TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book a lot. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips . Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: http://muumuuhouse.com/bp.03feb2021.html . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/?hl=en ): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/artists-instagram-coronavirus.html

POD CONTENTS:

2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod

7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art

10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now

13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - Benjamin

15 min - “Write from the end of the world”

16 min - desperation vs self sabotage

19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book

21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically)

24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body

27 min - do it for the ones who need it

31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction

35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting

39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god”

42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write

45 min - is human connection possible

47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok

52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now

56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok

59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin

1 hr - to share or not to share

1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful

1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me”

1 hr 6 min - drugs

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Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.

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