In this interview, we chat with Michael LaPointe about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, finding liberation in failure, and so much more.
Michael LaPointe is the author of The Creep, a novel published by Random House Canada. He has written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and he was a columnist with The Paris Review. His work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays, and he lives in Toronto.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Affliction; Continental Drift; Rule of the Bone; The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Play it as it Lays – Joan Didion
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Middlemarch – George Eliot
American Psycho; Less Than Zero; The Shards – Bret Easton Ellis
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat and Thin – Mary Gaitskill
In a Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; Sula – Toni Morrison
The Sorrow of War – Bảo Ninh
Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Voyage in the Dark – Jean Rhys
Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr.
Alice James: A Biography – Jean Strouse
The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens – Claire Tomalin
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