Night Soul by Joseph McElroy

Welcome to The Collidescope Podcast!

I’m George Salis, founder and editor of The Collidescope, an online publication dedicated to promoting innovative fiction. I started this podcast as another way to promote the kind of writing I love. For my first choice, Joseph McElroy was kind enough to give me permission to read the title story from his collection Night Soul , which was published by Dalkey Archive in 2011.

This particular story stands out for its intimacies between a father and his infant son. The feeling of connection to the past, to one’s parents, beyond the past, a connection to a being that’s future even as you’re becoming past. McElroy explores this connection with an emphasis on language, on communication, what’s implicit if not subconscious, instinctual.
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Other links:
Joseph McElroy interview: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/04/04/a-chaotic-science-an-interview-with-joseph-mcelroy/
Review of Women and Men: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/06/01/women-and-men-by-joseph-mcelroy/
Intro/outro music: DJ Griffin

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