Daniel Torday makes a triumphant return to talk about his new novel, BOOMER1. He and James chat about creating the world around the book, reinventing like Dylan, aspiring to anti-lyricism, and getting excited about liking stuff. They try to parse out a comic novel vs. a funny one and what constitutes satire. Plus, Emory Harkins discusses the mobile and now brick-and-mortar book store he co-founded and co-owns with Alexa Trembly, Twenty Stories.
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Daniel Torday
Daniel and James Discuss:
David Crosby
THE RUMPUS
“Pretty Polly”
Fleet Foxes
Dirty Projectors
Dr. Dog
WXPM
“Superstitious” by Stevie Wonder
The Velvet Underground
PASTORALIA by George Saunders
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link
Junot Diaz
Karen Russell
David Foster Wallace
Flannery O’Connor
Bob Dylan
William Faulkner
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
SEIZE THE DAY by Saul Bellow
INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace
John Updike
Philip Roth
Netflix
TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson
JESUS’ SON by Denis Johnson
TRAIN DREAMS
RED CALVARY by Isaac Babel
Twenty Stories Bookstore
FLORIDA by Christine Schutt
THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING by Ben Marcus
Aleksandar Hemon
BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy
SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
James Joyce
ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner
LIBRA by Don DeLillo
Dana Spiotta
Leonard Michaels
Grace Paley
Thomas Bernhard
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Franz Kafka
Samuel Beckett
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
The Titanic
Occupy Wall Street
ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf
WE ARE LEGION
McSweeney’s
DAWN OF THE DEAD dir George A. Romero
David Remnick
Fyodor Dostoevsky
YOUR DUCK IS YOUR DUCK by Deborah Eisenberg
Lydia Davis
Dave Barry
Colson Whitehead
Rivka Galchen
OZARK
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Gary Shteyngart
John Mulaney
Pitchfork
Mike Nichols & Elaine May
Dave Chappelle
Chris Rock
THE SOPRANOS
Alfred Hitchcock
Chris Farley
Jane Goodall
Harold Bloom
Lewis Hyde
Yaddo
Best American Short Stories
The O. Henry Prize Stories
Mary Gaitskill
ESQUIRE
“Messiah” by George Friderick Handel
Chris Thile
The Ramones
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Emory and James discuss:
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson
Alexa Trembly
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
DISQUIET
AMERICAN SHORT FICTION
TWO DOLLAR RADIO
CURBSIDE SPLENDOR
THE DEEPER THE WATER, THE UGLIER THE FISH by Katya Apekina
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Adichie
COMEMADRE by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary
WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD by Erica Dawson
JESUS’ SON by Denis Johnson
WHITE GIRLS by Hilton Als
something bright, then holes by Maggie Nelson