Episode 77: Ryan Chapman & Ira Silverberg

May 28, 2019

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.  

Ryan Chapman

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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 

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