DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight.

Buy Imaginary Museums: https://softskull.com/dd-product/imaginary-museums/

POD CONTENTS

3 min - pod start

4 min - small rooms big rooms card rooms basements

11 min - on “Winners” - https://magazine.nytyrant.com/winners/

14 min - on how life in Slovakia vs. US

19 min - “Field Notes” / Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch

21 min - Krasznahorkai

24 min - on the traditions Nicolette partaking in

25 min - The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti

27 min - Intimate Lighting, dir. Ivan Passer

28 min - on making art in communism

31 min - experience working with Soft Skull

33 min - on how these stories written

36 min - me repeatedly belaboring “the Nature”

37 min - Thomas Tallis / Abba

39 min - on what Nicolette working on now / Marta Becket

41 min - solitude vs. sharing. Kierkegaard definition of a saint: “to will the one thing”

42 min - subsequent books as answers to questions posed in previous ones

44 min - female eels

47 min - on Waldorf

55 min - Rings of Saturn by Sebald

57 min - mycology

– Sean Thor Conroe, http://1storyhaus.com