Zac J's guest appearances

Zac J

1storypod

Elizabeth Gilbert

Allie Rowbottom

Brad Phillips

Eileen Myles

Don Quixote

Andrew Sean Greer

Sheila Heti

Maggie Nelson

Chelsea Hodson

Karl Ove Knausgaard

William Faulkner

Scott McClanahan

Bud Smith

Nicolette Polek

Steve Anwyll

OwlTail

S. PHILLY — 1SP vets Nick, 27, and Zac, 27, on auto-fiction: what it is, who does it most compellingly, where it might be headed. Texts we consider are Walker Percy's 1961 philosophical novel The Moviegoer, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, and Karl Ove Knausgaard's novels, from his My Struggle Series to his recent/forthcoming seasonal quartet.  In music, we consider Sun Kil Moon's "Benji" (2014), Mount Erie's "A Crow Looked at Me" (2017), and Young Dolph's "Bulletproof" (2017).1SP: https://twitter.com/1storypodOn what I'm rdng rn: https://twitter.com/stconroe 1storyhaus.com

S. PHILLY — 1SP vets Nick, 27, and Zac, 27, on auto-fiction: what it is, who does it most compellingly, where it might be headed. Texts we consider are Walker Percy's 1961 philosophical novel The Moviegoer, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, and Karl Ove Knausgaard's novels, from his My Struggle Series to his recent/forthcoming seasonal quartet. In music, we consider Sun Kil Moon's "Benji" (2014), Mount Erie's "A Crow Looked at Me" (2017), and Young Dolph's "Bulletproof" (2017). 1SP: <a href="https://twitter.com/1storypod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/1storypod</a> On what I'm rdng rn: <a href="https://twitter.com/stconroe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/stconroe</a> <a href="http://1storyhaus.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1storyhaus.com</a>

18: Nick & Zac J. - AUTOFICTION (1960-Present) from Percy to Ferrante to Knausgaard

PHILADELPHIA — Zac, 26, lives in Philadelphia and works at an art gallery. He read The Possibility of an Island (tr. Gavin Bowd) in a week, finishing it hours before this conversation. I read it a couple months back, also fairly quickly. Michel Houellebecq (b. 1956), 61, is a novelist, filmmaker, and poet. He was born on the French island of Reunion, and lives in France. Houellebecq (Michel's grandmother's maiden name) had a child in 1980, shortly after graduating and marrying, before quickly "growing depressed," taking up poetry, and divorcing. His work has been described by NYT critic Michiko Kakutani as "deeply repugnant."

10: Zac J. – THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND (2005) by Michel Houellebecq

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA — Zac, 26, born in Denver, Colo., grew up in Houston, Texas, Sydney, Australia, and Hickory, N.C., and now fundraises at an art museum in Philadelphia. He first encountered the My Struggle series a few years back, upon finding Book One on the floor of his then-girlfriend’s apartment.  I first encountered My Struggle on the recent-release shelf in a bookstore, drawn by how out of place Knausgaard’s self-portrait looked on the cover. I initially scoffed at it. It wasn’t until I heard a podcast with Knausgaard (with novelist Jeffery Eugenides, by the New York Public Library) that I was compelled to start reading.Karl Ove Knausgaard, 48, was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1968. He began writing the series, which is 3,600 pages long, in 2008, six years after the death of his father.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA — Zac, 26, born in Denver, Colo., grew up in Houston, Texas, Sydney, Australia, and Hickory, N.C., and now fundraises at an art museum in Philadelphia. He first encountered the My Struggle series a few years back, upon finding Book One on the floor of his then-girlfriend’s apartment. I first encountered My Struggle on the recent-release shelf in a bookstore, drawn by how out of place Knausgaard’s self-portrait looked on the cover. I initially scoffed at it. It wasn’t until I heard a podcast with Knausgaard (with novelist Jeffery Eugenides, by the New York Public Library) that I was compelled to start reading. Karl Ove Knausgaard, 48, was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1968. He began writing the series, which is 3,600 pages long, in 2008, six years after the death of his father.

04: Zac J. – MY STRUGGLE: BOOK FIVE (2010) by Karl Ove Knausgaard