Bookbabble Episode 52: Genre and Literature – Hanging out with Brian Evenson
Bookbabble Episode 52: Genre and Literature – Hanging out with Brian Evenson
Recorded 9 Nov 2009
Babblers: Bjorn, Marcel, Renee, Donny, François with guest Brian Evenson
Synopsis:
The group is pleased to have Brian Evenson, award-winning literary/horror author of Altmann’s Tongue, Last Days and The Open Curtain, among many others. We discuss the man and his work in this interview, covering genres, literature, his work as the Chair of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University, translation works, ebooks and prodigious reading input.
Show Length: 1:27:23 mins
Brian Evenson on the Web
- Official Website
- Brian’s Wikipedia entry
- Brown University’s Literary Arts Program
- Brian Evenson: an introduction (pdf)
- Search for Brian Evenson in Amazon
Mentioned
- Éric Chevillard (François’s write-up here)
- Robert Coover
- Keith Waldrop
- John Edgar Wideman
- Carole Maso
- CD Wright
- William Gass
- Gilles Deleuze
- Daniel Alarcon
- Wells Tower
- Tom McCarthy
- Laird Barron
- Shelley Jackson
- Antoine Volodine
- Underland Press
Books
- Aliens: No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)), B. K. Evenson
- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, William Gass
- Understanding Robert Coover, Brian Evenson
- American Plastic, Gore Vidal (NYTimes), collected in here.
- The Throat, Peter Straub
- A Dark Matter, Peter Straub
- Bardo or Not Bardo, Antoine Volodine
- Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, Thomas Metzinger
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