Listen now (5 min) | An excerpt from Don DeLillo's Underworld. Music by Charles Mingus. Get full access to Arterms at samarov.substack.com/subscribe

An excerpt from Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. Music by Chris Brokaw.

I liked the way Gonzague Van Bervesseles sang "Sylvie" in Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (2018) so much that I recorded it so I could share it with you.

Listen now (8 min) | An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by Arvo Pärt. Get full access to Arterms at samarov.substack.com/subscribe

Listen now (11 min) | An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by Ran Blake. Get full access to Arterms at samarov.substack.com/subscribe

Listen now (3 min) | An excerpt from from a work in progress. Music by Mute Duo. Get full access to Arterms at samarov.substack.com/subscribe

Listen now (7 min) | An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by the Dick Slessig Combo. Get full access to Arterms at samarov.substack.com/subscribe

I read Canto 27 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" as part of a celebration of his 201st birthday. This was a longtime annual event organized by Tony Adler in Evanston, Illinois.

What happens when you set up a book talk and no one shows up? Paul Durica (of the Newberry Library) and I talk about Soviet Stamps and the writing racket to a bunch of empty chairs in the secret back room of Uncharted Books in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago.

I make my triumphant return to The Green Arcade in San Francisco and discuss Soviet Stamps, art, cabdriving, and other related and unrelated topics with Ben Terrall (Namaste, Motherfucker!)