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.

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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/

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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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In this episode, the hermetic writer REYoung and host George Salis discuss the “Ponzi scheme” of Dalkey Archive, Young’s experiences as a student of the wonderful novelist Paul West, the perpetuity of Christmas, the emptiness of branding, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and The Pale King, Latin American and Greek fiction, and much more.

REYoung was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently resides in a limestone cave deep beneath the city of Austin, Texas. He is the author of six novels: Unbabbling (Dalkey Archive Press 1997), Margarito and the Snowman (Dalkey Archive Press 2016), Inflation (TageTage Press 2019), The Ironsmith: A Tale of Obsession, Compulsion and Delusion (TageTage Press 2020), Zol (TageTage Press 2020) and Daaa … SnowBiz! (TageTage Press 2024). His website is here: https://www.reyoung-author.com/

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In this episode, the writer Barton Smock and host George Salis discuss the essence of poetry, death metal, the fear of god, the state of contemporary poetry, and more.

Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH, with his wife and four children. He is the author of numerous self-published works. Author of Ghost Arson (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018) and Wasp, gasp. (Incunabula, 2023).

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Hungrily Poetic: An Interview with Barton Smock: https://thecollidescope.com/2019/08/11/hungrily-poetic-an-interview-with-barton-smock/

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In this episode, the writer Michael Brodsky and host George Salis discuss suffering in the writer’s external world and the internal world, reaching toward perfection and the impossibility of containing the cosmos in a novel, the necessity/obligation of creating art versus abstaining from it, how words have a right to life, the most important book Michael has read, his 1,200-page magnum opus Invidicum (2023), and much more.

Michael Brodsky, born in New York City on August 2, 1948, is a novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. He is best known for his novels, including Detour (1977) (for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation from PEN); Xman (1987); and *** (1994), as well as for his translation of Samuel Beckett’s Eleuthéria. He lives in Manhattan, on Roosevelt Island. His latest novel is Invidicum.

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Stigmata of the Intrinsic Lesion: A Rare Text Interview with Michael Brodsky: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/03/01/stigmata-of-the-intrinsic-lesion-an-interview-with-michael-brodsky/

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George Salis and guest Henry Gelinas discuss the invisible book Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove.

Henry Gelinas is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, and writer from Charlotte, North Carolina.

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The last interview with Donald Newlove: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/04/18/what-heartbreak-the-wind-will-bring-an-interview-with-donald-newlove/

My text review of Sweet Adversity and Those Drinking Days: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/12/30/sweet-adversity-and-those-drinking-days-by-donald-newlove/

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George Salis and guest Jacob Pascoe discuss the invisible book Thou Worm Jacob by Mark Jay Mirsky.

Jacob Pascoe is a writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. His work spans narrative film and music videos to prose and essays. He studied film production and literature at the University of British Columbia. His website is here.

Pascoe's review of A Death: Notes on a Suicide by Zalman Shneour: https://thecollidescope.com/2022/07/17/a-death-notes-on-a-suicide-by-zalman-shneour%ef%bf%bc/

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