Caryl Pagel's guest appearances

Caryl Pagel

The Avid Reader Show

Past Forward

Sarah Gerard

Rebecca Makkai

Benjamin Franklin

Arlie Hochschild

Gillian Flynn

Jeff Goins

Lori Gottlieb

Amy Stewart

Pico Iyer

Sebastian Junger

Joel Arquillos

Arkady Martine

James Joyce

Caitlin Doughty

James Madison

OwlTail

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional; the ghosts—literal and figurative—that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives. Often containing reflections on the art of storytelling, Caryl Pagel’s essays blend memoir, research, and reflection, and are driven by a desire to observe connections between the visual and the invisible. The narrator of Pagel’s essays explores each enigma or encounter (a football coach’s faked death, the faces of women walking, historical  accounts of hallucinations, a city’s public celebration gone wrong) as an intellectual detective ascending a labyrinthine tower of clues in  pursuit of a solution to an unreachable problem: always curious, and  with a sense of profound wonder. Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a sprawling, highly associative consideration of the ways in which the observed material world recalls us to larger narrative and aesthetic truths. Interspersed with documentary-style photographs, Pagel’s first collection of prose is a radiant, obsessive investigation into the mysteries at the center of our seemingly mundane lives.

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional; the ghosts—literal and figurative—that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives. Often containing reflections on the art of storytelling, Caryl Pagel’s essays blend memoir, research, and reflection, and are driven by a desire to observe connections between the visual and the invisible. The narrator of Pagel’s essays explores each enigma or encounter (a football coach’s faked death, the faces of women walking, historical accounts of hallucinations, a city’s public celebration gone wrong) as an intellectual detective ascending a labyrinthine tower of clues in pursuit of a solution to an unreachable problem: always curious, and with a sense of profound wonder. Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a sprawling, highly associative consideration of the ways in which the observed material world recalls us to larger narrative and aesthetic truths. Interspersed with documentary-style photographs, Pagel’s first collection of prose is a radiant, obsessive investigation into the mysteries at the center of our seemingly mundane lives.

Episode 605: Caryl Pagel - Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing

Episode 604: 1Q1A Caryl Pagel - Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing

Daniel Khalastchi

Today we're connected with Caryl Pagel, Editress-in-Chief of Rescue Press, and Daniel Khalastchi, Co-Founder and Managing Editor. Caryl is the author of Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (Factory Hallow Press), and Twice Told (H_NGM_N Books), editor of jubilat, Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and faculty member at the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA). Daniel is the author of Manoleria (Tupelo Press) and Tradition (McSweeney’s) and Associate Director of the University of Iowa’s Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing.  Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Caryl Pagel and Daniel Khalastchi

Today we're connected with Caryl Pagel, Editress-in-Chief of <a href="http://www.rescuepress.co" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rescue Press</a>, and Daniel Khalastchi, Co-Founder and Managing Editor. Caryl is the author of Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (<a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Factory Hallow Press</a>), and Twice Told (<a href="http://www.h-ngm-n.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">H_NGM_N Books</a>), editor of <a href="http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">jubilat</a>, Director of the <a href="http://www.csupoetrycenter.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cleveland State University Poetry Center</a>, and faculty member at the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (<a href="http://neomfa.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">NEOMFA</a>). Daniel is the author of Manoleria (<a href="https://www.tupelopress.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Tupelo Press</a>) and Tradition (<a href="http://mcsweeneys.net" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">McSweeney’s</a>) and Associate Director of the University of Iowa’s <a href="http://magidcenter.uiowa.edu/about" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing</a>. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Caryl Pagel and Daniel Khalastchi

Caryl Pagel and Daniel Khalastchi