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

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

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 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)

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

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