A BENCH IN EAST RIVER PARK — Solstice-eve sitdown with legendary poet and novelist Eileen Myles (b. 1949), author of Chelsea Girls (1994), Cool For You (2000), Inferno (2010), Afterglow (2017), Evolution (2018), For Now (2020), and other books.

Pod contents:

4 min - Marija Gimbutas.

9 min - Egyptian book of the dead / Afterglow (2017) / reincarnation.

11 min - Nonverbal communication.

15 min - Zola / writing about work.

19 min - “pathetic literature" / loser narrators.

24 min - readings.

30 min - the proletariat v. bourgeoisie now

34 min - east river park.

39 min - mistrust of “fiction.”

40 min - male v. Female lust.

46 min - orality / the beats / Kerouac.

49 min - Henry Miller.

54 min - rocks / grounding.

58 min - Transparent.

1 hr 7 min - the quiet place.

1 hr 9 min - the Northman.

1 hr 10 min - “the show about the show.”

1 hr 12 min- Valleyesque Fernando Flores.

1 hr 15 min - writing about the dead.

1 hr 18 min - Gerard de Nerval / ghosts.

http://1storyhaus.com/pod/69-eileen-myles