The Collidescope Podcast

George Salis and guest Henry Gelinas discuss the invisible book Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove.
Henry Gelinas is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, and writer from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Purchase the Sweet Adversity here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578423890
Purchase Those Drinking Days here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578362212
Purchase The Painter Gabriel here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9798218249823
The last interview with Donald Newlove: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/04/18/what-heartbreak-the-wind-will-bring-an-interview-with-donald-newlove/
My text review of Sweet Adversity and Those Drinking Days: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/12/30/sweet-adversity-and-those-drinking-days-by-donald-newlove/
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In this episode, Barton Smock and host George Salis discuss the essence of poetry, death metal, the fear of god, the state of contemporary poetry, and more.
Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH, with his wife and four children. He is the author of numerous self-published works. Author of Ghost Arson (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018) and Wasp, gasp. (Incunabula, 2023).
Buy Wasp, gasp here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/wasp-gasp/paperback/product-gjn5k5q.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Hungrily Poetic: An Interview with Barton Smock: https://thecollidescope.com/2019/08/11/hungrily-poetic-an-interview-with-barton-smock/
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In this episode, the hermetic writer REYoung and host George Salis discuss the “Ponzi scheme” of Dalkey Archive, Young’s experiences as a student of the wonderful novelist Paul West, the perpetuity of Christmas, the emptiness of branding, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and The Pale King, Latin American and Greek fiction, and much more.
REYoung was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently resides in a limestone cave deep beneath the city of Austin, Texas. He is the author of six novels: Unbabbling (Dalkey Archive Press 1997), Margarito and the Snowman (Dalkey Archive Press 2016), Inflation (TageTage Press 2019), The Ironsmith: A Tale of Obsession, Compulsion and Delusion (TageTage Press 2020), Zol (TageTage Press 2020) and Daaa ... SnowBiz! (TageTage Press 2024). His website is here: https://www.reyoung-author.com/

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In this episode, Alan Singer and host George Salis talk about whether or not an MFA is useful, the increasingly stifling atmosphere of universities, the question of free will versus ‘acting’, the primitive muses of violence and sex, film adaptions, dealing with doubt as a writer, Alan’s fruitful friendship with Joseph McElroy, his unfortunately failed attempt to befriend Djuna Barnes, and much more!
Alan Singer is the author of six novels, including The Charnel Imp, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, and most recently Play, A Novel (Grand Iota, 2020). He also writes about aesthetics and the visual arts. His most recent work in this area is Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Purchase Singer’s latest novel here: https://www.grandiota.co.uk/alan-singer.php
Dancing in Chains: An Interview with Alan Singer: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/24/dancing-in-chains-an-interview-with-alan-singer/
A review of The Ox-Breadth by Alan Singer: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/11/01/the-ox-breadth-by-alan-singer/
A review of The Charnel Imp by Alan Singer: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/24/the-charnel-imp-by-alan-singer/
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In this episode, Michael Brodsky and host George Salis discuss suffering in the writer’s external world and the internal world, reaching toward perfection and the impossibility of containing the cosmos in a novel, the necessity/obligation of creating art versus abstaining from it, how words have a right to life, the most important book Michael has read, his 1,200-page magnum opus Invidicum (2023), and much more.
Michael Brodsky, born in New York City on August 2, 1948, is a novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. He is best known for his novels, including Detour (1977) (for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation from PEN); Xman (1987); and *** (1994), as well as for his translation of Samuel Beckett’s Eleuthéria. He lives in Manhattan, on Roosevelt Island. His latest novel is Invidicum.

Buy Invidicum here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9798218272203
Stigmata of the Intrinsic Lesion: A Rare Text Interview with Michael Brodsky: https://thecollidescope.com/2023/03/01/stigmata-of-the-intrinsic-lesion-an-interview-with-michael-brodsky/
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