Rick Harsch: The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas and Corona/Samizdat

Back with another episode after another unexpected break! In this one I talk to Rick Harsch, author of The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas and the man behind Corona/Samizdat Press. We discuss the problem of the every growing TBR, how Rick wrote Eddie Vegas, how he decides what to publish and more!

Books mentioned in this episode:
The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas by Rick Harsch
Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe
The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
El Llano in Flame by Juan Rulfo, translated by Stephen Beechinor
The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism by Chris Lee
Ren by Debroah McFadyen
Omon Raby Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
Send Nudes by Saba Sams
They by Kay Dick
The Man Whose Wife Was The Moon by Mike Russell
America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic by Phillip Freedenberg, illustrated by Jeff Walton
Apastoral, A Mistopia by Lee D. Thompson
A Bended Circuityby Robert S. Stickley
Abel and Cain by Gregor von Rezzori
The Revenant by Michael Punke
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie
Anatomy of a War by Gabriel Kolko
Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard B. Fall
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Journey to the End of the Night by  Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Cynicism Management by Bori Praper
Pendulum Pet by Bori Praper
Verbatim by Jeff Bursey
Unidentified Man at Left of Photo by Jeff Bursey
Orbo and the Godhead by Luke Devlin
Anotomia del Abismo by Roberto Segrov
Bedraggling Grandma with Russia Snow by Joãs Reis
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñero, translated by Francis Riddle
The Seven Madmen, The Flamethrowers by Roberto Arlt
The Appearance of Death to a Hindu Woman by Rick Harsch
The Periplus of Spur Tank Road by Rick Harsch
The Assassination of Olof Palme, A People’s Novel by Rick Harsch
A Brief Life by Juan Carlos Onetti
Schlock: Featuring Russia Cop by David R. Low
This Is Not Who I Am: Our Authenticity Obsession by Emily Bootle
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author, edited by Derek Parker Royal
Our Share Of night by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård

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