56: Nicolette Polek on IMAGINARY MUSEUMS (2020)

DMV / NYC — Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) is her first book. I saw Nicolette read from this collection a couple times early this year, and reread it a couple times this past fortnight. Buy Imaginary Museums: https://softskull.com/dd-product/imaginary-museums/ POD CONTENTS 3 min - pod start 4 min - small rooms big rooms card rooms basements 11 min - on “Winners” - https://magazine.nytyrant.com/winners/ 14 min - on how life in Slovakia vs. US 19 min - “Field Notes” / Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch 21 min - Krasznahorkai 24 min - on the traditions Nicolette partaking in 25 min - The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti 27 min - Intimate Lighting, dir. Ivan Passer 28 min - on making art in communism 31 min - experience working with Soft Skull 33 min - on how these stories written 36 min - me repeatedly belaboring “the Nature” 37 min - Thomas Tallis / Abba 39 min - on what Nicolette working on now / Marta Becket 41 min - solitude vs. sharing. Kierkegaard definition of a saint: “to will the one thing” 42 min - subsequent books as answers to questions posed in previous ones 44 min - female eels 47 min - on Waldorf 55 min - Rings of Saturn by Sebald 57 min - mycology – Sean Thor Conroe, http://1storyhaus.com