In addition to being a class act and a great writer, Brad Listi is a total natural as an interviewer. It's a hard thing to be good at, but he's nailed it over and over at his Other People podcast, with guests ranging from Cheryl Strayed and Susan Orlean to Cal Morgan and Roxane Gay to Molly Ringwald and... Yeah, I don't know who to put up there with Molly Ringwald. Point being: huge thanks to Brad for inviting me on the show.
September 14, 2013, 6:54 p.m.Categories: Any Deadly Thing, China, Interviews, Peru, Translation, Travel
Many thanks to Mike Meginnis for his time and terrific questions, and to HTML Giant for the sweet location. In his intro Mike says that you should skip the ending, where the internet connection starts to disintegrate and we can't hear what the other person is saying, but I think it's the VERY BEST PART. Bonus points to all those who catch me saying "e-book" when I mean "e-reader," and pronouncing "rock" weirdly, and being bad at math.
August 16, 2013, 8:35 a.m.Categories: Any Deadly Thing, China, Interviews, Nothing in the World, Pacazo, Peru, Politics
Many thanks to Pasha Malla for the terrific questions, and to Rebecca Rubenstein and Stephen Elliott for the prime real estate.
July 28, 2013, 2:25 p.m.Categories: Any Deadly Thing, Interviews, Peru, Short Stories
Many thanks to Chris Narozny for reading (and recommending) Pacazo: “Roy Kesey’s Pacazo offers just about everything you could ever think to love in a novel: a narrator with a keen mind and a messy life; paragraphs that, structurally, move like sonnets; and a clearly delineated plot serving as a kind of mooring post for digressions that, in true Cervantean fashion, are not digressions at all but rather the real substance of the book... This is the best novel I’ve read in a long while.”
April 11, 2012, 11:41 a.m.Categories: Novels, Pacazo, Peru, Review
Still ten days away from going live in London, but Pacazo just got its first major review there, by David Annand at The Daily Telegraph.
Great big thanks to Joseph Riippi for asking some terrific questions about Pacazo, and to Molly Gaudry for giving those questions, and even some answers, a home at The Lit Pub.
December 8, 2011, 3:48 p.m.Categories: History, Interviews, Pacazo, Peru
Kind words for Pacazo at The Kenyon Review--many thanks to Christian TeBordo.
December 1, 2011, 12:27 a.m.Categories: Litmags, Pacazo, Peru
Many thanks to Christopher Vaughan for the good questions, and to Bookslut for the snazzy real estate.
August 1, 2011, 12:34 p.m.Categories: China, Interviews, Pacazo, Peru, Short Stories
A very thoughtful review by Philip Graham at Inside Higher Ed.
Pacazo well-treated by Katrina Denza.
