Episode 107: Eileen Myles

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Rachel visits poet, novelist, former presidential candidate, and “institution of one” Eileen Myles at their apartment home in the East Village. The two discuss Myles’ latest projects, For Now and the anthology Pathetic Literature, as well as fate, what it means to be famous for being an outsider, the epic novel, what it means to occupy a form, gentrification, bad landlords, good neighbors, making a home, awards, and gratitude co-existing with the state of wanting more.

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Myles performing in Greece.

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Myles with artist Hannah Beerman at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Honey in Manhattan, NY.

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Honey in Marfa, TX with horses Dusty and Tween.

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Myles performing at Wicked Lady with musicians Steve Gunn and Ryan Sawyer.

Books and Selected Other Work by Eileen Myles

• Pathetic Literature, ed. (Grove Press, 2022)

• For Now (Yale University Press, 2020)

• evolution (Grove Press, 2018)

• Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (Grove Press, 2017)

• I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014 (Ecco Press, 2015)

• Snowflake/Different Streets (Wave Books, 2012)

• Inferno: A Poet's Novel (OR Books, 2010)

• The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotexte, 2009)

• Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007)

• Tow, with Artist Larry R. Collins (Lospecchio Press, 2005)

• Skies (Black Sparrow Press, 2001)

• On My Way (Faux Press, 2001)

• Cool For You (Soft Skull Press, 2000)

• School of Fish (Black Sparrow Press, 1997)

• Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 1995)

• The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotexte, 1995), ed. with Liz Kotz

• Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 1994)

• Not Me (Semiotexte, 1991)
  

Also Referenced

• Patchin Place

• Villa Albertine

• Constance Debré

• Grove Press

• Marfa, Texas

• Henry Miller

• Franz Kafka

• Simone Weil

• The New Yorker

• Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman

• Zinc Bar

• CAConrad

• Jack Halberstam

• Karl Ove Knausgård

• Bagley Wright Lectures

• Wave Books

• Graywolf Press

• Julie Carr

• Counterpath Press

• Diane Wolkstein

• Monkey King

• Diane Wolkstein & Samual Noah Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth

• Anselm Berrigan

• Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette

• Jorie Graham

• Bernadette Mayer

• Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

• Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

• David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

• Moyra Davey

• Peter Hujar

• Rebecca Solnit

• Patti Smith

• Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

• David Antin

• Tabboo!

• Marley Freeman

• Hannah Beerman

• Djuna Barnes

• Amber Hollibaugh

• Bruce Springstein

• Andy Warhol

• Joseph Bueys

• New Journalism

• Tom Wolfe

• Joan Didion

• Gertrude Stein

• Allen Ginsberg

• Jack Pearson

• Johnnie Rae

• Alex Katz

• Guggenheim Fellowship

• William Carlos Williams

• Robert Mapplethorpe

• The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

• Lewis Warsh

• James Schuyler

• Wayne Koestenbaum

• C. D. Wright

• Poetry Project Newsletter

• Segue Reading Series

• New York University

• Lisa Cholodenko

• MacArthur Genius Grant

• The (Paris) Thanksgiving Manifesto

• Chantal Akerman

• Gus Van Sant

• Robert Frank

• Tanya Wexler

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