Emily Adrian interviews Justin Taylor. Topics include: growing up as a child actor, growing into a writer, a couple Donald Barthelme anthologies, his first books, the new novel REBOOT, realism, the supernatural, tv forms in the novel, a bottle chapter, Portland, Dawson's Creek, and more.
On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Emily Adrian interviews Justin Taylor.
Justin Taylor's most recent book is the novel Reboot. He is also the author of the memoir Riding with the Ghost, the novel The Gospel of Anarchy, and two story collections: Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and Flings. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Oxford American, and the Sewanee Review.
Emily Adrian is the author of several novels and the forthcoming memoir Daughterhood. Her work has appeared in Granta, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Full conversation topics include:
-- growing up as a child actor
-- always wanting to be a writer
-- a father who read and read into his work
-- editing a couple Donald Barthelme anthologies
-- the leadup to his first few books
-- the new novel REBOOT
-- the role, limits, and manipulation of realism in his work
-- inviting the supernatural
-- the show within the novel
-- a bottle chapter
-- The Hungry Tiger
-- Dawson's Creek
-- Judy Blume moments for middle aged men
-- writing a short story again
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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.
The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton, author of Home Movies.