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Beyond The ZeroJohn Pistelli - MAJOR ARCANAhttps://johnpistelli.comBUY THE BOOK FROM :https://beltpublishing.com/products/major-arcana-1Current reads Rainer Maria RilkeKafka Ross Barkan - Glass Century Stop All the Clocks - Noah KuminThe Unmapping - Denise S. RobbinsDesert Island Books Shakespeare UlyssesAmerican Literature Norton Anthology Volume 2 Underworld - DeLillo The Magic Mountain - Mann2025-06-2349 min
The Coode Street PodcastEpisode 671: Books We're Looking Forward to in 2025Each year, we sit down and look at the year ahead and, inevitably, end up discussing the books we are looking forward to. This year we invited long time friends of the podcast Charlie Jane Anders and Ian Mond to join us.
During a lively conversation it became clear that, no matter what else is happening in the world, there's a lot of wonderful work coming out in 2025, and this only scratches the surface of it.
As always, our thanks to Charlie Jane and Ian for making the time to join us.
As...2025-02-021h 03
Mars Review of Books PodcastJohn Pistelli & Noah Kumin on Tarot, Magic, Poetry, US Election, & AcademiaThank you Ehud Neor, Gnocchic Apocryphon, Henry Begler, Quinn MacRorie, Adam Pearson, and many others for tuning into my live video with John Pistelli! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsreview.org/subscribe2025-01-231h 02
Beyond The ZeroEnd of Year Show Part 7Bram Presser
Best of 2024
Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Elaine Kraf - The Princess of 72nd Street
Hospital - Sanya Rushdi
Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot
Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova
Ghost Mountain - Rónán Hession
The Singularity - Balsam Karam
Woodworm - Layla Martinez
Boy with a Black Rooster - Stefanie Vor Schulte
On The Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
The Holy and The...2024-12-253h 12
The Things Not NamedPierre Bourdieu Was Blowing Down the StreetFriends,I have a few things left to say about facts and feelings after last week, but I’ll let those thoughts simmer a little longer. Today I’m sharing what will likely be the last of my 2024 interviews. John Pistelli is the author of the forthcoming novel Major Arcana (Belt Publishing, 2025) and the bestelling Substack Grand Hotel Abyss, home of a regular newsletter called Weekly Readings and the literary podcast The Invisible College. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota and has been writing and teaching for almost two decad...2024-11-1936 min
Eminent AmericansWanderers Above the Sea of Digital Fog: A state of the discourse episodeReading List:* The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms, by Ross Barkan* Notes Toward a New Romanticism, by Ted Gioia* The Invisible College: Modern British Literature, by John Pistelli* The Three Segments of American Culture, by Ross Barkan* Major Arcana: Preface, by John PistelliMy guests on the show today are writers Ross Barkan and John Pistelli, and they’re here to help me launch something new on the podcast, which is a series of shorter episodes that are dedicated to ta...2024-02-291h 05
Eminent AmericansThe Souls of Wesley YangReading list for episode:* “John Pistelli,” by Blake Smith* “The Souls of Yellow Folk, by Wesley Yang,” by John Pistelli* “The Souls of Yellow Folk—A Review,” by Daniel Oppenheimer* “Platonic Complex: Why Do the Intellectuals Rage?"“ by John Pistelli* “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” by Wesley YangCritic, novelist, and sorta-academic John Pistelliand I have two things on our agenda for this episode of the podcast. The first is Wesley Yang, the author of the 2018 essay collection The Souls of Yellow Folk and arguably the single most influential write...2023-07-131h 11
Eminent AmericansThe Fall of the White American GayEpisode Reading List:* From Queer to Gay to Queer, James Kirchick* How Hannah Arendt’s Zionism Helped Create American Gay Identity, Blake Smith* When the Pope Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie, That’s Ahmari, James Kirchick* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Big Fat Nonbinary Mistake, Blake Smith* Are Conservatives the New Queers?, Blake Smith* Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk, John PistelliI have a working hypothesis that no one has suffered a more dramatic decline in a certain kind of social status...2023-05-311h 05
Grand Podcast AbyssEp. 5. The Art of the NovelHenry James. “The Art of the Novel.” Romance vs. novel. Experience is everything. The necessity of cultural appropriation. Making love to the language. Free indirect discourse. Graduate school. Age-appropriate novels. The Bostonians. Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow fighting over Taylor Lorenz. The Ambassadors. The eroticism of difficult prose. “Live all you can.” Henry James at the end of history. The 1990s as a Jamesian decade. A dramatic reading from John Pistelli’s end-of-history ’90s novel, The Class of 2000.Note: my essay on James’s Ambassadors. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this w...2022-02-221h 15
Grand Podcast AbyssEp. 5. The Art of the NovelHenry James. “The Art of the Novel.” Romance vs. novel. Experience is everything. The necessity of cultural appropriation. Making love to the language. Free indirect discourse. Graduate school. Age-appropriate novels. The Bostonians. Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow fighting over Taylor Lorenz. The Ambassadors. The eroticism of difficult prose. “Live all you can.” Henry James at the end of history. The 1990s as a Jamesian decade. A dramatic reading from John Pistelli’s end-of-history ’90s novel, The Class of 2000. Note: my essay on James’s Ambassadors.2022-02-221h 15