TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book. Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram.
POD CONTENTS:
2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod
7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art
10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now
13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - "The Storyteller" by Benjamin
15 min - “Write from the end of the world”
16 min - desperation vs self sabotage
19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book
21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically)
24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body
27 min - do it for the ones who need it
31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction
35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting
39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god”
42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write
45 min - is human connection possible
47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok
52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now
56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok
59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin
1 hr - to share or not to share
1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful
1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me”
1 hr 6 min - drugs
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Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.
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2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod
7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art
10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now
13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - "The Storyteller" by Benjamin
15 min - “Write from the end of the world”
16 min - desperation vs self sabotage
19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book
21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically)
24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body
27 min - do it for the ones who need it
31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction
35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting
39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god”
42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write
45 min - is human connection possible
47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok
52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now
56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok
59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin
1 hr - to share or not to share
1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful
1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me”
1 hr 6 min - drugs
#
Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem.
#
Previous
<<60: Shy Watson on HORROR VACUI (2021)
Related
<<58: Giancarlo DiTrapano on NY TYRANT (2005–Present)
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