Introduction

Jesse Pearson is the founder and editor of apology magazine. This interview was recorded a few months back right when pathetic literature, the massive anthology that Eileen Miles edited, was just released. Pathetic literature includes writers as wide ranging as Franz Kafka, Samuel Delaney, Ariana Rheins,. Lori Weeks, Robert Volzer, Juna Barnes, Chris Kraus, Borhace. Who else? Valerie Solanus, Chantal Ackerman, C.A. Conrad, Dennis Cooper, James Skyler, Kathy Acker, Maggie Knell.