DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight.
Buy Imaginary Museums, from Soft Skull
Buy Imaginary Museums, from Soft Skull
Listen on Apple Pods / Spotify / 1 hr / December 3
POD CONTENTS
3 min - pod start
4 min - small rooms big rooms card rooms basements
11 min - on “Winners” (read on New York Tyrant)
14 min - on how life in Slovakia vs. US
19 min - “Field Notes” / Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
21 min - Krasznahorkai
24 min - on the traditions Nicolette partaking in
25 min - The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti
27 min - Intimate Lighting, dir. Ivan Passer
28 min - on making art in communism
31 min - experience working with Soft Skull
33 min - on how these stories written
36 min - me repeatedly belaboring “the Nature”
37 min - Thomas Tallis / Abba
39 min - on what Nicolette working on now / Marta Becket
41 min - solitude vs. sharing. Kierkegaard definition of a saint: “to will the one thing”
42 min - subsequent books as answers to questions posed in previous ones
44 min - female eels
47 min - on Waldorf
55 min - Rings of Saturn by Sebald
57 min - mycology
Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.
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