The Great Concavity Matt Bucher & Dave Laird

In Part 2 of our 2020 Year in Review, we talk to old friend of the show, Chris Ayers, our resident film and TV specialist, about the year in screen-based entertainment. 
 
Part 3 with Grace Chipperfield coming soon! 
 
Find Chris' amazing Wallace-related and design work here: 
Poor Yorick - https://pooryorickentertainment.tumblr.com/
Professional - http://www.chrisayerscreative.com/
Redbubble - https://www.redbubble.com/people/cwayers/shop/?collections=999954
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chrisayerscreative/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrisAcreative
 
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Given our Year of Collective Quarantine, we had so much to talk about w/r/t our literary and pop-cultural consumption, that we have a three-parter for our 2020 recap.
In Part 1 here, we talk to old friend and recurring guest of the show, Matt Luter, about his productive year in reading, and ours. We hope you find a slew of new books to add to your stack.
Part 2 coming in January.
Happy New Year to our wonderful listeners, and ode to a much better 2021!
 
Find Matt Luter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewjluter
 
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In Episode 56, we have the great pleasure of talking to Jessica Anthony about her exceptional new book, Enter the Aardvark, as well as our classic favorite, The Convalescent, which you've no doubt heard us mention over the years. Jess unpacks for us her views on the imaginate power of fiction, 19th century British taxidermy, and some of the most expensive luxury goods on the planet. 
 
Show Notes:
André Breton “Manifesto of Surrealism - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil330/MANIFESTO%20OF%20SURREALISM.pdf
Zadie Smith – “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/
Buy Enter the Aardvark (Little, Brown) - https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/jessica-anthony/enter-the-aardvark/9780316536134/
Buy The Convalescent (McSweeney's) - https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-convalescent
Jessica on Instagram - @entertheanthony
 
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In Episode 55, we're joined by writer Christian TeBordo, author of the recent short story collection Ghost Engine, and novel Toughlahoma. He's the director of the creative writing program at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a colleague and friend of recent guests Adam Levin and Kyle Beachy. 
 
You can buy his excellent books here: 
 
Ghost Engine - bookshop.org/books/ghost-engine-stories/9781732366732
 
Toughlahoma - bookshop.org/books/toughlahoma/9780986086908
 
You can read some of his short fiction here:
 
"The Star Thrower-Thrower" https://www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2018/3/26/the-star-thrower-thrower
 
&
 
"How We Lived on Mainstreet" https://vol1brooklyn.com/2018/12/02/sunday-stories-how-we-lived-on-main-street/
 
Christian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/xtebordo
 
 
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In Episode 54, we talk to Martina Testa, Editor at Edizioni SUR, and one of Wallace's Italian translators and interpreters. The conversation explores her background with discovering Wallace's writing, getting contracts to translate his work, the Italian fervour surrounding him, and her friendship with Wallace. 
 
You can find Martina online in these places:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/martinatesta
Edizioni SUR Website - https://www.edizionisur.it/chi-siamo/
 
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In Episode 53, we're joined by the writer Adam Levin, author of The Instructions, Hot Pink, and the incredible forthcoming novel Bubblegum, which releases April 14, 2020. In our conversation, we talk a good deal about the new novel, Adam's experience reading/thinking about Wallace, swearing, parrots, swearing & parrots, metafiction, and other fun topics.
Show notes:
Adam's website: https://www.adamlevinadamlevin.com/
Order Bubblegum - https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385544962
Guernica excerpt of Bubblegum - https://www.guernicamag.com/bubblegum/?fbclid=IwAR39CVIwDGSW9KZm7rrzGA7DaMEAG4sLpf7lxjHVZq4wEvtYZpo2LJW7s58
Order The Instructions - https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-instructions
Order Hot Pink - https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/hot-pink?taxon_id=1
"Kid Positive" The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/02/kid-positive
"Kid Positive" interview, The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/adam-levin-03-02-20
 
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