Here’s a list of ’em:
- Almost Everything Very Fast – Christopher Kloeble
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
New Virtual Memories Show: Christopher Kloeble
It’s our first podcast as a Media Partner for the 7th annual Festival Neue Literatur (held Feb. 25-28, 2016 in New York)! German author Christopher Kloeble joins the show to talk about his first US publication, Almost Everything Very Fast (Graywolf Press)! We discuss the perils of translation, German sense of humor (the theme of FNL ’16 is “Seriously Funny”), becoming a Person of Indian Origin, the peculiarities of Bavarian pride, and transcending the limits of empathy in prose. Give it a listen!
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