6 - Brian Allen Carr

Brian Allen Carr is the author of several novels and story collections, including Opioid, Indiana, Sip, The Shape of Every Monster Yet to Come, and Motherfucking Sharks. He was the inaugural winner of the Texas Observer short story prize and two-time winner of the Wonderland Book Award. His story "Whisper to Scar" was adapted into the feature film Weightless starring that dude from Jackass. He lives in Indiana.

On this episode: working in other people's homes, the man in the deer blinds, self-procured meats, shout-out Cameron Pierce, animals on medicine, "COVID is like an STD...", social media is weird, the freedom of being cancelled, short attention spans, the class divide of woke culture, Tómas Rivera's And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, juxtaposion vs proximity, loose novels, Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street, Justin Torres's We the Animals, flow, Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the tool's pride, anti-resolution, fucking up your own idea, when it both works and doesn't, Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, big vs indie, writer beef, ugly words, vague hype for Brian's next thing.