This story is about a housewife who contemplates the dead insects riddling her home. Revulsion turns into curiosity turns into obsession turns into a sense of totemic mysticism.

Purchase a copy of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9781590177648

A review of The Tunnel: https://thecollidescope.com/2022/01/22/the-tunnel-by-william-h-gass/

A review of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife: https://thecollidescope.com/2022/01/30/willie-masters-lonesome-wife-by-william-h-gass/

Huge thanks to Mary Gass for permission to read this story!

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In this episode, the writer Garielle Lutz and host George Salis discuss turning the quotidian into art, the epistolary work of writers, the limits of vocabulary and the mispronunciation of words, how literary voices are extinguished in academic institutions, the lack of a serious readership, her fascination with individual sentences, her sense of bodily abstraction and how it has affected her life and writing, her late-life autism diagnosis, how she’s a “freak-magnetic” in public, her ostensible Nobel Prize consideration, the work of Paul Schrader and other films, her troubled relationship with her mother, and much more.

Garielle Lutz was born in Allentown, PA in 1955. Her most recent book is the nonfiction collection Backwardness (SF/LD). Her most recent short story collection is Worsted (now in its second printing from Calamari Archive). Previous books include The Gotham Grammarian (Calamari Archive) and The Complete Gary Lutz (Tyrant Books). From 1997 to 2000, she edited fiction for 5 Trope, an online journal of experimental poetry and prose. Before retiring, she was a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

Read the 2022 Collidescope text interview with Lutz here.

Read "Protandry" by George Salis here.

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In this episode, the writer Lee Siegel and host George Salis discuss Siegel's prolific work, his obsession with Orientalism, magic on the streets and on the page, Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux, the allure of audiobooks, his recent forays into painting, fatalism within literature and without, and much more.

Lee Siegel is the Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii. He has published many novels, including Love in a Dead Language and Typerotica, multiple non-fiction books about India, and a translation of Sanskrit love poetry called Sweet Nothings. Siegel’s writing has earned him a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two Residency awards at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and the Elliot Cades Award for Literature.

A Review of Love in a Dead Language by Lee Siegel: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/08/22/love-in-a-dead-language-by-lee-siegel/

A Review of Typerotica by Lee Siegel: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/08/30/a-review-of-typerotica-by-lee-siegel/

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