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Craftwork Episode 15: Character Case Files, Consecution, & the Acoustics of Language w/ Rod Moody-Corbett

Listen to Craftwork Episode 15: Character Case Files, Consecution, & the Acoustics of Language w/ Rod Moody-Corbett.

In this interview, we chat with Rod Moody-Corbett about tonal dissonance, sponging up influences, writing from memory, and so much more.

Rod Moody-Corbett is an award-winning writer from Newfoundland. His writing has appeared in Socrates on the Beach, The Drift, The Paris Review Daily, and Fiddlehead, among other publications. He is the recipient of the 2022 Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Short Fiction, the University of Calgary’s Kaleidoscope Prize, and the CBC Canada Writes Short Story Prize (People’s Choice Award). He serves as a contributing editor for Canadian Notes and Queries.

Books mentioned in this episode:

  • Experience – Martin Amis
  • Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World; The Hundred Brothers; The Verificationist – Donald Antrim
  • Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolaño
  • Save the Cat! Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody
  • My Education – Susan Choi
  • Underworld – Don DeLillo
  • Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt
  • Erasure – Percival Everett
  • Bad Behavior; Because They Wanted To; Don’t Cry – Mary Gaitskill
  • A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me; Jernigan – David Gates
  • Airships – Barry Hannah
  • The Road Through the Wall – Shirley Jackson
  • Get Shorty; Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard
  • Last Resort – Andrew Lipstein
  • The Sentence is a Lonely Place – Garielle Lutz
  • Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  • The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
  • Lectures on Literature – Vladimir Nabokov
  • A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
  • Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas; Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family – Nicholas Pileggi
  • Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson
  • The Life of the Mind – Christine Smallwood
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
  • The Visiting Privilege – Joy Williams
  • To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  • Sour Heart – Jenny Zhang
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Craftwork S1E9: Eavesdropping, Travel Writing, & Glasgow Kisses w/ Mark Anthony Jarman

Listen to Craftwork S1E9: Eavesdropping, Travel Writing, & Glasgow Kisses w/ Mark Anthony Jarman.

In this interview, we chat with Mark Anthony Jarman about hockey fiction, deadwood words, finding stories in newspaper clippings, and so much more.

Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Touch Anywhere to Begin, Czech Techno, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. Burn Man, published in 2023 by Biblioasis, was an Editors Choice with the New York Times. He was an acquisitions editor for Oberon Press, and introduced many new writers through the Coming Attractions series. He is also the editor of Best Canadian Stories 2023. His novel Salvage King Ya! is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. Widely published in Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia, Jarman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, has taught at the University of Victoria, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the University of New Brunswick. He is also co-editor of the literary journal CAMEL.

Book and poems mentioned in this episode:

  • Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire
  • Study for Obedience – Sarah Bernstein
  • Cathedral – Raymond Carver
  • The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever
  • Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • The U.S.A. Trilogy – Jon Dos Passos
  • Literary Theory: An Introduction – Terry Eagleton
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T. S. Eliot
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing – Douglas Glover
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  • Dubliners; Ulysses – James Joyce
  • The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems; Jesus’ Son; Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond – Denis Johnson
  • On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  • Panama – Thomas McGuane
  • Dance of the Happy Shades – Alice Munro
  • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle; Lolita; Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Cariboo Horses – Al Purdy

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