“Such are the perfections of fiction...Everything it teaches is useless insofar as structuring your life: you can’t prop up anything with fiction. It, in fact, teaches you just that. That in order to attempt to employ its specific wisdom is a sign of madness...There is more profit in an hour’s talk with Billy Graham than in a reading of Joyce. Graham might conceivably make you sick, so that you might move, go somewhere to get well. But Joyce just sends you out into the street, where the world goes on, solid as a bus. If you met Joyce and said 'Help me,' he’d hand you a copy of Finnegans Wake. You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things


Monday, June 7, 2010

Triple R Interview with Dave Graney at 1 p.m. Tomorrow

Tomorrow at 1 p.m., I will be interviewed about Known Unknowns on Triple R's Banana Lounge by Dave Graney (of The Coral Snakes and The Moodists) and Elizabeth McCarthy.


I'll also be on Triple R at 7.45 a.m. in my usual Breakfasters slot, where I'll be reviewing David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Now, let's take a second to remember how awesome The Moodists were:

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