A talk with Scott Schaaf about growing up in the Quad Cities and ending up in Chicago to eventually open his great record store, Pinwheel Records, in Pilsen.
A Georges Perec list
A hundred-seventy-nine-line list from Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual that is a kind of skeleton key or cheat sheet for the whole book.
Lucy Sante (2024)
A talk with Lucy Sante about her new memoir, a lifetime of writing, and her unexpected newfound fame.
Dmitry Samarov
Skyler Rowe interviews Dmitry Samarov about childhood, art, and the rest of it.
Katherine Eremia
A talk with artist Katherine Eremia about growing up in the South, coming up to Chicago, and a whole lot more.
Tyler Dempsey
A talk with writer/podcaster/lover of remote locales, Tyler Dempsey.
Read my review of his novel, Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward.
Bartlebooth learns to watercolor
A few more pages from Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual.
Preamble to Life: A User’s Manual
I read the intro to Georges Perec’s 1978 novel.
Coyle & Bandini
I read the first few pages from George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle and John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini.
It’s Because We’re So Poor
I read a story from Juan Rulfo’s The Plain in Flames.
Pedro Páramo
The first couple pages from a new translation of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel.
The Story of RR 1: Father Frost
The fifth conversation in an ongoing series about one woman’s childhood.
Castling
The first few pages from Renata Adler’s Speedboat.
Go
A few pages from Benjamin Labatut’s The Maniac.
Mallory Smart: I Keep My Visions to Myself
A talk with writer Mallory Smart about her forthcoming book. Order it here.
The Story of RR 1: Healing Fantasies
Another installment in the story of one woman’s childhood.
The Story of RR 1: Against the Wind
The story of one woman’s childhood continues.
The Story of RR 1: Little Orphan Annie
The second in a series of conversations about one woman’s childhood.
The Story of RR 1: Stella Dallas
The first in a series of conversations about one woman’s childhood.
“to whom it may concern” book-release
A recording of a book-release event at Tangible Books on September 16, 2023, featuring Mallory Smart and Annie Howard.
“Don’t Put No Hands on Me”
A short reading from Don DeLillo’s “Mao II” in honor of my own book-release.
The Yard Man
I read a story by Bonnie Jo Campbell from her 2009 collection, “American Salvage”.
Stan Klein
A talk with artist and wearer of many hats Stan Klein.
Joe Judd
A talk with Joe Judd about starting Myopic Books, moving away, then coming back and establishing Tangible Books in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago.
Read my article about Tangible here.
Johnny Sampson
A talk with illustrator/artist Johnny Sampson about the art racket, comics, music, and the whole kit and caboodle.