Unsound Methods

About Unsound Methods

A literary fiction podcast hosted by authors Jaimie Batchan and Lochlan Bloom. We talk to fellow writers of literary fiction about process, what makes fiction 'real' and the motivation to sit down in front of an empty page and make things up...

Publisher

Unsound Methods

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2018

Latest episode

11 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

67 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Dec 2024

   66: Sarah Bernstein

   Sarah Bernstein shares her unorthodox approach to sound design, revealing how unconventional methods can unlock new sonic possibilities and inspire creative breakthroughs.

2. 

   6 Nov 2024

   65: Ron Butlin

   Episode 65 with Ron Butlin

3. 

   26 Jun 2024

   64: Amina Cain

   This month's episode features our chat with novelist and short story writer Amina Cain, the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, published in 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374148379), and two collections of short stories, Creature (https://dorothyproject.com/book/amina-cains-creature/)and I Go To Some Hollow (http://www.lesfigues.com/book/i-go-to-some-hollow/). Her latest book, A Horse at Night: On Writing, came out in October of 2022 with Dorothy, a publishing project (https://dorothyproject.com/book/a-horse-at-night-on-writing/) in the US and Daunt Books (https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/a-horse-at-night/) in the UK. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, LA Times, Tate Etc. and other places. Amina has also co-curated literary events, such as When Does It or You Begin?, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video at Links Hall in Chicago; Both Sides and The Center, a summer festival of readings and performances enacting various levels of proximity, intimacy, and distance at the MAK Center/Schindler House in West Hollywood; and the Errata Salon, a talk/lecture series at Betalevel in LA’s Chinatown. Joining us towards the end of last year, Amina talked to us about writing in between teaching, using reading and looking at paintings/images to open things up, pushing through a false starts, and why she will always return to Marguerite Duras. You can find out more about Amina and her writing here: https://aminacain.com/ (https://aminacain.com/) - - - - Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods (https://twitter.com/UnsoundMethods) - @JaimieBatchan (https://twitter.com/JaimieBatchan) - @LochlanBloom (https://twitter.com/LochlanBloom) Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan (https://www.instagram.com/jaimie_batchan/) Or at jaimiebatchan.com (http://jaimiebatchan.com/)and lochlanbloom.com (http://lochlanbloom.com/) We have a store page on Bookshop, where you can find our books, as well as those of previous guests: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/unsoundmethods (https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/unsoundmethods) Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/ (https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/)

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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