Babak Lakghomi, author of Floating Notes (Tyrant, 2018) and South (Dundern, 2023), on working with the late great Giancarlo DiTrapano, David Markson, fragments, friction, literature as a revolutionary act, Proust, and autofiction.

1 min - on working with Gian / Tyrant

6 min - on South (Dundern Press)

7 min - on David Markson

8 min - fragments

9 min - archetypes / Edith Grossman

9.5 - Alvaro Mutis, Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (1995)

10 min - Nada (1945) by Carmen Laforet

14 min - writing as a revolutionary act (vs books as commodities)

17 min - what Literature is / Kafka

23 min - Solenoid by Mircia Cartarescu

26 min - the Courageous act of Literature

27 min - Proust / To the Lighthouse

29 min - Mary McCarthy

30 min - on autofiction