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1 - J David Osborne

Heathenish Radio

English - October 07, 2020 15:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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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

JPEGMAFIA

Sunn O)))

shout-out Jordan Harper

Alice Knott by Blake Butler

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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