Jim Gauer's guest appearances

Jim Gauer

Concavity Show

Skylight Books Podcast Series

Steve Erickson

Sean Fennessey

Jason Concepcion

Shea Serrano

Mallory Rubin

Chuck Klosterman

Benjamin Franklin

Jon Hamm

Kate Schatz

Miriam Klein Stahl

Michelle Tea

Matt Bell

Sarah Ruhl

Amy Stewart

Joanna Angel

OwlTail

Greg Gerke

It's an otherwise ordinary week in April, the week after Easter, 2009. Late in the week, a man wakes up in Guanajuato, Mexico, with his knowledge intact, but with no memory of who he is, or how he came to live in Guanajuato. Early in the week, a venture capitalist sits at his desk in an office tower in Los Angeles, attempting to complete his business memoirs, but troubled by the fact that a recent deal appears to be some sort of money-laundering scheme. And in the middle of the week, just before dawn on April 15, two gunmen arrive at an El Paso motel to retrieve a duffel bag stuffed full of currency, and eliminate the man who brought it to El Paso.Thus begins the three-stranded narrative of Novel Explosives, a fiendishly funny search for identity that travels through the worlds of venture finance, the Juarez drug wars, and the latest innovations in thermobaric weaponry, a joyride of a novel with only one catch: the deeper into the book you go, the more dangerous it gets. At the palpitating heart of the novel, at its roiling fundamental core, lies an agonizing reappraisal of the way the U.S behaves in the world, a project that grows more urgent by the day.  Author Jim Gauer is in conversation with writer Greg Gerke.   Produced by Maddie Gobbo &amp; Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

It's an otherwise ordinary week in April, the week after Easter, 2009. Late in the week, a man wakes up in Guanajuato, Mexico, with his knowledge intact, but with no memory of who he is, or how he came to live in Guanajuato. Early in the week, a venture capitalist sits at his desk in an office tower in Los Angeles, attempting to complete his business memoirs, but troubled by the fact that a recent deal appears to be some sort of money-laundering scheme. And in the middle of the week, just before dawn on April 15, two gunmen arrive at an El Paso motel to retrieve a duffel bag stuffed full of currency, and eliminate the man who brought it to El Paso. Thus begins the three-stranded narrative of <a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781953409027" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Novel Explosives,</a> a fiendishly funny search for identity that travels through the worlds of venture finance, the Juarez drug wars, and the latest innovations in thermobaric weaponry, a joyride of a novel with only one catch: the deeper into the book you go, the more dangerous it gets. At the palpitating heart of the novel, at its roiling fundamental core, lies an agonizing reappraisal of the way the U.S behaves in the world, a project that grows more urgent by the day. Author Jim Gauer is in conversation with writer Greg Gerke. Produced by Maddie Gobbo &amp; Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit <a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/event" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.skylightbooks.com/event</a> for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

SKYLIT: Jim Gauer, "NOVEL EXPLOSIVES" w/ Greg Gerke

David Foster Wallace

In Episode 47, we're joined by Jim Gauer, author of the excellent Novel Explosives, a book you've no doubt heard us mention in recent conversations. Jim is a mathematician, published poet, and self-described as the world's only Marxist venture capitalist.  In this discussion, we cover a range of topics around Jim's book, it's relation to Wallace's sensibilities and Infinite Jest, the dangers of hyper-capitalism, the anxiety of influence, lethality enhancement, and a host of others.  Jim's book can be purchased through your local bookstore (which he most encourages), with the backup plan of online sales (though he implores you to avoid giving Jeff Bezos more money to fuel his space colony dystopia, if possible) - http://zerogrampress.com/2016/10/08/novel-explosives/   Links discussed: Jim's interview with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/jim-gauer-novel-explosives Jim's interview on Eye 94: https://www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/eye-94-4-15-2018-jim-gauer/ Jim's Paris Review poetry: https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/2778/will-this-thought-do-jim-gauer   Contact Dave and Matt: Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/ Email - concavityshow@gmail.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/

In Episode 47, we're joined by Jim Gauer, author of the excellent Novel Explosives, a book you've no doubt heard us mention in recent conversations. Jim is a mathematician, published poet, and self-described as the world's only Marxist venture capitalist.  In this discussion, we cover a range of topics around Jim's book, it's relation to Wallace's sensibilities and Infinite Jest, the dangers of hyper-capitalism, the anxiety of influence, lethality enhancement, and a host of others.  Jim's book can be purchased through your local bookstore (which he most encourages), with the backup plan of online sales (though he implores you to avoid giving Jeff Bezos more money to fuel his space colony dystopia, if possible) - <a href="http://zerogrampress.com/2016/10/08/novel-explosives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://zerogrampress.com/2016/10/08/novel-explosives/</a> Links discussed: Jim's interview with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm: <a href="https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/jim-gauer-novel-explosives" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/jim-gauer-novel-explosives</a> Jim's interview on Eye 94: <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/eye-94-4-15-2018-jim-gauer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/eye-94-4-15-2018-jim-gauer/</a> Jim's Paris Review poetry: <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/2778/will-this-thought-do-jim-gauer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/2778/will-this-thought-do-jim-gauer</a> Contact Dave and Matt: Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow</a> Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/</a> Email - <a href="mailto:concavityshow@gmail.com">concavityshow@gmail.com</a> Patreon - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow</a> Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/</a>

Episode 47 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Jim Gauer, author of Novel Explosives