Ep. 26: Mike Scalise & Ariel Lewiton Pt. 1

In part one of the TK One Year Anniversary Jubilee, Mike Scalise discusses his phenomenal memoir, THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE. He talks with James about being diagnosed with the hormonal disorder acromegaly, the difficulties he encountered writing about it, the blind spots of memoir, what it's like to be a public representative of a rare condition, and the complexities of ordering middle grade Bobby "The Brain" Heenan bios through university inter-library loan. Will they discuss Mike's beloved Steelers? (Spoiler: No)  

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Mike Scalise: http://mikescalise.tumblr.com/bnc

Mike and James Discuss: 

Sarabande Books 

THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY by Sarah Manguso

Eddie Carmel 

Rondo Hatton

Andre the Giant 

Tony Robbins  

Agni 

Yaddo 

Ninth Letter 

George Mason University 

Bucknell University 

Susan Orlean 

Michael Paterniti 

SEEK: REPORTS FROM THE EDGES OF AMERICA & BEYOND by Denis Johnson

American Short Fiction 

One Story 

BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 

ANDRE THE GIANT: LIFE AND LEGEND by Box Brown 

AS YOU WISH: INCONCEIVABLE TALES FROM THE MAKING OF THE PRINCESS BRIDE by Cary Elwes 

Philip Roth 

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 

Rick Flair 

The Fabulous Moolah 

Porochista Khakpour 

G.C. Waldrep 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE by Lucy Grealy

HAPPY: A MEMOIR by Alex Lemon 

PATRIMONY: A TRUE STORY by Philip Roth  

STOP-TIME: A MEMOIR by Frank Conroy 

SPEAK, MEMORY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY REVISITED by Vladimir Nabokov 

Laura van den Berg

Jim Shepard  

HALF A LIFE: A MEMOIR by Darin Strauss 

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