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1 - J David Osborne
Heathenish Radio
English - October 07, 2020 15:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsArts Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On the first episode of Heathenish Radio, I'm joined by my blood brother J. David Osborne - author of Black Gum, A Minor Storm, and several other novels - to talk about writing as art, holding tight to what we hold sacred, and putting to rest the "punk rock vs. sell-out" argument.
On this episode:
coming out of a slump
two types of creators
novelty novels
the church metaphor
keeping it sacred
shouts out Karl Ove Knausgaard and Thomas Bernhard
the honesty of selfish art
short books
there are no rules
shouts out Troy James Weaver, Brian Allen Carr, and Mary Robison
the form is important
wild man in the woods
doubling down on the risk
shout-out Jordan Harper
Grant Morrison on Douglas Rushkoff
the punk rock energy of first drafts
shout-out to Jeremy Robert Johnson
Do Every Thing Wrong! by Jarett Kobek
evolution of The Weeknd
shout-out to Stephen Graham Jones
the things that haunt us
shout-out to Anthony Trevino
dream prose
juggalos are like shamans
do what you're good at
the naïve shaman
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