We talk to Ryan William Lackey about his piece, “Finding a Way In: On Michelle Zauner and the Cultural History of Infinite Jest’s Forewords.” DFW, Japanese Breakfast, GTA, the foreword-to-the-reissue-industrial complex, sports, etc.

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Ryan Lackey is a writer, critic, and PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. He’s also a founding editor of Miscellany, a biannual journal of writing and art. His work has appeared in Post45 Contemporaries, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, Full Stop, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

We talk with J. Arthur Boyle about his piece, “The Artist’s Self Interest: On Capitalist Fiction.” Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.

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Joined by special guest, fellow editor Alana Pockros, we talk with Emmeline Clein about her piece, “Recipes, Rumors, and Reminiscence: A Literary Cookbook Gift Guide.” “We talk about opulence, decadence, intransigence, dinner parties, the list as form, stealing husbands, anti-fascist pasta, Italian futurism, what Alice Toklas ate during before and after the war, considerations of oysters, and Salvador Dali.” Emmeline’s book “Dead Weight,” a cultural, political, and personal history of disordered eating, comes out in late February from Knopf. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.

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We talk with Chapman Caddell about his piece “View from the Couch: Success, “The Topeka School,” and “A Fan’s Notes.” Fiction-criticism, criticism-fiction, a loser’s guide to the future of contemporary literature, the careerist novel, “36 on the ACT-core” prose, Henry James in Philly, literary criticism in Argentina, and a young Ben Lerner in the grocery store.

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Pieces or Works Mentioned:

“The Pound Era” by Hugh Kenner (University of California Press, 1971) (PDF easily available online)

“A Golden Age” by Ryan Ruby (article published by Vinduet, April 2023) (https://www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/a-golden-age-ryan-ruby-on-literary-criticism-and-the-internet/)

“The Golden Age of the Working Critic”, American Vandal Podcast (Criticism LTD series, hosted by Matt Seybold) (https://marktwainstudies.com/goldenage/)

We didn’t specifically talk about this piece, but I’d never heard of Piglia before so this is worth sharing. “Ricardo Piglia’s Prescient Conspiracies” (Article published by the New Yorker in 2017) (https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/ricardo-piglias-prescient-conspiracies)

“Jock Itch: Toxic Fandom in the Novels of Frederick Exley and Chris Bachelder” by Mina Tavakoli (Article published by Bookforum, July 2022) (https://www.bookforum.com/fiction/toxic-fandom-in-the-novels-of-frederick-exley-and-chris-bachelder-25002)

We talk with Rafaela Bassili about her piece “Andy Warhol Has Been Shot: On Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special". It Girls, Invisible yet omnipresent Warhol, Edie Sedgwick (tormenter and tormented), hierarchies of attention-value, fleeing the suburbs for the big city, the difficulty of being cool, avoiding writing preachy, morally simplistic novels, and proto-only fans.

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We talk with Philip Metres about his upcoming award winning book of translated poems: “Ochre and Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky.” Russian Literature as homeland, (self-)imposed exile, close readings, mothers, slant rhyme being cooler than direct end rhyme, retweeting Walter Benjamin, the deficit model of translation, and the music of language.

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We talk with Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo about her piece “Still, Observing: On Christine Kwon’s A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue”. Labor’s relation to and intertwinement with domestic life, femininity, and craft; upper-level seminar close reading mode, good parties and bad parties, bathtubs, Korean and Korean-American poetry, name-checking your influences, pay-to-play poetry prize chapbook publishing, and survival.

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Index for Continuance Podcast by CSU Poetry Center(referenced): http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/index-for-continuance-podcast

We talk with Guillermo Rebollo Gil about his piece “Deaths Plural: On Pro Wrestling and Poetry.” Performance, grief, Roland Barthes, the stone cold stunners of Steve Austin, high brow snobbery, low brow elevation, bros, drag, Puerto Rico, and nostalgia. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.

*Trigger Warning: Extended discussion about Suicide.* We talk with Micah Cash about his review of Osamu Dazai’s “Flowers of Buffoonery.” Convalescence, the “I” novel, Western influence on Japanese mores and aesthetic practices, “the fellas” novel, the hard drug “leftist thought,” little mag scenes in Japan, and the emperor is dead, long live the emperor. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.

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We talk with Will Harrison about his review of McKenzie Wark’s “Raving.” Not selling out the scene, Detroit techno, Chicago footwork, k-time, situationism, style extraction, “Punisher” types, and theorizing as a way to both clarify and escape the self.

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