62: Nico Walker

1storypod · 62: Nico Walker on CHERRY (2018) & GIAN (1974–2021)

​OXFORD, MS / NYC — Nico Walker is the author of the novel Cherry (Knopf, 2018). He was born in Georgia and grew up in Las Vegas and Cleveland. He served as a medic in the Iraq war. And worked with the late Gian DiTrapano on Cherry while in prison in the mid 2010s. Here is a recent piece he wrote on Gian. Here is a collection Tao Lin put together, that I contributed to, on Gian. Here is the Lit Hub article I mentioned in the intro, on the history of Cherry's covers.

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