Another quarter, another delightful edition of Scott Esposito’s Quarterly Conversation. This time, Haruki Murakami is the focus. But there is also a comic by Derik Badman on the passing of Gilbert Sorrentino, among many other attractions.
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Never Judge a Blog By Its Content?
“Partial Concealment”: The New Buzzword If You’re Hiding the Fact That You Were an Accomplice to Genocide
BBC: “In a BBC radio interview Rushdie said that he was ‘extremely shocked’ to hear the news that Grass had served with the Waffen-SS at the end of the second world war, but argued that the revelation made little difference to his literary reputation. It was ‘wrong’ to accuse Grass of ‘a huge act of hypocrisy’, he said, calling it ‘a partial concealment’.”
The Bat Segundo Show #56: Daniel Green and Michael Martone
Guests: Daniel Green and Michael Martone (LBC finalist, Summer 2006)
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Avoiding his own Contributor’s Note.
Subjects Discussed: The entertaining components of experimental fiction, the genesis of contributor’s notes, Edith Hamilton, mythology, the “Michael Martones of the universe,” cultural influence, Hugh Kenner’s The Counterfeiters, how the origin of the word “fact” influences contemporary fiction, Dan Quayle, Donald Barthelmie, collage, John Barth’s Letters, the limits of invention, cultural anxiety and art, how universities affect writer-professors, hypoxic training, and the virtues of bad writing.
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