Episode 107: Eileen Myles
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Rachel visits poet, novelist, former presidential candidate, and “institution of one” Eileen Myles at their apartment home in the East Village. The two discuss Myles’ latest projects, For Now and the anthology Pathetic Literature, as well as fate, what it means to be famous for being an outsider, the epic novel, what it means to occupy a form, gentrification, bad landlords, good neighbors, making a home, awards, and gratitude co-existing with the state of wanting more.
Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen Myles
I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotexte, 2009)
Tow, with Artist Larry R. Collins (Lospecchio Press, 2005)
Skies (Black Sparrow Press, 2001)
On My Way (Faux Press, 2001)
School of Fish (Black Sparrow Press, 1997)
Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1995)
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotexte, 1995), ed. with Liz Kotz
Not Me (Semiotexte, 1991)
Also Referenced
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
Diane Wolkstein & Samual Noah Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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