The Collidescope Podcast

This story is about a housewife who contemplates the dead insects riddling her home. Revulsion turns into curiosity turns into obsession turns into a sense of totemic mysticism. Purchase a copy of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9781590177648 A review of The Tunnel : https://thecollidescope.com/2022/01/22/the-tunnel-by-william-h-gass/ A review of Willie...

In this episode, the writer Garielle Lutz and host George Salis discuss turning the quotidian into art, the epistolary work of writers, the limits of vocabulary and the mispronunciation of words, how literary voices are extinguished in academic institutions, the lack of a serious readership, her fascination with individual sentences, her sense of bodily abstraction and how it has affected her life...

In this episode, the writer Lee Siegel and host George Salis discuss Siegel's prolific work, his obsession with Orientalism, magic on the streets and on the page, Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux, the allure of audiobooks, his recent forays into painting, fatalism within literature and without, and much more. Lee Siegel is the Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii....

In this episode, the hermetic writer REYoung and host George Salis discuss the “Ponzi scheme” of Dalkey Archive, Young’s experiences as a student of the wonderful novelist Paul West, the perpetuity of Christmas, the emptiness of branding, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and The Pale King , Latin American and Greek fiction, and much more. REYoung was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and curren...

In this episode, the writer Barton Smock and host George Salis discuss the essence of poetry, death metal, the fear of god, the state of contemporary poetry, and more. Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH, with his wife and four children. He is the author of numerous self-published works. Author of Ghost Arson (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018) and Wasp, gasp . (Incunabula, 2023). Buy Wasp, gasp here:...

In this episode, the writer Michael Brodsky and host George Salis discuss suffering in the writer’s external world and the internal world, reaching toward perfection and the impossibility of containing the cosmos in a novel, the necessity/obligation of creating art versus abstaining from it, how words have a right to life, the most important book Michael has read, his 1,200-page magnum opus Invidi...

George Salis and guest Henry Gelinas discuss the invisible book Sweet Adversity by Donald Newlove. Henry Gelinas is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, and writer from Charlotte, North Carolina. Purchase the Sweet Adversity here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578423890 Purchase Those Drinking Days here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578362212 Purchase The Painter Gabriel here: https://bookshop.o...

George Salis and guest Jacob Pascoe discuss the invisible book Thou Worm Jacob by Mark Jay Mirsky. Jacob Pascoe is a writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. His work spans narrative film and music videos to prose and essays. He studied film production and literature at the University of British Columbia. His website is here . Pascoe's review of A Death: Notes on a Suicide by Zalman Shneour:...

George Salis and guest Matthew Taylor Blais discuss the invisible book Movieland by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, translated by Ángel Flores. Matthew Taylor Blais is a filmmaker currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Buy de la Serna’s Movieland here: https://bookshop.org/a/81719/9780578336817 Subscribe to Sital Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/c/SitalCinema Support The Collidescope’s efforts via Patreon...

In this episode, the writer Alan Singer and host George Salis talk about whether or not an MFA is useful, the increasingly stifling atmosphere of universities, the question of free will versus ‘acting’, the primitive muses of violence and sex, film adaptions, dealing with doubt as a writer, Alan’s fruitful friendship with Joseph McElroy, his unfortunately failed attempt to befriend Djuna Barnes, a...

The story of a species of creature known as oono, so massive it can't be seen in full, and the ignook couple who is trying to start a family in the arctic wilderness. Their only hope is for the aspiring father to connect with an oono spirit even if it means deceiving him, even if it means becoming more than human. Interview with Patricia Eakins: https://thecollidescope.com/2019/10/18/imaginar...

The culinary stand-off between a potential son-in-law and a potential mother-in-law from hell, with hilarious results. This story is from Early Stories (Tough Poets Press). Beyond the Zero Podcast with guest George Salis: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hm5RJQZrqTuuAtynNgFcW?si=33HWHqUDRZqDx_NE77rlwQ&dl_branch=1&nd=1 Tough Poets Press: https://toughpoets.com/ Interview with Alexander The...

Welcome to The Collidescope Podcast! I’m George Salis, founder and editor of The Collidescope , an online publication dedicated to promoting innovative fiction. I started this podcast as another way to promote the kind of writing I love. For my first choice, Joseph McElroy was kind enough to give me permission to read the title story from his collection Night Soul , which was published by Dalkey A...