Cleveland Review of Books Podcast

Cleveland Review of Books
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The official podcast of the Cleveland Review of Books, a journal of criticism publishing reviews, essays, interviews, and excerpts both online and in print. Among other formats, the podcast highlights contributors and their work, allowing them to expand on ideas they presented and experimented with in our pages.

  1. May 18

    The Cultural History of Infinite Jest’s Forewords w/Ryan William Lackey

    We talk to Ryan William Lackey about his piece, “Finding a Way In: On Michelle Zauner and the Cultural History of Infinite Jest’s Forewords.” DFW, Japanese Breakfast, GTA, the foreword-to-the-reissue-industrial complex, sports, etc. - Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Piece: https://clereviewofbooks.com/finding-a-way-in-on-michelle-zauner-and-the-cultural-history-of-infinite-jests-forewords/ Subscribe: https://clereviewofbooks.com/membership-levels/ Buy Volume 4.1: https://clereviewofbooks.com/product/vol-4-point-1/ Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made - Ryan Lackey is a writer, critic, and PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. He’s also a founding editor of Miscellany, a biannual journal of writing and art. His work has appeared in Post45 Contemporaries, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, Full Stop, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

    The Cultural History of Infinite Jest’s Forewords w/Ryan William Lackey

  2. 03/22/2024

    Resistance and Insistence: Capitalist Fiction, Conglomeration, and the Avant-Garde

    We talk with J. Arthur Boyle about his piece, “The Artist’s Self Interest: On Capitalist Fiction.” Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Piece: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/dan-sinykin-big-fiction Newsletter: www.clereviewofbooks.com/newsletter Store: www.clereviewofbooks.com/store Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made

    Resistance and Insistence: Capitalist Fiction, Conglomeration, and the Avant-Garde

  3. 01/19/2024

    The Cook, The Surrealist, Her Husband-Thief, and His Manifesto: Emmeline Clein on Literary Cookbooks

    Joined by special guest, fellow editor Alana Pockros, we talk with Emmeline Clein about her piece, “Recipes, Rumors, and Reminiscence: A Literary Cookbook Gift Guide.” “We talk about opulence, decadence, intransigence, dinner parties, the list as form, stealing husbands, anti-fascist pasta, Italian futurism, what Alice Toklas ate during before and after the war, considerations of oysters, and Salvador Dali.” Emmeline’s book “Dead Weight,” a cultural, political, and personal history of disordered eating, comes out in late February from Knopf. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Piece: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/a-literary-cookbook-gift-guide Newsletter: www.clereviewofbooks.com/newsletter Store: www.clereviewofbooks.com/store Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made

    The Cook, The Surrealist, Her Husband-Thief, and His Manifesto: Emmeline Clein on Literary Cookbooks

  4. 01/01/2024

    The Novel as Résumé: Chapman Caddell on Ben Lerner and Frederick Exley

    Buy Volume 1, out now, here :) (https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01) We talk with Chapman Caddell about his piece “View from the Couch: Success, “The Topeka School,” and “A Fan’s Notes.” Fiction-criticism, criticism-fiction, a loser’s guide to the future of contemporary literature, the careerist novel, “36 on the ACT-core” prose, Henry James in Philly, literary criticism in Argentina, and a young Ben Lerner in the grocery store. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Piece: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/view-from-the-couch-the-topeka-school-a-fans-notes-the-novel Newsletter: www.clereviewofbooks.com/newsletter Store: www.clereviewofbooks.com/store Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made Pieces or Works Mentioned: “The Pound Era” by Hugh Kenner (University of California Press, 1971) (PDF easily available online) “A Golden Age” by Ryan Ruby (article published by Vinduet, April 2023) (https://www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/a-golden-age-ryan-ruby-on-literary-criticism-and-the-internet/) “The Golden Age of the Working Critic”, American Vandal Podcast (Criticism LTD series, hosted by Matt Seybold) (https://marktwainstudies.com/goldenage/) We didn’t specifically talk about this piece, but I’d never heard of Piglia before so this is worth sharing. “Ricardo Piglia’s Prescient Conspiracies” (Article published by the New Yorker in 2017) (https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/ricardo-piglias-prescient-conspiracies) “Jock Itch: Toxic Fandom in the Novels of Frederick Exley and Chris Bachelder” by Mina Tavakoli (Article published by Bookforum, July 2022) (https://www.bookforum.com/fiction/toxic-fandom-in-the-novels-of-frederick-exley-and-chris-bachelder-25002)

    The Novel as Résumé: Chapman Caddell on Ben Lerner and Frederick Exley

  5. 12/18/2023

    Andy Warhol Has Been Shot: Rafaela Bassili on Nicole Flattery's "Nothing Special"

    We talk with Rafaela Bassili about her piece “Andy Warhol Has Been Shot: On Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special". It Girls, Invisible yet omnipresent Warhol, Edie Sedgwick (tormenter and tormented), hierarchies of attention-value, fleeing the suburbs for the big city, the difficulty of being cool, avoiding writing preachy, morally simplistic novels, and proto-only fans. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Piece: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/nicole-flattery-nothing-special Newsletter: www.clereviewofbooks.com/newsletter Store: www.clereviewofbooks.com/store Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made

    Andy Warhol Has Been Shot: Rafaela Bassili on Nicole Flattery's "Nothing Special"

  6. 10/06/2023

    Philip Metres on Sergey Gandlevsky and the Task of the Translator

    We talk with Philip Metres about his upcoming award winning book of translated poems: “Ochre and Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky.” Russian Literature as homeland, (self-)imposed exile, close readings, mothers, slant rhyme being cooler than direct end rhyme, retweeting Walter Benjamin, the deficit model of translation, and the music of language. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Newsletter: www.clereviewofbooks.com/newsletter Store: www.clereviewofbooks.com/store Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made Register for Virtual Book Launch: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdOqsqTMiG9yBQ_-u_7HVPh4US7Ma453v?mibextid=Zxz2cZ#/registration (Pre-)Order the book: https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/ochre-and-rust

    Philip Metres on Sergey Gandlevsky and the Task of the Translator

  7. 09/22/2023

    Still, Observing: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo on Christine Kwon's "A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue"

    We talk with Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo about her piece “Still, Observing: On Christine Kwon’s A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue”. Labor’s relation to and intertwinement with domestic life, femininity, and craft; upper-level seminar close reading mode, good parties and bad parties, bathtubs, Korean and Korean-American poetry, name-checking your influences, pay-to-play poetry prize chapbook publishing, and survival. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective. Piece: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/christine-kwon-a-ribbon-the-most-perfect-blue Newsletter: www.clereviewofbooks.com/newsletter Store: www.clereviewofbooks.com/store Muamin Collective Bandcamp: muamincollective.bandcamp.com/album/tailor-made Index for Continuance Podcast by CSU Poetry Center(referenced): http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/index-for-continuance-podcast

    Still, Observing: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo on Christine Kwon's "A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue"

  8. 08/04/2023

    Deaths Plural: Guillermo Rebollo Gil on Pro Wrestling and Poetry

    We talk with Guillermo Rebollo Gil about his piece “Deaths Plural: On Pro Wrestling and Poetry.” Performance, grief, Roland Barthes, the stone cold stunners of Steve Austin, high brow snobbery, low brow elevation, bros, drag, Puerto Rico, and nostalgia. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter. Find subscription plans, print issues, and merch at our online store. Music/beats by producer aLiVE of Muamin Collective.

    Deaths Plural: Guillermo Rebollo Gil on Pro Wrestling and Poetry
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