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Episode One: Jonathan Evison

Labor: A Podcast by The Caribbean (DC)

English - July 12, 2013 15:45 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Michael and author Jonathan Evison sit down at DC’s Comet Ping-Pong and discuss, amongst other things, songwriting vs. writing novels, community and how it’s better than fascism, drinking, first novels not actually being your first novel, ADD, and how failure is more… Continue Reading →

Michael and author Jonathan Evison sit down at DC’s Comet Ping-Pong and discuss, amongst other things, songwriting vs. writing novels, community and how it’s better than fascism, drinking, first novels not actually being your first novel, ADD, and how failure is more important than success.


Praise for Jonathan’s most recent novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving:


“A most stealthily powerful novel…so poignant yet improbably funny.”

-Janet Maslin

The New York Times


Track List: “Lands & Grooves,” from Discontinued Perfume, “Artists in Exile,” also from Discontinued Perfume; “The Truth Hurts Jamie Green,” from Plastic Explosives; “On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess,” also from Plastic Explosives