Excerpt of To Remain Nameless and interview on The Other Voices
On the Downtown Writers Jam Podcast with Brad King
“Praise the Mutilated World” – Clare Needham on To Remain Nameless
The poet and novelist Clare Needham wrote about my book “hurtling into the present” for the journal Apofenie, devoted to “the search for hidden meanings in unrelated patterns.”
Interview: Must Read Fiction
Erin Popelka interviewed me from Spokane, WA, for her series Must Read Fiction:
Ron Slate on To Remain Nameless
A review of the novel for On the Seawall:
Harvard Book Store Talk with Claire Messud
The Harvard Book Store organized a reading and discussion with my friend and former professor, the fabulous novelist Claire Messud on Friday, July 10th. Recording is here.
What is the Role of Writers in Times of Crisis?
A conversation with Ishmael Beah, the inaugural event organized by Bookshop.org.
More information and registration is here.
Revaluing Combat: Brad Fox’s Bookshelf
Bookshop.org asked me to name a few books I read while writing To Remain Nameless. I sent them Fanny Howe, Darius James, Charles Ludlam, Clarice Lispector, and al-Hariri. I wanted to add Anita Sullivan’s Seventh Dragon and Dambudzo Marechera’s House of Hunger, but both are criminally out of print.
The list is here.
ArabLit Quarterly TV: Meet the Banu Sasan
From Rabat to Tarapoto, Marcia and I discussing Abu Dulaf’s ode to thievery and beggary and charlatanry and blasphemy, which is in the ALQ Crime Issue.
The video is here.
Let’s Talk Books, with Christina Chiu and Toby Muse
On July 7, 2020, Christina Chiu and the New York Writers Workshop invited me and the investigative journalist Toby Muse to present our books. We talked about the drug war, the war on terror, fiction vs nonfiction, and gin vs tonic.
The recording is here:
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