Big thanks to Ben Lindner for interviewing me about Nervosities! on Beyond the Zero!
Tune in to hear me talk about, among other things, my background as an artist, literary and otherwise; my work as a critic, editor, and publisher; subversive, viz., experimental and innovative prose and poetry, writing that writes against the logic of the marketplace, the state, and religion, and other machines and apparatuses of discipline and control; the ruins of Alt Lit; the vanishing and seeming return of the blogosphere; love, love, love; marginalization; small press ecologies; Rhizomatic, my boutique publicity firm; maximalism and minimalism; some of the themes of Nervosities, e.g., the perils and wonders of exile and diaspora, hyper-mediatization, death-cult capitalism, loneliness, consciousness, the mutability of identity and the so-called self, and more. The show ends with me sharing a list of my “gateway books”: books that inspired me as a reader and writer; a list of books I have recently read and am looking forward to reading; and finally a list of my “desert island books.”
Lindner has featured so many of my favorite writers, superb writers all (among them Louis Armand, Gabriel Blackwell, Jeff Bursey, Tobias Carroll, Rikki Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Babak Lakghomi, Lance Olsen, Dawn Raffel, John Reed, and William Walsh (each of whose work I’ve published in Big Other), and Sergio de la Pava, Álvaro Enrigue, Sam Lipsyte, Garielle Lutz, and Marcus Pactor, and many other writers), so you can imagine my delight to be featured on the show.
Ka-pow!
Listen to the interview HERE!
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 