Ep. 79: Christian Kiefer & Christopher Boucher

TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books Podcast

Christian Kiefer had great reservations about writing his beautiful new book, PHANTOMS. He tells James how he found the story, and the steps he took to tell it. They also talk about capturing bear consciousness, being haunted by one's own work, finding joy in music and writing, and those troublesome flugelhornists. And then our old friend Christopher Boucher discusses his new novel, BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD.

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Christian Kiefer: https://www.facebook.com/christian.kiefer.9/

Buy PHANTOMS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780871404817

Also by: THE INFINITE TIDES, THE ANIMALS, ONE DAY SOON TIME WILL HAVE NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE.

Christian and James discuss:

Matt Salesses

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson

Jamil Zaki

Deena Drewis

Nouvella Books

ORIENTALISM by Edward Said

CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM by Edward Said

NOTHING EVER DIES by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Vintage Contemporaries

Tobias Wolff

Robert Stone

Richard Ford

Tim O'Brien

SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron

ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner

Henry James

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Emile Zola

Lauren Groff

San Francisco Zoo

GHOST TANTRAS by Michael McClure

Benjamin Percy

Ingmar Bergman

Andrei Tarkovsky

THE WHITE DEATH by Gabriel Urza

THE LAST REPATRIATE by Matthew Salesses

THE SENSUALIST by Daniel Torday

HOW TO SHAKE THE OTHER MAN by Derek Palacio

IF YOU'RE NOT YET LIKE ME by Eden Lepucki

FLY-OVER STATE by Emma Straub

A FAMILIAR BEAST by Panio Gianopoulos

Miles Davis

John Coltrane

WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS, Lawrence English

Nicholas Brittell

THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS, William Basinksi

Lyle Lovett

George Jones

JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson

PURE HOLLYWOOD by Christine Schutt

Barry Hannah

GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (documentary)

John Keene

Magnolia Electric Company

Jason Molina

CANADA by Richard Ford

Sewanee

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Christopher Boucher: http://www.christopherboucher.net/

Buy BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781612197579

Also by: HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE, GOLDEN DELICIOUS.

James and Christopher discuss:

Melville House

Kurt Vonnegut

THE PARIS REVIEW

Ben Greenman

Boston College

Oregon State

"People Like That Are The Only People Here" by Lorrie Moore

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

"Araby" by James Joyce

Looney Tunes

Elmer Fudd

Bugs Bunny

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