Satire can be the last, best way to critique difficult topics, and Ryan Chapman’s blistering novel, RIOTS I HAVE KNOWN, takes on, among other things, incarceration, literature’s standing in the culture, and intellectual pretension. He and James talk novellas, using contemporary cultural references, writing to a melody, and publishing a book after working in the field. Plus, literary advocate, legend, and Ryan’s editor, Ira Silverberg.
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Ryan Chapman
Ryan and James discuss:
Joseph Heller
Mark Leyner
Martin Amis
Don DeLillo
Thomas Pynchon
AO Scott
Wesley Morris
BREAKING BAD
Philip Roth
Roberto Bolano
Horacio Castellanos Moya
New Directions Books
Poopy Atherton
University of Iowa
WG Sebald
THE CRYING OF LOT 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Kanye West
A$AP Rocky
DRAM
JURASSIC PARK
Steve Martin
Michel Foucault
“Pardon Edward Snowden” by Joseph O’Neill
Tin House Summer Workshop
Joy Williams
Guy Debord
Andy Dufresne
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Frank Darabont
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides
THE LOSER by Thomas Bernhard
TRAINSPOTTING by Irvine Welsh
THE BEACH by Alex Garland
THE GODFATHER
THE GODFATHER by Mario Puzo
Eric Andre
TOO MANY COOKS
Toni Morrison
Ira Silverberg
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Marya Spence
Daniel Torday
DEAR CYBORGS by Eugene Lim
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Ira Silverberg
Ira and James discuss:
Sam Lipsyte
FSG
Macmillan Publishers
BOMB Magazine
Marya Spence
Simon & Schuster
Mark Twain
OZ
SCRUBS
NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
BOOKFORUM
LITHUB
THE MILLIONS
Parul Sehgal
HIGH RISK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FORBIDDEN WRITINGS
PUSH by Sapphire
Knopf
Kathy Acker
Grove Press
Dennis Cooper
Ben Lerner
Coffee House Press
Three Lives & Co.
Melville House
SOHO
Emily St. John Mandel
Katherine Faucett
THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
Leslie Jamison
Graywolf Press
Little, Brown and Company
Random House
Andrew Wiley
Overlook Press
Allen Ginsberg
Marguerite Duras
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco
Barney Rosset
JT LeRoy
NEA
Cave Canem: The Retreat
Whiting Awards
LAMBDA Literary
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
PARIS REVIEW
Ann Kjellberg
BOOK POST
AWP
Poetry Society of American
Academy of American poets
AIR TRAFFIC by Gregory Pardlow
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong
Cathy Park Hong
Poem-A-Day
Alex Dimitrov
Four Way Books
Copper Canyon Press