Episode 84: Gabriel Urza & Tyler Glauz-Todrank

September 10, 2019

It started as a short story in grad school, but Gabriel Urza kept coming back to what would eventually be his novella THE WHITE DEATH: AN ILLUSION. He talks to James about feeling like a child in the face of magic, having trouble extricating past from present, portraying the ambiguity of the supernatural, working through your problems when writing, and reading that’s like eating a bag of chips. Plus, Tyler Glauz-Todrank from Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, VT on fall releases. 

Gabriel Urza

Buy THE WHITE DEATH: AN ILLUSION

Gabriel and James discuss: 

Charles Dickens 

ANGELS & DEMONS by Dan Brown 

Kurt Vonnegut 

The Ohio State University 

“Fantasy for Eleven Fingers” by Ben Fountain 

the Magic Castle 

“Eisenheim the Illusionist” by Steven Millhauser

Jeff Mcbride

Mt. Hood 

Sewanee Writers’ Conference 

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 

Annie Hartnett 

Hannah Tinti 

Loch Ness 

Claire Vaye Watkins

THE THIRD HOTEL by Laura van den Berg 

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov 

Deena Drewis 

Tyler Glauz-Todrank 

Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, VT

Tyler and James discuss: 

BUNNY by Mona Awad: Buy BUNNY

Bear Pond Books 

Rivendell 

James Baldwin 

WHO KILLED MY FATHER by Edouard Louis trans. by Lorin Stein

New Directions Press 

LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson trans. by Molly Ringwald

LOT: STORIES by Bryan Washington

THE WORD FOR WOMAN IS WILDERNESS by Abi Andrews

Two Dollar Radio 

HARD MOUTH by Amanda Goldblatt

GRAND UNION: STORIES by Zadie Smith

IN THE DREAMHOUSE: A MEMOIR by Carmen Maria Machado

Graywolf Press

RED AT THE BONE by Jacqueline Woodson

NOTHING TO SEE HERE by Kevin Wilson

TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH by Kevin Wilson

THE FAMILY FANG by Kevin Wilson

AN AMERICAN SUNRISE by Joy Harjo

Ben Lerner 

ON SWIFT HORSES by Shannon Pufahl

OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT by Petina Gappah

Scribner 

EYES BOTTLE DARK WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FLOWERS by Jake Skeets 

Richard Avedon 

Milkweed Editions 

HUNGER MOUNTAIN 

HOMIE by Danez Smith

HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES by Saeed Jones

Simon & Schuster 

Maggie Nelson 

Buy WE THE ANIMALS 

EROSION: ESSAYS OF UNDOING by Terry Tempest Williams

MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN: ESSAYS by Leslie Jamison

YEAR OF THE MONKEY by Patti Smith

CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX by Jordy Rosenberg