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Episode 80 - Jessica Anthony, author of The Most

Listen to this episode from Concavity Show on Spotify. For episode 80, we welcome Jessica Anthony back to the show. She has long been one of our favorite writers and she returns this month with a new novel titled The Most (out July 30 from Little Brown).   Jessica Anthony is the author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel Enter the Aardvark, a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction. Her debut, The Convalescent, won the inaugural McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award in 2004. A recipient of the Creative Capital Award in Literature, Anthony wrote The Most while guarding the Mária Valéria Bridge in Štúrovo, Slovakia. She lives in Portland, Maine.   Preorder the book on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-most-jessica-anthony/20862156?ean=9780316576376 You can see some of the upcoming events for the novel here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/jessica-anthony/   Contact Dave & Matt:  Email - [email protected] Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow Threadless Merch Store - https://concavityshow.threadless.com/  

Translation - The International David Foster Wallace Society

Infinite Jest Translator’s Forum Sponsored by the International David Foster Wallace Society Sunday, December 10, 2023 11am Austin (CST), 2pm Rio, 6pm Zurich, 7pm Athens, 8:30pm Tehran Via Zoom Open to the public: https://sunyorange.zoom.us/j/95305161302   Panelists:  Kostas Kaltsas (Greek) Ulrich Blumenbach (German) Igor Cvijanovic (Serbian) Can Kantarci (Turkish) Moeen Farrokhi (Farsi) Vasco Teles de Menezes […]

Translation - The International David Foster Wallace Society

Infinite Jest Translator’s Forum Sponsored by the International David Foster Wallace Society Sunday, December 10, 2023 11am Austin (CST), 2pm Rio, 6pm Zurich, 7pm Athens, 8:30pm Tehran Via Zoom Open to the public: https://sunyorange.zoom.us/j/95305161302   Panelists:  Kostas Kaltsas (Greek) Ulrich Blumenbach (German) Igor Cvijanovic (Serbian) Can Kantarci (Turkish) Moeen Farrokhi (Farsi) Vasco Teles de Menezes […]

Episode 74 - David Lipsky, author of The Parrot and the Igloo

Listen to this episode from Concavity Show on Spotify. In this episode with speak with bestselling writer and journalist David Lipsky. To David Foster Wallace fans, Lipsky is, of course, familiar as the author of Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself which was the basis of the 2015 film The End of the Tour. David Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, and many others. He contributes to NPR's All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award. He's the author of the novel The Art Fair; a collection, Three Thousand Dollars; and the bestselling nonfiction book Absolutely American, which was a Time magazine Best Book of the Year. His new book,  The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial is out now from Norton. The book examines the roots of climate change in popular thought, reaching back to the invention of electricity and the global impacts of technology. Lipsky profiles the scientists and characters who have taken up climate science and those who work to deny the effects of carbon and warming. The New York Times described the book, saying Lipsky "spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment." The extensive notes to the book, which he mentions in this episode, can be found at https://www.theparrotandtheigloo.com/   (Thank you to Kory Hill for technical assistance.)