Blather Podcast
1) Waste
An excerpt from Don DeLillo's Underworld. Music by Charles Mingus.
2) This would be a pleasant world if everbody could just ride and ride.
An excerpt from Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. Music by Chris Brokaw.
3) Erik Satie's "Sylvie" sung by Gonzague Van Bervesseles
I liked the way Gonzague Van Bervesseles sang "Sylvie" in Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (2018) so much that I recorded it so I could share it with you.
4) Dead Rae
An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by Arvo Pärt.
5) Can't Recall
An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by Ran Blake.
6) Don lived upstairs from the Blue Light
An excerpt from from a work in progress. Music by Mute Duo.
7) Flyover
An excerpt from a work in progress. Music by the Dick Slessig Combo.
8) "Song of Myself"—Canto 27
I read Canto 27 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" as part of a celebration of his 201st birthday. The entire poem, read by many people, here.
9) If a Tree Falls...
What happens when you set up a book talk and no one shows up? Paul Durica (of the Newberry Library) and I talk about Soviet Stamps and the writing racket to a bunch of empty chairs in the secret back ...Show More
10) Return to The Green Arcade
I make my triumphant return to The Green Arcade in San Francisco and discuss Soviet Stamps, art, cabdriving, and other related and unrelated topics with Ben Terrall (Namaste, Motherfucker!)