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.
POD CONTENTS
7 min - pod start
10 min - Gian’s biggest grievance w the game
17 min - expert talk / literary pedantry
21 min - stuff people read in prison to entertain themselves
24 min - the elitism of Literature and linguistic classism
27 min - books were initially about the democratization of thought
29 min - Lazarillo de Tormez
30 min - Canterbury tales
33 min - Don Quixote / Battle of Lepanto (1571)
38 min - parallel between Cervantes and Nico
41 min - McClanahan / we just do what we see on TV
41.5 min - the solution to the big house / indie divide
42 min - Nico’s experience w Gian v. Knopf
50 min - are you gonna put the work in
51 min - no one does anything alone
54 min - Marie Calloway
59 min - if no backlash is an artwork doing anything
1 hr 1 min - what is to be done
1 hr 3 min - the difficulty / importance of dialogue
1 hr 7 min - we say who we are through our speech
1 hr 10 min - flannery O’Connor / *James Joyce quote correction - "I am a creature driven and derided by vanity"
1 hr 13 min - Hill William
1 hr 20 min - infallible narrators
1 hr 23 min - how to keep going when shit gets more fucked than you ever coulda imagined
1 hr 24 min - tear the bandaid off .. just say it
1 hr 28 min - on war
1 hr 35 min - the contradictions of war
1 hr 40 min - Nico’s day to day now / Rachael Rabbit White
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