Episode 172 — Ken Baumann

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2013

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ken Baumann is the guest. He is an actor, writer, and publisher. His new novel, Solip, is now available from Tyrant Books. HTML Giant says: "There is nothing on the back cover. A wall of black staring at you. No pull quotes or blurbs, and by the second page you realize why: because the book speaks for itself....I read this tiny book in one sitting in a coffee shop amazed by its power and had to go indoors to drown out the outside world to reread it and devour it properly....Early frontrunner for best book I’ve read this year, certainly the most memorable. I can’t remember reading anything quite like Solip....Solip is a twitter account from hell, a deranged patient babbling on a shrink’s couch....Concise yet brimming with ideas and thoughts and lists and fragments and run-ons and then it’s over and you’re left wondering what the fuck happened." Monologue topics: fiction, nonfiction, my novel, paralysis, creative quandaries, Errol Morris, Baltimore, The Black Guerilla Family, prison corruption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.2	You have found other people. You and I have a friend in common.
1:13.1	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:15.9	I think it's really beautiful.
1:17.5	Jesus, what a struggle, you know?
1:19.9	It was incredible.
1:21.1	You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.
1:24.3	And now here's your host, Brad Listing.
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