Babak Lakghomi, author of Floating Notes (Tyrant, 2018) and South (Dundern, 2023), on working with the late great Giancarlo DiTrapano, David Markson, fragments, friction, literature as a revolutionary act, Proust, and autofiction.
1 min - on working with Gian / Tyrant
6 min - on South (Dundern Press)
7 min - on David Markson
8 min - fragments
9 min - archetypes / Edith Grossman
9.5 - Alvaro Mutis, Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (1995)
10 min - Nada (1945) by Carmen Laforet
14 min - writing as a revolutionary act (vs books as commodities)
17 min - what Literature is / Kafka
23 min - Solenoid by Mircia Cartarescu
26 min - the Courageous act of Literature
27 min - Proust / To the Lighthouse
29 min - Mary McCarthy
30 min - on autofiction