Metaphysical Vertigo: Nicolás Medina Mora on Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
04/03/24 • 58 min
Charlotte speculates on why Prep is still Curtis Sittenfeld’s best novel, and Jo (17:46) endorses Jeff Sharlet’s sensitive, surprising The Undertow. The scintillating Nicolás Medina Mora (24:05) then joins to revolutionize autofiction discourse with his theory about Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station.
Nicolás Medina Mora is a Mexican writer. He currently works as an editor at Revista Nexos, a monthly magazine of culture and politics published in Mexico City. Before that, he lived in the United States for ten years, where he worked as a financial reporter for Reuters and as a police reporter for BuzzFeed. He holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. His first novel, América del Norte, is forthcoming from Soho Press in May 2024.
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Charlotte is on Instagram and Twitter as @Charoshane. Her memoir, An Honest Woman (August 13, 2024) can be pre-ordered now. She writes semi-regularly in newsletter form, with additional work linked on charoshane.com
Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com
Learn more about our producer Alex at https://www.alexsugiura.com
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Charlotte speculates on why Prep is still Curtis Sittenfeld’s best novel, and Jo (17:46) endorses Jeff Sharlet’s sensitive, surprising The Undertow. The scintillating Nicolás Medina Mora (24:05) then joins to revolutionize autofiction discourse with his theory about Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station.
Nicolás Medina Mora is a Mexican writer. He currently works as an editor at Revista Nexos, a monthly magazine of culture and politics published in Mexico City. Before that, he lived in the United States for ten years, where he worked as a financial reporter for Reuters and as a police reporter for BuzzFeed. He holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. His first novel, América del Norte, is forthcoming from Soho Press in May 2024.
Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.
Charlotte is on Instagram and Twitter as @Charoshane. Her memoir, An Honest Woman (August 13, 2024) can be pre-ordered now. She writes semi-regularly in newsletter form, with additional work linked on charoshane.com
Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com
Learn more about our producer Alex at https://www.alexsugiura.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.
Charlotte is on Instagram and Twitter as @Charoshane. Her memoir, An Honest Woman (August 13, 2024) can be pre-ordered now. She writes semi-regularly in newsletter form, with additional work linked on charoshane.com
Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com
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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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