4/10/2023 0 Comments Fight night bookWe talk about what makes a work of fiction feel dated-which may go against conventional wisdom-as well as risk-taking and having fun as a writer. Shark, which he remembered loving and wanted to revisit. For our reading, Aaron chose Chris Bachelder's debut novel from 2001, Bear v. Aaron is also a long-time literary editor, having founded Hobart in the early 2000s and, more recently, HAD, which has made "skull collecting" the newest badge of literary coolness. We're joined by writer and editor Aaron Burch, whose novel Year of the Buffalo came out in November. If you like the podcast, and would like more of it, we're releasing two bonus episodes a month to our Patreon subscribers, for only $5: You can learn more about Sugi, and her new book, here. So we talk to her about what she learned from Moya, and how reading this book helped her get her own novel over the finish line. Both her own novel novel and Moya's deal with atrocities, and both in some darkly humorous ways. So one thing we talk about is that process, and what it's like to write and rewrite a novel over more than fifteen years.įor our reading, Sugi chose Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness, the first of his novels to be translated into English, and which a friend of hers recommended, several years ago, when she was deep in the throes of her own book. Sugi is also a former grad school classmate of ours, and she began Brotherless Night back when all three of us were at Iowa together. Ganeshananthan, author of two critically acclaimed novels, most recently Brotherless Night, which takes place during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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