LBC Podcast #1: Edie Meidav

Nominator:  OGIC

Nominee:  Edie Meidav, Crawl Space (also featuring the amazing Scott Esposito!)

Subjects Discussed:  Dancing about architecture, Humbert Humbert, antiheroes, character names and wordplay, Nabokov, the memory of environment vs. its inevitable change, balancing secondary characters against a complex protagonist, the real-life inspiration for the wastrels, writing in sheds, various notions of "crawl space," cross-graphs, visual elements contained within text, on being edited at FSG, "throwing out crazy trees," discarded subplots, drowning babies, mining abandoned material vs. moving forward, and introducing loaded guns in the first act.

Backup Link:  (MP3)

(A co-production of the LBC and The Bat Segundo Show.)

Comments

[Dan Wickett]

Thanks to all three of you - that was very entertaining.