Ep. 66: Daniel Torday Is Back & Emory Harkins

Daniel Torday makes a triumphant return to talk about his new novel, BOOMER1. He and James chat about creating the world around the book, reinventing like Dylan, aspiring to anti-lyricism, and getting excited about liking stuff. They try to parse out a comic novel vs. a funny one and what constitutes satire. Plus, Emory Harkins discusses the mobile and now brick-and-mortar book store he co-founded and co-owns with Alexa Trembly, Twenty Stories.  

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Daniel Torday: http://www.danieltorday.com/

Daniel and James Discuss: 

David Crosby 

THE RUMPUS 

"Pretty Polly" 

Fleet Foxes 

Dirty Projectors 

Dr. Dog 

WXPM 

"Superstitious" by Stevie Wonder 

The Velvet Underground 

PASTORALIA by George Saunders 

MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link 

Junot Diaz 

Karen Russell 

David Foster Wallace 

Flannery O'Connor 

Bob Dylan

William Faulkner 

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow 

SEIZE THE DAY by Saul Bellow

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace 

John Updike 

Philip Roth 

Netflix 

TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson 

JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson 

TRAIN DREAMS 

RED CALVARY by Isaac Babel 

Twenty Stories Bookstore  

FLORIDA by Christine Schutt 

THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING by Ben Marcus 

Aleksandar Hemon 

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy 

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy 

SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy 

James Joyce 

ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner 

LIBRA by Don DeLillo 

Dana Spiotta 

Leonard Michaels 

Grace Paley 

Thomas Bernhard 

Laszlo Krasznahorkai 

Franz Kafka 

Samuel Beckett 

Jack Ruby 

Lee Harvey Oswald

The Titanic 

Occupy Wall Street 

ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf 

WE ARE LEGION

McSweeney's 

DAWN OF THE DEAD dir George A. Romero 

David Remnick 

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

YOUR DUCK IS YOUR DUCK by Deborah Eisenberg

Lydia Davis 

Dave Barry 

Colson Whitehead 

Rivka Galchen 

OZARK 

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 

Gary Shteyngart 

John Mulaney 

Pitchfork 

Mike Nichols & Elaine May 

Dave Chappelle 

Chris Rock 

THE SOPRANOS 

Alfred Hitchcock 

Chris Farley 

Jane Goodall 

Harold Bloom 

Lewis Hyde 

Yaddo 

Best American Short Stories 

The O. Henry Prize Stories 

Mary Gaitskill 

ESQUIRE 

"Messiah" by George Friderick Handel 

Chris Thile 

The Ramones 

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TWENTY STORIES: https://www.twentystoriesla.com/

Emory and James discuss: 

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson 

Alexa Trembly

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 

DISQUIET

AMERICAN SHORT FICTION 

TWO DOLLAR RADIO 

CURBSIDE SPLENDOR 

THE DEEPER THE WATER, THE UGLIER THE FISH by Katya Apekina

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Adichie

COMEMADRE by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary

WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD by Erica Dawson

JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson

WHITE GIRLS by Hilton Als 

something bright, then holes by Maggie Nelson 

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