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Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 5
\nGreg Gerke – Sound Before Story<\/a><\/p>\n

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To celebrate the publication of Middle C<\/a>\"\", the new novel by literary legend William Gass<\/a>, I sat down with writer Greg Gerke<\/a>, who interviewed Gass for Tin House<\/em> literary magazine. We talked about Gass’ position in the postmodern literary tradition (as it were), what Greg learned over the course of reading much of Gass’ writings and interviewing The Great Man, what it’s like to construct a literary monument to horror, which authors Greg discovered through Gass’ essays over the years, how you can’t judge a man by his (roommate’s) bookshelf, why Gass holds self-publishing in disdain, and how one can build a powerful literary career by putting Sound Before Story.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out our archives<\/a> for more great talks! And buy the issue of Tin House<\/a> with Greg’s interview with Gass, while you’re at it!<\/p>\n

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About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greg Gerke<\/strong>‘s\u00a0fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review Online, Denver Quarterly, and Mississippi Review<\/em>. He’s the author of the short story collection, There’s Something Wrong with Sven<\/a>\"\". You can read his work and find links to his criticism at greggerke.com<\/a> and Big Other<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Life’s a Gas\u00a0by T-Rex. The conversation was recorded at Greg Gerke’s apartment in New York City, on a pair of AT2020 mics<\/a>\"\", feeding into a Zoom H4n recorder<\/a>\"\". I recorded the other material on a Samson Meteor Mic USB Studio Microphone<\/a>\"\" into Audacity.\u00a0All editing and processing was done in Garage Band.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 5 Greg Gerke – Sound Before Story To celebrate the publication of Middle C, the new novel by literary legend William Gass, I sat down with writer Greg Gerke, who interviewed Gass for Tin House literary magazine. We talked about Gass’ position in the postmodern literary tradition (as it … <\/p>\n

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