The Collidescope Podcast George Salis

In this episode, Michael Brodsky and I discuss suffering in the writer’s external world and the internal world, reaching toward perfection and the impossibility of containing the cosmos in a novel, the necessity/obligation of creating art versus abstaining from it, how words have a right to life, the most important book Michael has read, his 1,200-page magnum opus Invidicum (2023), and much more.

Michael Brodsky, born in New York City on August 2, 1948,  is a novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. He is best known for his novels, including Detour (1977) (for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation from PEN); Xman (1987); and *** (1994), as well as for his translation of Samuel Beckett’s Eleuthéria. He lives in Manhattan, on Roosevelt Island. His latest novel is Invidicum.
Buy Invidicum here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9798218272203

Stigmata of the Intrinsic Lesion: A Rare Text Interview with Michael Brodsky: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/03/01/stigmata-of-the-intrinsic-lesion-an-interview-with-michael-brodsky/

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George Salis and guest Henry Gelinas discuss the invisible book Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove.

Henry Gelinas is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, and writer from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Purchase the Sweet Adversity here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578423890
Purchase Those Drinking Days here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578362212
Purchase The Painter Gabriel here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9798218249823

The last interview with Donald Newlove: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/04/18/what-heartbreak-the-wind-will-bring-an-interview-with-donald-newlove/

My text review of Sweet Adversity and Those Drinking Days: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/12/30/sweet-adversity-and-those-drinking-days-by-donald-newlove/

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George Salis and guest Jacob Pascoe discuss Thou Worm Jacob by Mark Jay Mirsky.

Jacob Pascoe is a writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. His work spans narrative film and music videos to prose and essays. He studied film production and literature at the University of British Columbia. His website is here.

Pascoe's review of A Death: Notes on a Suicide by Zalman Shneour: https://thecollidescope.com/2022/07/17/a-death-notes-on-a-suicide-by-zalman-shneour%ef%bf%bc/

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George Salis and guest Matthew Taylor Blais discuss the invisible book Movieland by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, translated by Ángel Flores.

Matthew Taylor Blais is a filmmaker currently based in Vancouver, Canada.

Buy de la Serna’s Movieland here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578336817
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The text review of de la Serna’s Movieland: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/09/24/movieland-by-ramon-gomez-de-la-serna/

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Alan Singer is the author of six novels, including The Charnel Imp, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, and most recently Play, A Novel (Grand Iota, 2020). He also writes about aesthetics and the visual arts. His most recent work in this area is Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art (Bloomsbury, 2018).

In this episode, we talk about whether or not an MFA is useful, the increasingly stifling atmosphere of universities, the question of free will versus ‘acting’, the primitive muses of violence and sex, film adaptions, dealing with doubt as a writer, Alan’s fruitful friendship with Joseph McElroy, his unfortunately failed attempt to befriend Djuna Barnes, and much more! 

Purchase Singer’s latest novel here: https://www.grandiota.co.uk/alan-singer.php

Dancing in Chains: An Interview with Alan Singer: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/24/dancing-in-chains-an-interview-with-alan-singer/

A review of The Ox-Breadth by Alan Singer: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/11/01/the-ox-breadth-by-alan-singer/

A review of The Charnel Imp by Alan Singer: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/24/the-charnel-imp-by-alan-singer/

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The story of a species of creature known as oono, so massive it can't be seen in full, and the ignook couple who is trying to start a family in the arctic wilderness. Their only hope is for the aspiring father to connect with an oono spirit even if it means deceiving him, even if it means becoming more than human.

Interview with Patricia Eakins: https://thecollidescope.com/2019/10/18/imaginary-beings-an-interview-with-patricia-eakins/

Review of Eakins' first novel: https://thecollidescope.com/2020/01/12/the-marvelous-adventures-of-pierre-baptiste-by-patricia-eakins/

Huge thanks to Patricia for permission to read this story!

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