Vanessa Veselka is the guest. She’s the author of the novel Zazen, now available from Red Lemonade.
Says Publishers Weekly: “Veselka’s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations…[Zazen] makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness.”
Endless things to talk about here.
Topics of conversation include: mindless jobs, minimum wage, stripping, company loyalty, stock loyalty, the Atlantic, deadlines, query letters, Amazon, New Orleans, privilege, bartending, hitchhiking, Texas, Communism, Linda Ellerbee, Murphy Brown, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Greenwich Village, boarding school, Myers-Briggs, couch surfing, homelessness, hands, Thanksgiving, Europe, punk rock, Alaska, Seattle, flannel, Candlebox, songwriting, memoir, MFAs, and visceral life experience.
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Linda Ellerbee …. And so it goes…
I’m just now listening to Episode 38. I’m at work. Earbuds in. Total silence in the cube farm. Total silence as I try to hear the voice of God with you. Eyes are closed. Then in comes the sound effect. And I’m laughing so hard I feel like I could about shit my pants. And I’m trying to control my laughter as my co-workers look my way. I feel like my eyes are going to pop out of my head and my face is going to freeze this way forever — like some demented lunatic, cackling nonstop. Like Bartleby the Scrivener gone mad at the office. So I get up, shaking with laughter, and have to take an early lunch break because I’m completely caught off guard by that interjection. I had no idea that’s what God sounded like — other than the baritone voice. Thank you for that. That was a good laugh. And also, nice interview. Yes.
Glad I could be of service.