Episode 38: Brandon Taylor
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Brandon Taylor is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of my favorite contemporary writers, Brandon\'s short stories are marvelously crafted, understated and emotionally charged, while his personal essays and cultural critique are insightful and often lyrical\\u2014all of it is just a joy to read. In today\'s conversation, Brandon and I talked about his work and his process, how he often finds himself inventing around the margins of the stories he takes in, and how and why he always resists the reductive take. For the second segment, Brandon chose expectation as his topic, both the excitement and terror of one\'s own anticipation of the future, but also the expectations others can put on us.
(Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.)
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Show Notes:
- Brandon Taylor
- Brandon Taylor - We\\u2019re Just People
- Brandon Taylor - Frites
- Brandon Taylor - Run
- Mavis Gallant
- Brandon Taylor - There Is No Secret to Writing People Who Do Not Look Like You
- Gregory Heisler
- Iowa Writers\\u2019 Workshop
- Catapult Community - TinyLetter of the Month: Brandon Taylor, \\u201cHours\\u201d
- Brandon Taylor - Virgin Wool (TinyLetter)
- Helena Fitzgerald
- Alexander Chee
- Roxane Gay
- Alexander Chee - The Queen of the Night
- Ted Chiang
- Certain Women
- Kelly Reichardt
- Maile Meloy