58: Gian DiTrapano on NY TYRANT (since 2005)

NAPLES — Giancarlo DiTrapano is the founder, editor, and publisher of New York Tyrant. The magazine initially, starting in 2005. And then of Tyrant Books, starting in 2010. I spoke with him in his apartment in Naples two days ago, before flying back to the states yesterday. After flying out there 11 days ago. He wrote for Vice for a minute during the early tens and has ran the workshop Mors Tua Vita Mea, with the writer Chelsea Hodson, in Sezze, Italy since 2015. He grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and spent many years in New York City before moving out to Italy five years ago. We talk about how he came into the game with the magazine and the imprint, what he’s psyched about writing-wise now, a whole bunch of stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed ripping this convo and running it back. NY Tyrant: https://nytyrant.com # POD CONTENTS 6 min - pod start: G dissing and me tryna defend Ferrante lmaoo 8 min - Of Love and Other Demons by Garcia Marquez 9 min - Autoportrait by Edouard Leve / story versus bars/syntax 11 min - translated versus untranslated 11.5 min - G: “We should be recording this.” Me: “Bro it’s recording.” 12 min - coffee ready 13 min - move from kitchen to living room 13 min - McClanahan , bars v. Voice 14 min - on Liveblog (2018) by Megan Boyle 19 min - ‘prep’ = Preparation for the Next Life (2014) by Atticus Lish and ‘shapiro’ = Supremacist (2016) by Dave Shapiro 22 min - story on linking w Atticus Lish 26 min - How to Live is bigger than How to Write 27 min - Louise Gluck 32 min - Babak Lakghomi 38 min - "everything important in literature is about Death" 41 min - on mimicry / imitation 46 min - on exclamation points / nietzsche ecce homo 48 min - Lutz 49 min - Tyrant Vol 3 No 2 / young Diane Lane "the Outsiders" 55 min - story of G pulling up to nyc / FSG 59 min - putting out the first Tyrant mag / Sheila Heti 1 hr 2 min - DFW 1 hr 3 min - “all these lit mags started bc the Internet” 1 hr 6 min - Supremacist by David Shapiro 1 hr 12 min - drugs according to music era 1 hr 18 min - first linking w Castro 1 hr 21 min - what/who G hype on rn / Honor Levy 1 hr 22 min - Christopher Kennedy 1 hr 29 min - mors tua vita mea 1 hr 37 min - on how relevant or not relevant being out here for writing 1 hr 40 min - How the infrastructure of Literature upheld Intro song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1YnDZXJ7Dj0Uk9Pqu4tdAX?si=evQ3qjohRo2VxpXVIQwtig Sean Thor Conroe https://mobile.twitter.com/stconroe lives in Harlem.