61: Brad Phillips on ESSAYS AND FICTIONS (2018)

TORONTO / NYC — Brad Phillips is a writer and artist from Toronto. He is the author of Essays and Fictions (Tyrant, 2018). I enjoyed this book a lot. I felt it was courageous, funny, intimate, deceptively sweet, and formally inventive. Here is a link to the book: https://www.nytyrant.com/products/essays-and-fictions-by-brad-phillips . Here is a link to the recent story he published on Muumuu House that we reference: http://muumuuhouse.com/bp.03feb2021.html . Here is a link to a NYT thing shouting out his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brad___phillips/?hl=en ): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/artists-instagram-coronavirus.html POD CONTENTS: 2 min - pod start / how Brad prepped for this pod 7 min - how Brad started painting / doing the art 10 min - how Brad feels about Essays and Fictions now 13 min - “Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell.” - Benjamin 15 min - “Write from the end of the world” 16 min - desperation vs self sabotage 19 min - whether or not “doing better” having written the book 21 min - things Brad does to “do better” (physically) 24 min - dealing w trauma thru the body 27 min - do it for the ones who need it 31 min - “boundaries” in autofiction 35 min - why writing presented by a narrator who share’s author’s name interesting 39 min - deja vu / “intuition is god” 42 min - writing is less about writing a lot than it is about intuiting when it’s Time to write 45 min - is human connection possible 47 min - everything is performance and that’s ok 52 min - the self is a story so I don’t feel weird writing stories about a self I am now 56 min - making yourself a dumb animal to be ok 59 min - “write for pleasure publish for money” pushkin 1 hr - to share or not to share 1 hr 3 min - is writing helpful 1 hr 4 min - Danny from “The Barista the Rooster & Me” 1 hr 6 min - drugs # Sean Thor Conroe lives in Harlem. http://1storyhaus.com/index.html